The English author and convert to Catholicism Graham Greene once penned a short story entitled “The Hint of an Explanation,” which is well worth the read, not least of all for Graham’s prose and haunting slow-burn of a narrative. The…
The church is shrinking, but it’s getting stronger as well. That is the paradox afoot on the American religious scene. The number of unchurched — “nones” and “dones” — are skyrocketing, while the remainers, the ones who stick it out,…
The United Methodist Church, one of the largest mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, voted Wednesday at its General Conference to repeal its prohibition against the officiation of same-sex weddings and end its ban on clergy who are “self-avowed…
Today’s women tend to struggle to wrap their minds around what it even means to be a woman — something Carrie Gress, author of The Anti-Mary Exposed and The End of Woman, believes can be fixed by turning to the…
As I write this, the procession of the recumbent Christ passes through the streets of the town that has welcomed me every summer, over in the northwest of Spain. It is the procession of the Holy Burial. The Divine Offices…
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose…
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has permitted, but not required, its ministers to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies since 2014. But that allowance is no longer sufficient for the progressive denomination; it now aims to mandate that future ministers affirm transgenderism and…
The surveys about mainline Protestantism just keep coming and coming. And — this might not be news to you — the results of those surveys keep getting worse and worse. Ryan Burge, religious pollster extraordinaire, chimed in with one last…
The Archdiocese of Washington is challenging the constitutionality of Maryland’s new Child Victims Act. The 2023 legislation took effect in October and lifts the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse, much akin to legislation approved in numerous…
