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A coordinated campaign by law enforcement officials, Hindu activists, and extremist politicians is deploying draconian anti-conversion laws to systematically target Christians across India, according to a new report published by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI). The EFI report follows national outrage over the arrests of two nuns who were falsely accused of human trafficking…
Recently, I wrote an article about the adulterous Coldplay couple caught on the kiss-cam, and I concluded my piece with some thoughts about the very public General Judgment that will occur when Christ returns to judge the living and the dead: Now, I expected that lukewarm or poorly catechized Catholics would be learning something new…
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV 22 July 2025 00120 VATICAN CITY Europe Most Holy Father, I address to you this heartfelt petition regarding an urgent and practically unprecedented problem that Your Holiness has inherited from the previous pontificate. It is one which I and many other Catholics believe lies at the very heart of the…
“You just have to be patient,” a priest told me not long ago. I knew it was true, but it didn’t make it much easier—I had been unceremoniously removed from a prestigious position with my employer, forced to upend my family’s life as we moved thousands of miles with only four days’ notice. It was…
While recently channel surfing on Sirius/XM radio, buzzing through the ’70s and ’80s rock stations, I caught a live New York City tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, who died two weeks ago at age 76. Ozzy lived a wild existence, more than mirrored by his music, not only as a solo “artist” (I don’t like that…
In many Catholic parishes and schools today, it has become common to designate specific “themes” for Mass. A Wednesday morning school Mass might revolve around a theme such as light, joy, kindness, or unity. Students and teachers are often asked to help prepare a “Liturgy Sheet,” complete with song choices, Scripture selections, and, of course,…
The above indictment is from Women: Icons of Christ, authored by Phyllis Zagano. This well-respected scholar is arguably the leading advocate for the ordination of women to the diaconate, an issue to which she has devoted her theological career. She was a member of the 2016 Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women…
The treasury of Holy Church’s sacred worship truly overflows with inexhaustible wealth, as the 20th-century commentator Pius Parsch reflects in The Church’s Year of Grace, dividing the Sundays after Pentecost into three stages: first, those that highlight the Lord’s miraculous healings pointing ultimately to the salvation of souls; second, from the 7th to the 14th…
Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1975, Dmitri Shostakovich, the celebrated Russian composer and pianist, passed away in Moscow. A figure of immense complexity, he “managed to navigate a difficult situation with great prudence and political astuteness.”[1] Born on September 25, 1906, in Saint Petersburg, Shostakovich came from a family of Polish Roman Catholic origin….
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Palestrina, the great composer of sacred polyphony, whose masterful compositions for the sacred liturgy have been described by Catholic musicologist Susan Treacy as “a cathedral in music.” Palestrina was so much the musical voice of the Catholic Reformation in the sixteenth century that he is…
