By Father Raymond J. de Souza | That it happened so quickly and so smoothly does not make it any less remarkable. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the apostolic administrator of Washington, was not the...
By Kathy Schiffer | Life was bleak for people with leprosy at the Branch Hospital in Kakaako, Oahu, in the mid-1800s. Many were far advanced in the disease – with blinded eyes, parts of faces eaten...
By Fr. George Rutler | The nineteenth-century churchman John Henry Newman has shaped many of my views and how to apply them. With the credit of a second miracle to his intercession, it is likely that...
By Marcia Segelstein | In a recent piece for The Wall Street Journal called “When Your Daughter Defies Biology,” author Abigail Shrier described the plight of mothers whose daughters have come home...
By Joan Frawley Desmond | WASHINGTON — As the new year proceeds apace, an unprecedented crisis continues to roil the Church, stoking anger, cynicism and dread among the faithful and demoralizing...