Catholic Church

By Robert Royal,  The Catholic Thing - Watching these events unfold made me recall from the misty corners of memory the time when I briefly wrote a “USCCB Watch” column in the early years of Crisis magazine. In the 1980s, Reagan was president, JPII was pope, and Margaret Thatcher was prime minister in England. And the bishops’ conference – then differently structured and badly listing to port...

By Fr. Edward Looney, Aleteia - Every now and again, I have the opportunity to travel and speak at conferences, sharing about Mary’s importance in the spiritual life. When I do so, I usually have to spend the night in a hotel room. One of the essentials I pack (or because I’m a priest, can make) is a small bottle of holy water... Why? Three words: Evil is real.

By Fr. George Rutler, National Catholic Register - Confusion has also muddled marriage. When marriage is refashioned into an oxymoronic “same-sex marriage,” along with ambiguity about procreation and the permanence of natural marriage, the social order loses interest in it altogether. Even among self-professed Catholics, whose population has increased in the last 40 years, there has been a 60 percent decrease in weddings.