Robert George: Stand up to the woke bullying in America...

Why Catholic voters in four states could again decide the presidential election...
Clemente Lisi
The first six months of this year has produced a pandemic that has killed thousands of Americans followed by high rates of unemployment triggered by the coronavirus lockdowns. Add to that the fight for racial justice following the murder of George Floyd and the protests and civil unrest that followed and you can see how 2020 will be forever remembered as one of the toughest years in American history.

To understand this papacy, forget Rome — head to Lampedusa...
John Allen
There are certain place names so associated with a particular chapter in history that merely mentioning them conjures up a truckload of associations and emotions. Such is “Gettysburg,” “Dunkirk,” “Robben Island,” even “Woodstock” – and, increasingly, such is “Lampedusa,” as we mark the seventh anniversary of one of the briefest and yet most paradigmatic papal trips of all time.

What makes ships mysteriously slow down or even stop as they travel? It’s called the “dead-water phenomenon,” and here’s how it works...

We need Julia Greeley — a former slave in Missouri, and now a saint in the making...
R. Jared Staudt
Almost exactly 100 years ago, on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1918, a woman, a former slave, died in Denver. This apostle of the Sacred Heart, spreading devotion across the city, was the first lay Catholic to lie in state as hundreds visited her body to honor her works of charity. Friends had to help bury her, because she had given away her burial plot to a poor man.

Why didn’t the Spanish colonies in America become a single country like the United States did?

4 kinds of slavery the Civil War didn’t end: Slavery to passion, fashion, custom, and error...
Mark Langley
The bad news is that the Civil War did not put an end to slavery. Sure, the Civil War did end the apparent and visible slavery that made legal the ownership of human beings by other human beings, whereby the owners could wring their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces. And whatever one thinks about the causes of the North and the South, and the means employed, and the tremendous and appalling loss of life that ensued...

Cancel the liberal cancel culture, say 130 liberal intellectuals in a liberal magazine...

As hearts grow ever colder, Christians must double down on simple decency, common courtesy, and basic civility...
Jenny Uebbing
In what attention I’ve paid to recent news cycles, the dominant theme – the one thing that we still collectively agree on, one might be forgiven for thinking – is anger. Anger with causes both righteous and dubious. Anger that is justified and anger that is rooted in pure, spleen-venting malice. Anger that fuels the engines of progress and anger that feeds the devouring flames of destruction and death...

Sobering spiritual truths according to St. John of the Cross...
Msgr. Charles Pope
In today’s post I would like to ponder some hard and sobering spiritual truths, but ones that will set us free. In calling them “hard truths”, I mean that they are not the usual cozy bromides that many seek. They speak bluntly about the more irksome and difficult realities we face. If we come to accept them, though, they have a strange way of bringing serenity by getting us to focus us on the right things rather than spending our time chasing after false dreams.

I still grieve for England...

Catholic school teachers are “ministers,” Supreme Court rules in 7-2 decision...

Pope appoints Fr. Stephen Parkes, brother of St. Petersburg’s Bishop Gregory Parkes, new bishop of Savannah, Georgia...

More victims of attack under statue of St. Louis IX identified...

Abundant confessions and Eucharistic awe — A Christ-centered game plan for the Church after COVID ...
Tom Nash
Fifty years ago, my classmates and I at St. Mary of Redford Grade School in Detroit received the great blessings of our First Confession and First Holy Communion. My gratitude for these great gifts has only grown over the years. Learning that Jesus Christ offers us reconciliation through the merits of his Paschal Mystery, and also enables us to participate in and partake of that same Paschal Sacrifice at every Mass in receiving the Holy Eucharist...

Why Americans celebrate Christopher Columbus and ignore Amerigo Vespucci...

Christians shouldn’t treat other people as contemptible jokes, or add to all the ugliness in the world...

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