This year’s March for Life, the 49th, will be different...
George Weigel
The annual March for Life in Washington began in 1974 — and it’s hard to think of a more admirable or consistent public witness to the dignity of the human person being given for so many years by so many people of all races, religions, and social classes. The March has taken place in fair weather and foul. Senior public officials have addressed it; others have assiduously (or contemptuously) ignored it...

Vigil Mass for Life: ‘Every Human Being, at Every Stage of Life, Should Be Treated With Respect’...

Vatican Makes It Official: St. Irenaeus to Be Declared a Doctor of the Church ...

How Stalin’s Russia-Ukraine ‘Sobor’ applies to China’s ‘Sinicization’...
Fr. Raymond de Souza
The Winter Olympics in China are about to open, a welcome propaganda exercise for an authoritarian regime. Eight years ago at Sochi 2014, Vladimir Putin took a vainglorious turn on the world stage, promising a return to imperial glory for the hungry Russian bear. As soon as the Olympic torch was extinguished, Putin invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea...

Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto...
Jordan Peterson
I recently resigned from my position as full tenured professor at the University of Toronto. I am now professor emeritus, and before I turned sixty. Emeritus is generally a designation reserved for superannuated faculty, albeit those who had served their term with some distinction. I had envisioned teaching and researching at the U of T...

King Canute the Great, the "dumb, arrogant" king who thought he could command the tides, was actually a devout and humble Christian...
Sean Fitzpatrick
Canute the Great of Denmark was revered during his life for being a king of kings. He was a conqueror and a Christian, but in reverse order: a Christian first and a king second. There is an old tale of him that the statesmen of our day would do well to heed regarding the place of princes in the tide of time. Canute lived in the eleventh century...

Will Catholic universities survive the upheaval in higher education? The next 10 years will tell...
Charles Camosy
This past fall, I had the opportunity to debate the philosopher Peter Singer about the moral status of the prenatal child. The debate took place at Princeton University in front of hundreds of undergraduates who are enrolled in his massive course on practical ethics. It offered me an opportunity to make the case for prenatal justice...

The USPS website to get four free COVID tests quietly went online a day early. If you want to beat the rush, here’s how to do it...

Why the Tonga volcanic eruption was so violent, and what to expect next...

Cana was a cosmic wedding feast...
Tom Neal
Sunday’s readings for Holy Mass were the end of a trio of Sunday “epiphanies” — the first an epiphany of Christ revealed to the pagan Magi; the second an epiphany of the mystery of the Trinity over the Jordan river at Christ’s baptism as the Father’s voice thundered over his Son and the Spirit descended as a dove; and a third epiphany of Jesus’ eucharistic water-to-wine sign at Cana’s wedding feast that revealed his mystic identity as a Bridegroom...

Pope to confer new lay ministries (catechist, lector, acolyte) for first time in St. Peter’s Basilica this Sunday...

Billie Eilish is right: Porn is inflicting serious harm on America's children...

Will this year’s March for Life be the last?
Kathryn Jean Lopez
This year may be the last January March for Life. If you’ve never been to the March for Life, it’s a sight to behold. High-school and college students descend on the nation’s capital. There’s always a big showing from North Dakota thanks to the University of Mary in Bismarck — including this year. They actually returned to lead the march one year after an epic 24-hour standstill in buses caught in a blizzard on the way home from the march in 2016...

‘Savage wolves’: Patriarch of Alexandria denounces actions of Russian Orthodox Church in Africa...

Pope Francis Asks Catholics to Offer Their Sufferings for Christian Unity...

Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno: ‘Trust the science’ is off-putting and does not convince the unconvinced ...

Cardinal Sarah is right: ‘The silence of everyday life is an indispensable condition for living with others’...

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