The Threat of Violent Jihadism: An Interview with Robert Spencer

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… Read More

Healing from Heaven: St. Joseph Moscati, M.D.

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… Read More

Book Review: A Guide to the Passion: 100 Questions about Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ

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… Read More

Canonized: Three Missionaries

Bishop Fulton Sheen raised millions for the missions as national director of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith. Yet in his book, Missions and the World Crisis (1963), he lamented the fact that not one Catholic university in… Read More

“The Ability to Look Honestly…”: An Interview with ALL President Judie Brown

American Life League is a coalition of educational, activist and charitable groups committed to “serving God by helping to build a society that respects and protects innocent human life from fertilization to natural death — without compromise, without exception, without… Read More

Apostle of Charity

The “Don Camillo” stories by Giovanni Guareschi tell of the clashes between the Catholic curate and the Communist mayor of a fictional Italian town. These charming fables reflect real social conflicts in early and mid-twentieth-century Italy.
The life of Blessed… Read More

Two New Polish Saints

On Sunday, May 18, 2003, Pope John Paul II canonized two new Polish Saints who served the Church during the early decades of the twentieth century: Jozef Sebastian Pelczar, Bishop of Przemysl from 1920 to 1924, and Mother Ursula Ledóchowska,… Read More

5 New Spanish Saints

Sixteenth-century Spain was a world power whose mighty navy expanded its commercial empire to newly discovered lands across the ocean. During the Siglo de oro (“Golden Century”) Spain also brought the Gospel to the Western Hemisphere and produced great saints… Read More

Being Not Afraid

No natural disaster caused all that carnage and ruin; the mind recoils to think that it was carefully orchestrated.
If they share the one true faith, the Kentucky farmer is no more a Christian for his serenity, nor is the… Read More

Ending the Death Penalty

Why revisit this issue now? The Pennsylvania bishops expressed their opposition to capital punishment back in a 1987 statement. In 1994, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops took the same stance in a pastoral message, “Confronting a Culture of Violence”,… Read More

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