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The Augustine Bible:English Standard Version, Catholic Editionaugustine institute, 1,232 pages, $49.95 Of the making of ­Bibles, it seems, there is no end. When I was growing up in the...

Good commentary continues to be generated on the issue of priestly posture at Mass, stimulated by Cardinal Sarah’s appeal to priests to use the ad orientem posture beginning this...

Cardinal Robert Sarah’s address to the Sacra Liturgia conference a couple weeks ago created quite a stir. He pleaded with priests worldwide to return to offering the appropriate parts...

Björn Odendahl, an editor at Katholisch.de, writes the following in the course of commenting on the Pope’s plans for Africa in a piece entitled “The Romantic, Poor Church”: So also in...

The Catholic bishops of the United States have vowed to continue to resist the HHS Mandate, which forces Catholics and others to violate their consciences regarding grave issues of...

Thomas Pfau, the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University, has written an incisive evaluation of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation at The Immanent Frame . I...

This past weekend, the Diocese of Bismarck hosted THIRST , a eucharistic conference for the Year of Faith in support of the New Evangelization. Cardinal Dolan addressed the conference...

The normally gentle Ephraim Radner reviewed Candida Moss’ The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom in the May issue of First Things , smiting...

Today, July 25, marks the 45th anniversary of the promulgation of Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI. As many in the Catholic world had been expecting the Church to...

At the American Conservative , John Rodden and John Rossi present ” Not Hitler’s Pope: What history taught Pius XII about resisting tyrants ,” an efficient but substantive overview...

Early Friday morning, Catholic blogger and new media guru Brandon Vogt took the text of the papal encyclical Lumen Fidei from the Vatican website where it is available free...

Pope Francis’ first encyclical, Lumen Fidei (“The Light of Faith”), has been released, available online . The encyclical itself is relatively short, but those who wish to read a...

Damian Thompson is a British journalist , author , and traditionalist Catholic loyal to Rome. A keen observer of happenings in both the Catholic and Anglican, he’s written a...

At his weekly Angelus address, Pope Francis delivered some wonderful words on conscience today , using his predecessor’s radical decision to resign the papacy as an example, along with...

Larry Taunton, executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation , reports on the findings of a project involving interviewing college students belonging to Secular Student Alliances and Freethought Societies:...