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Richard John Neuhaus and the Priestly Vocation
Twenty years ago today, on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Richard John Neuhaus was ordained a Catholic priest. Cardinal John O’Connor ordained Father Neuhaus...
The Holy See’s Response to the Cloyne Report
The Holy See’s official “Response” to the Cloyne Report, released in Rome on September 3, 2011, marks a significant development in the sexual abuse crisis in Ireland. It has...
A Martyr in Parliament: The Honorable Shahbaz Bhatti (1968 – 2011)
The homily delivered at a St. Thomas More Society memorial Mass for assassinated Pakistani cabinet minister Shabaz Bhatti. The Mass was offered in the Sean O’Sullivan Chapel on March...
The Straight Lines of Providence
The homily from the Mass for the twentieth anniversary of the reception into the Catholic Church of Richard John Neuhaus. The genealogy of Jesus Christ is something of a...
The Legion and the National Catholic Register
The news two weeks ago concerning Fr. Marcial Maciel was devastating to members of the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi; it was heartbreaking to see my friends on...
Unsettling Canada
Unsettling Canada by Raymond J. De Souza For Canada’s social conservatives, the recent federal election offered cause for encouragement, cause for anxiety, and cause for alarm. That one election...
Two Popes
Twenty-five years as pope is no small thing. When John Paul II celebrates his papal jubilee this October 16, he will be only the third pope in history to...
