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'Careless words cost lives' - reflections on recent statements from the Pontifical Academy for Life

a number of news outlets have picked up the story that archbishop vincenzo paglia, president of the pontifical academy for life, has appeare...

David Albert Jones

DeSantis is right about the death penalty - in some cases it can be morally justified

catholic organisations have called a new florida law that ends the unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing “stunning” and a “...

What life is really like for Ukraine's children and youth

(in the cellar of a kyiv kindergarten, children take shelter during an air raid | genya savilov / afp via getty) in my twenty-five years as ...

Fauré's Requiem – Facing death through music

michael white praises a production of fauré’s requiem accompanied by sky burial, and a powerful opera about a nun visiting death row. gabrie...

Franz Wright and the cleansing truth of the Resurrection

nick ripatrazone considers the deep, spiritually introspective words of an award-winning poet who worked with grieving children. in arlingto...

Nick Ripatrazone

Long-lost chapter of Bible discovered

a long-lost chapter of biblical text has been discovered nearly 1,500 years after it was initially written. according to the study published...

Something for everyone: there is unity in the diversity of the Church’s rites

unexpectedly, our american brothers and sisters who have up to now attended the traditional latin mass (tlm) have been in the news a lot lat...

An American revisits London as a Catholic

in 1841, john henry newman wrote to a catholic acquaintance: “i do not fear that you will succeed among us; you will not supplant our church...

Andrew Petiprin

It would have been better if Summorum Pontificum had been left alone

on february 21, the dicastery for divine worship and the discipline of the sacraments, headed by prefect cardinal arthur roche, issued a res...

USCCB doctrinal note prohibiting transgender procedures is a welcome intervention

the doctrinal committee of the united states conference of catholic bishops (usccb) issued on 20 march a 14-page firm doctrinal note on the ...