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January 2024

January 22, 2024

Latin America’s colonial period was less Catholic

Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial...

January 10, 2024

Pope Francis called surrogacy ‘deplorable’

Surrogacy can exploit women, but others may choose to be involved for altruistic reasons. A...

January 03, 2024

100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university

Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted...

October 2023

October 04, 2023

Birds, Worms, Rabbits: Francis of Assisi Was Said To Have Loved Them All – But Today’s Pet Blessings On His Feast Day Might Have Seemed Strange To The 13th Century Saint

Medieval monastics were often discouraged from owning companion animals, which were viewed as a distraction,...

September 2023

September 13, 2023

The History of the Cross and Its Many Meanings Over The Centuries

Sept. 14 is the the Feast of the Holy Cross celebrated by many Catholics and...

August 2023

August 23, 2023

What the pope’s visit to Mongolia says about his priorities and how he is changing the Catholic Church

Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to meet the tiny Catholic community of Mongolia is drawing considerable...

February 2022

February 21, 2022

Why are some Roman Catholic saints called doctors of the church

Saints are recognized for exceptional virtue and faith. But some also are commemorated for their...

January 2022

January 29, 2022

Pope Benedict faulted over sex abuse claims: New report is just one chapter in his – and Catholic Church’s – fraught record

Pope Benedict XVI’s many years of wrestling with the abuse crisis highlight the Catholic Church’s...

January 27, 2022

What St. Thomas Aquinas can teach us about hope in times of despair

A scholar of democratic virtues explains why Dominican monk Thomas Aquinas’ thoughts on hope are...

January 24, 2022

Pope Benedict accused of mishandling sex abuse cases: 4 essential reads

A German report accused retired Pope Benedict XVI of mishandling several cases of sexual abuse...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

Controversy over Communion in the Catholic Church goes back some 2,000 years

Biden is not the first public figure to whom the Catholic Church wants to deny...

April 2021

April 22, 2021

How ‘complementarianism’ – the belief that God assigned specific gender roles – became part of evangelical doctrine

Complementarianism became central to evangelical belief in response to the feminist movement of the 1970s...

April 07, 2021

What can you do with unwanted holy cards and Grandma’s religious statues? Well, that depends

The mass production of religious items such as rosaries and holy cards poses a problem...

March 2021

March 10, 2021

US army chaplain Emil Kapaun advancing toward sainthood

In early Christianity, soldiers could be baptized only if they refused to kill other human...

March 04, 2021

Pope’s upcoming visit brings attention to the dwindling population of Christians in Iraq

The events that followed the 2003 US invasion of Iraq started a cycle of violence...

January 2021

January 06, 2021

Ready to try an old approach to a New Year’s resolution? The story of Saint Ignatius may provide some guidance

For many, New Year's resolutions do not last more than a few days or weeks....

November 2020

November 23, 2020

60 years after JFK, Biden as second Catholic president offers a refresh in church’s political role

The US Catholic Church is more diverse and more divided than it was in JFK's...

November 10, 2020

Who are patron saints and why do Catholics venerate them?

There could soon be a patron saint of the Internet, the latest in a long...

August 2020

August 04, 2020

75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vatican is providing moral guidance on nuclear weapons

As Pope Francis becomes the first pontiff in the nuclear era to call for total...