People do not have the time or money or energy to be angry at popes or angry at people who are angry at popes.
Catholic Identity
Posted inFaith, Last Take
What’s the answer to millennial fears? Trusting Jesus.
The closer you are to Christ, the more confidently you can trust your instincts.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
How Flannery O’Connor found her art—and her God—in letters
Letter writing is a genre O’Connor would master after she was diagnosed with lupus and exiled to her mother’s farm.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
What makes a journal of opinion?
Why we publish opinions you probably won’t agree with.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The tragedy of Joyce Kilmer, the Catholic poet killed in World War I
The celebrated writer is best known for his 1913 poem “Trees.”
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How “Humanae Vitae” helped one nun find her feminist voice
So what does it matter what a celibate woman thinks about contraception?
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The restless soul of Anthony Burgess
Though ‘lapsed,’ the prolific author was obsessed with the church.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When “Catholic guilt” gets in the way of Catholic faith
Taken to the extreme, ‘Catholic guilt’ can become an obsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as scrupulosity.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Duterte says he’ll curb tirades, then tells bishops not to criticize him
Outspoken Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is to curb his tirades against the Catholic Church after agreeing to a moratorium on statements deriding priests and bishops.
Posted inFaith, News
Encuentro process aims to identify, train 20,000 Hispanics to be leaders
Alicia Carrillo is one of the 20,000 new Hispanic Catholic ministry leaders that the National Fifth Encuentro of Hispanic Latino Ministry process aims to identify and train.