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Jean Vanier taught my family about becoming human and becoming holy
when we met my son max in 2011, my wife and i knew nothing about down’s syndrome. we knew only that we had adopted a beautiful baby boy, jus...
JD Flynn
Times Square ultrasound draws thousands
A live, 4D-ultrasound of a 36-week gestation baby was broadcast in Times Square on Saturday, as part of Focus on the Family’s “Alive in New ...
Catholic News Agency
The parish should be 'a home with open doors,' Francis tells Catholics in Bulgaria
the parish should be at the center of the community, a place where god’s presence is felt and hope and love are shared with the world, pope ...
Catholic News Agency
After harassing woman outside Planned Parenthood, Penn. lawmaker says Christians are 'Bible Bullies'
a pennsylvania lawmaker has said that pro-life activists and christians are bullies, after he faced criticism for a video he livestreamed, i...
Catholic News Agency
‘Death will certainly be something really beautiful’: an interview with Jean Vanier
this interview was first published in the february 1, 2002 edition of the catholic herald in the early 1960s a young philosophy teacher from...
Luke Coppen
Supreme Court justices must not give in to relativism
in the latest june/july print edition of first things, hadley arkes takes on the church’s best defenders on the supreme court. arkes argues ...
C C Pecknold
How to be a practising mystic
“i’m a practising mystic.” a woman said that in one of my classes some years ago and it raised lots of eyebrows. i was teaching a class in m...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Beehives and the meaning of baptism
last week, i was inspired by both the exsultet, sung by the deacon during the vigil of easter with its imagery of bees, and the survival of ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
From marriage to death, our rites are being reinvented
i am made aware that we are coming up to the wedding season by the visibility of the hen party. exactly when these parties – or pre-wedding ...
Mary Kenny
Life under ISIS: Raqqa's Christians tell their story
the churches of raqqa lie in ruins following the defeat of isis. but remarkably the city’s christian community has survived. before the syri...
Sam Sweeney
Why Spain's Catholic vote splits three ways
the spanish church wished “light and strength” to premier pedro sánchez after his socialist party took a strong lead in sunday’s election, a...
Jonathan Luxmoore
World News: From La Rioja to Lagos
washington dc project launches to tackle abuse crisis a new initiative has been launched at the catholic university of america with the goal...
Staff writers
The week in quotations
"pope francis is happy with benedict xvi’s profound analysis" cardinal müller says the popes agree on the abuse crisis first things "until t...
Staff writers
Glasgow parish 'shamefully' vandalized
police in glasgow are investigating vandalism committed monday at st. simon's parish, an attack the archdiocese has called 'shameful'. local...
Catholic News Agency
This Tolkien biopic is woefully unconvincing
what kind of man wrote the hobbit and the lord of the rings? what were his formative experiences? finnish director dome karukoski tries to a...
Fr Michael Ward
More than 1 per cent of deaths in Canada caused by euthanasia
over one per cent of all deaths last year in canada were the result of euthanasia, a new government report has revealed. the fourth interim ...
Catholic News Agency
How to forgive in the midst of genocide
plough, the publishing house of the bruderhof community, which organises the publication of books sympathetic to the evangelical christian e...
Francis Phillips
I'm proud that my students voted to block porn
porn has been ubiquitous all of my life. the supreme court’s 1969 decision in stanley vs georgia had essentially revoked state obscenity law...
C C Pecknold
Exploitation and the desire for parenthood
since at least the 1960s, we have been bombarded with information about overpopulation, and the phrase “unwanted pregnancy” has become part ...
Mary Kenny
Fr Schall: The man who launched a thousand libraries
the legendary georgetown professor fr james schall sj died peacefully last week, at the age of 91, surrounded by his family. he had retired ...
Gerald Russello
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