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…

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 about…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Is Assimilation Possible?

What initially piqued your interest in Islam?

RS: My grandparents, who were Christians, grew up in the last great Muslim empire, the Ottoman Empire. They were exiled from there and emigrated to the United States in 1919. When I was…

Practical Charity Unites a Man to Christ

The Holy Father hinted at the connection between sanctity and miracles in his homily at the canonization of Dr. Moscati: “Holiness is man’s union with God in the power of the Paschal Mystery of…

Key Element for Evangelization

Now there is an informative Catholic guidebook to this much-heralded and much-worried-about feature film.

A Guide to the Passion is the key element in a collaborative effort of a Catholic Internet portal and a Catholic publisher to seize the opportunity…