pope benedict xvi

Polls are good, but a crystal ball might be better.

A Russian nonprofit group, the St. Petersburg-based Coming Out, celebrated April 17 International Day of Silence by releasing a video “Break the silence,” which ends with “silence can break us / but…

A response to Andrea Jain

As Luke Coppen noted in a recent piece in The Spectator, Francis “has been spun as a left-liberal idol,” in the popular media. There is reason to believe, however, that conservatives are also…

There will be much debate surrounding today’s announcement of the normalization of relations between Cuba and the US, but I hope the voices of the Cuban and Cuban-American people will be heard. While…

In September of 2006, His Holiness Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sent seismic shockwaves through the terrain of Catholic-Muslim relations. In the midst of a characteristically erudite lecture on the…

How you view the no-consensus outcome of the just-concluded Extraordinary Synod on the Family very much depends on whether or not you are rooting for Pope Francis to change the Catholic Church. The…

Maya deacon ordinations signal sea change in the Church.

First question: does Brat intend to legislate his religious beliefs if elected? Second question: what are those beliefs exactly?

An essay ignored by the Vatican since the 70s, translated into english for the first time, shows that the Catholic Church can ordain women.