Vianney: Portrait of a True Pastor

To foster a greater awareness of and more active participation in the Year of the Priest, Saint Luke Productions is touring the United States with a new drama, Vianney, depicting the life and ministry of the Curé of Ars, the… Read More

Vianney: Portrait of a True Pastor

To foster a greater awareness of and more active participation in the Year of the Priest, Saint Luke Productions is touring the United States with a new drama, Vianney, depicting the life and ministry of the Curé of Ars, the… Read More

The Magi and the Star

During a 2007 BBC radio interview, the archbishop of Canterbury deconstructed elements of the Nativity story. "Stars simply don’t behave like that," Rowan Williams said. Asked about the existence of three wise men, he replied, "It works quite well as… Read More

Book Review: Christians in China

St. Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missionary to India and Japan, famously died on an island near Macao before reaching the mainland of China.  Overland trade routes, though, had brought Christian missionaries from the Syrian Church to the imperial city of… Read More

Memoir by Clarence Thomas Honors Those who Shaped Him

The journey of Clarence Thomas from a childhood spent in poverty in rural Georgia to his appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States is a remarkable American success story. Yet his My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir is less… Read More

A Preamble to Hope

Vice President Biden, Senator McCain and Governor Palin hope that their sons will return safely from military deployment overseas, although they still disagree, as they did on the campaign trail, about how to prosecute the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.… Read More

Pro-Life Activism — Adapting and Thriving

The number one cause of death in the United States is abortion.  Planned Parenthood expects and receives one third of its billion-dollar annual budget from taxpayer funding.  Radically pro-abortion politicians now control the executive and legislative branches of the federal… Read More

Introducing Pope Benedict XVI

In His mercy God picked an ethics professor to be the last pope of the tumultuous twentieth century. Now Divine Providence has decreed that a former professor of theology will shepherd the Church as the first new pope of the… Read More

A Constitution for the People of God

Over the summer holidays, tourists to the City of Philadelphia, the “cradle of American liberty,” thronged to a new interactive museum which is dedicated to the 215-year-old Constitution that established the form of our national government and defined the rights… Read More

Imperial Peacemaker

The last Catholic emperor in Europe was compelled to withdraw from the exercise of his royal authority after the calamitous “Great War” (World War I). His internal exile to one of his woodland estates was not enough for the leaders… Read More

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