On the feast of Saint Bernard August 20 I am unlikely to celebrate his preaching of the Second Crusade Although he was ardent in fighting schisms and heresies in the church they were schisms and heresies so long now out of date that they do not much interest us today But he is also remembered

A dangerous book from Richard G. Lee

Some breaking news from the Vatican today via Reuters The Vatican has hired an American journalist from the Fox News Network and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media a senior Church source said on Saturday Greg Burke Fox s Rome-based

In our church it pays more to rebel than to faithfully question The Vatican under Benedict XVI is doing somersaults to get the excommunicated anti-semitic Lefebvrists back into the church rsquo s tent First the Vatican said that the Society of St Pius X SSPX had to agree to accept the teach

On the same day that the U S C C B and the C D F brought the hammer down on U S women religious because of their controversial taste in conference speakers radical feminism and alleged lack of sufficient enthusiasm for the church s teaching on abortion women s ordination and homosexuality on

An ordinary Sunday morning. I decide to go to a church that celebrates the Latin Mass every Sunday.

One man's battle against the Inquisition

A few years ago I was at an awards dinner in New York City nbsp From across the room I happened to see John Cardinal Foley the longtime nbsp head of the Vatican s Pontifical Council for Social Communications nbsp Foley had just been named a cardinal after many years of being according to Vati

As the holder of the McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence at Princeton University and the founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, is well known for his intellectual rigor and dedication to politics. One of the nation’s leading conservative thinkers, Mr.