How the Ancient Christians Can Give You Hope and Teach You to Spread the Faith...
K.V. Turley
In times like these, it’s easy to despair about evangelization in the modern world. But a new Ignatius Press book by Mike Aquilina, Rabbles, Riots, and Ruins: Twelve Ancient Cities and How They Were Evangelized, not only offers some much-needed hope when thinking about evangelizing today’s culture but also serves as a guide on how to go about it. The Register caught up with the book’s author at his home in Pittsburgh and asked if Christian hope can persist amid the despair of modern Western cities.

Kamala Harris’ Record on Catholic Issues: What You Need to Know...

Vatican failed to reveal Ireland’s Bishop Eamonn Casey suspended due to child abuse allegations...

Here Are 5 Ways Father Mike Schmitz Says Catholics Can Be Better Evangelizers...

J.D. Vance is a Catholic ‘post-liberal.’ Here’s what that means — and why it matters...
Jonathan Liedl
J.D. Vance is an election away from becoming the first Catholic vice president from the Republican Party. But the Ohio senator, who is running alongside Donald Trump on the GOP ticket, is not your typical Catholic conservative — at least not the kind that has been the norm in American politics over the past half-century.

The Congress, the Olympics, and Cocaine Sharks...
J.D. Flynn
Today is the 16th Wednesday in Ordinary Time, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. If you’re not sure why you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post on Wednesday, well, I sent you a note about it yesterday. But the long and short of it is that Ed’s on vacation this week, I’ll be on vacation next week, and so we’re doing things a bit differently to adjust to being short-staffed...

God’s Providential Plan for Us Embraces Everything We Do — Even Politics...
Russell Shaw
A chorus of populist theologizing greeted the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Much of it was along the lines of “Considering that the shot missed killing him by only a couple of inches, God must have been looking out for him.” I fully agree. God certainly was looking out for the former president. So what else might we say about what happened? Although pushing too hard to explain God’s ways can be presumptuous...

Here’s the Early 20th-Century Catholic Modernist Crisis in a Nutshell...

Newly opened Vatican archives shed light on Maciel and Legionaries of Christ; Pius XII was planning crackdown before 1958 death...

Why aren’t there solar-powered cars?

Bread Left Over: A Reflection on the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time...
Scott Hahn
Today’s liturgy brings together several strands of Old Testament expectation to reveal Jesus as Israel’s promised Messiah and King, the Lord who comes to feed His people. Notice the parallels between today’s Gospel and First Reading. Both Elisha and Jesus face a crowd of hungry people with only a few “barley” loaves. We hear similar words about how impossible it will be to feed the crowd with so little...

National Eucharistic Congress Ends With Prayer for ‘New Pentecost’ for U.S. Church...

The Knights Got It Right With Marko Rupnik’s Art...
Shannon Mullen
The opaque fabric will rest on the chapel walls of the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., like a dressing on a wound. It’s a fitting image, since the artwork beneath that material has, for many, become a symbol of grave harm — in what ought to be places of hope and healing. The announcement July 11 that the Knights of Columbus will, for the time being...

Was St. Mary Magdalene a Former Prostitute?
Clement Harrold
If anything can rightly be said about St. Mary Magdalene, it is that she remains a mysterious and oftentimes elusive figure. Over the centuries, her identity has been debated and disputed endlessly, with the result that today many Catholics are left feeling very confused. What exactly do we know about her on the basis of the Gospels? And was she a reformed prostitute?

What to Do When Catholic Teaching Brings Marital Tension...

4 Notable Christian Dimensions of the Trump Assassination Attempt...

National Eucharistic Congress Begins in Indianapolis: ‘We Did This for You, Lord’...