Catholic Church

By Matthew E. Bunson, EWTN News - A century ago, on Oct. 25, the October Revolution brought the Bolsheviks — the Communists under Vladimir Lenin — to power in post-Czarist Russia. What followed was the first officially atheist state and one of the darkest eras in human history… radical leftist forces led by the Bolsheviks staged a largely bloodless coup d’état… Karl Marx had predicted… that the inevitable revolution of the workers would take place in the advanced industrialized Western European countries…

By Charles J. Chaput, For Philly.com - Truth is always a good thing. So it’s been odd to notice that the Inquirer has often seemed less committed to reporting the history, roots, scope, and intractability of chronic sexual-abuse problems in our public schools, institutions, and society at large — and even less interested in what the Church has done and is doing to deal with the problem.

CNA/EWTN News - “Let’s help these brothers and sisters with prayers; they need us. Also, pray fervently for peace amidst all of the violence which seems to be overwhelming our society. We must be lights in the darkness. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May God have mercy!”

By Brianna Heldt, National Catholic Register - Six years ago, my husband and I were received into the Catholic Church. It was, ironically, Reformation Sunday... Having been raised as Protestants—my husband a Lutheran, and I of the non-denominational variety—we found no small amount of humor in the timing. The day on which the Protestant world celebrates Martin Luther’s 95 Theses is now the day we remember our own conversion.