4 questions about your worldview: Why is there something rather than nothing? What's gone wrong in the world? Is there any hope? Where is all this headed?

Don’t accuse pro-lifers of ignoring women’s health just because we are opposed to killing babies in the womb. That’s just foolishness...
Rick Becker
The other day, I posted a short piece by Patrick Kelly from the Knights of Columbus that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The piece was timed to coincide with weekend Roe v. Wade commemorations, and it celebrated the magnificent contributions pregnancy resource centers have made toward promoting life and supporting pregnant women over the years – a compassionate...

Science confirms something the saints have always known: Reading books (not the internet) will help you to pray...
Jason Craig
It is fully accepted that junk food tastes good but isn’t good. Its bodily effects may teeter into immorality when we consider how it harms our health, and how preserving our health for the sake of others is no small matter. Fat fathers (and I’m not lightweight here) deal with that nagging realization that if they were to face death due to being overweight it would not be light on their conscience – especially if they could have just cut out the junk and live longer...

I pray that I will stop listening whenever it is time to preach Christ and Him crucified...
Jeff Mirus
Sorry, my cork has just popped — after reading Pope Francis’ insistence that we “learn to listen” in his statement for World Communications Day. My cork has popped because Pope Francis himself has never given the slightest evidence of listening to those throughout the Church who have pleaded and prayed that he would help the Church to combat the infection of worldly values in her highest offices...

This town in southern Spain has appeared in ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ and 170 other movie Westerns...

Driving the Dempster Highway, Canada’s toughest road...

U.S. Seminaries Grapple With Secret Transgender Applicants, Falsified Sacramental Records...

‘A Direct Attack’: Knights of Malta Delegate Locked out of Order’s Constitutional Committee...

Episcopal beats, a papal “error,” and praying for peace...
Ed Condon
This morning, the daily bollettino of Holy See Press Office included some news for New York, with the announcement that Pope Francis has appointed two new auxiliary bishops for the archdiocese, both native sons of the city. Both are priests currently serving as pastors in the archdiocese. Msgr. John Bonnici is a NAC graduate with a doctorate from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family...

The conversion of St. Paul...
John Grondelski
If anybody wonders how much Christianity has shaped our culture, just consider the phrase about “being knocked off your high horse.” It means that somebody who was acting haughtily, among the high and mighty, found himself dethroned from that position. One source suggests that the phrase dates, at least in English, from the late 14th century...

NYC Pro-Abortion Activists Curse at Churchgoers, Beam ‘God Loves Abortion’ Onto St. Patrick's Cathedral...

Pope Francis was right about pets and kids...

Benedict XVI Confirms He Attended Disputed 1980 Meeting in Munich...

God has an announcement to make: The days of exile are over!...
Tom Hoopes
The days of waiting are done. He is here, among us, ready to do the things he promised he would do — mighty deeds he will do for us and through us. Sunday’s Gospel reading is a supreme moment in human history, and the Church gives us a huge hint as to how we should receive it. Jesus, the incarnate God, bursts onto the world stage in a number of dramatic entrances...

How to literally read Scripture literally...
Joe Heschmeyer
One of the most common questions about biblical interpretation is how much of the Bible ought to be taken “literally.” That’s a tricky question to answer, because the word literal actually has two distinct (but related) meanings. When the Catechism of the Catholic Church talks about the literal sense of Scripture, it’s referring to “the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis...

Sex, marriage and babies are now topics too hot for preachers to handle?

“Catholics” for choice, marchers for life, and how to sabotage a synod...