In 1891, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was received into the Catholic Church. She was forty years old. Within a few years of her conversion she conceived a heroic ministry to destitute cancer patients at a time when cancer was believed to be contagious. She . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholic Ireland, as we knew it, has fallen. Continue Reading »
On this episode, Charles McElwee joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss the decline of Catholicism in struggling Rust Belt communities—and attempts to revive Rust Belt parishes. Continue Reading »
Ours is a Catholic country, not because of what we have done there, but because there has been prepared a place for God to do something. Continue Reading »
The highest judicial authority in Australia will review the Cardinal George Pell case in 2020. Continue Reading »
Fifty years ago, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with the universal implementation of the revised Roman Rite of the Mass. The liturgy wars have not abated since. Continue Reading »
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a meditation on the notion of culpability carried without the possibility of absolution.
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Archbishop Charles Chaput rose to decry any suggestion that the American bishops are at odds with Pope Francis at last week’s meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Continue Reading »
Over the 50-plus years of its existence, no one has figured out how to make the Synod of Bishops really work. Continue Reading »
Westminster’s sidelining of the socially conservative DUP could lead to the rise of a well-established terrorist organization, with an ideology shot through with social conservatism. Continue Reading »
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