Papal Kudos for the Fourth Estate?

Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI's insistence that the "greatest persecution of the Church comes not from her enemies without but arises from sin within the Church," is hardly a ringing endorsement of recent press coverage.  [Full Story]

Israel: A Normal Country

Posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010
The Friends of Israel Initiative has come together to encourage men and women of goodwill to reconsider their attitudes toward the Jewish state. It is in our own best interests that an increasingly jaded relationship between Israel and many of the world's other liberal democracies is rescued and reinvigorated before it is too late for us all.  [Full Story]

World Cup Blues

Posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Not everyone is passionately interested in the 2010 World Cup.  [Full Story]

Catholic revival in Europe?

Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Have early reports of Christianity's death in Europe been greatly exaggerated? Perhaps. We shall see.  [Full Story]

Deep Catholicism

Posted: Wednesday, June 23, 2010
In Criticizing the Critics: Catholic Apologias for Today (Family Publications), Father Aidan Nichols, O.P. makes a compelling case for Catholicism-in-full as an alternative to "Catholic Lite."  [Full Story]

Courage in Quebec

Posted: Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the archbishop of Quebec City has recently shown a willingness to confront the increasingly aggressive secularism of the North Atlantic world with reason, conviction, and courage.  [Full Story]

Operation Let the Fire Fall

Posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
"Operation Let the Fire Fall" provides quality liturgical music and portable sound systems -- free of charge -- to Catholics serving in the armed forces in an effort to bolster the liturgical life of our soldiers in the face of a shortage of Catholic Military Chaplains.  [Full Story]

Vatican Time Warp
The newsmagazine launches a snide attack on the Pope.
Posted: Friday, June 4, 2010
Time's poorly sourced and cheesily titled cover story, "Why Being Pope Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry," is long on adolescent snark, but regrettably short on substance or meaningful analysis.  [Full Story]

Trouble For the Church, and Democracy, In Ukraine

Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2010
The new, pro-Kremlin government of Ukraine is undoing the gains of the Orange Revolution and driving the country closer to its former master to the east, with very grave consequences for ecumenism, religious freedom, and democracy itself.  [Full Story]

An Immigration Debate Primer

Posted: Wednesday, May 26, 2010
A few common sense considerations, courtesy of Catholic social doctrine, can bring some badly needed sanity to an immigration debate much given to bumper-sticker politics.  [Full Story]