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Have Christians taken over DC? A Netflix documentary thinks so

as netflix originals’ the family tells it, the national prayer breakfast held annually in washington, dc, is the brainchild of a decades-old...

The Church used to have a powerful economic voice. What went wrong?

one hundred years ago, the national catholic war council, the predecessor of today’s us conference of catholic bishops, issued a “program fo...

Matthew Schmitz

Don't be afraid of Thomism

modern theologians, especially in the post-war period, often spoke as though the catholic church would have to change in order to maintain r...

Habemus App-am! Duolingo has finally launched a Latin course

"of course, no one ever actually spoke latin," a particularly stupid – and incompetent – latin teacher once told a friend of mine. the teach...

Diary: The radio presenter who makes the early hours bearable

since the brexit vote i’ve found that lbc talk radio has everything that refugees from the bbc’s boring radio 4 today programme could want. ...

A shaman, an assisted suicide, and a headache for Seattle archdiocese

between the invented “community statement” a portland parish appended to the creed we heard about last month, and the fact that a self-ident...

World news: from Little Rock to Knock

richmond, virginia appointee resigns over anti-catholic remarks a new appointee to the virginia state council on women’s issues has resigned...

The week in quotations

"these purported apparitions, messages and miracles are, in fact, a fabrication" bishop michael olson of fort worth, texas, on alleged appar...

Meanwhile: Pope gets stuck in elevator

thousands waited anxiously for pope francis to appear at the window of the apostolic palace to say the angelus on sunday. when he arrived, s...

The best of the web: Stalin's Catholic daughter

how stalin’s daughter became a catholic at aleteia, john burger observed that “the importance of grandparents in one’s life cannot be undere...