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By Msgr. Charles Pope | There comes a time when something is so egregious and boldly sinful that it must be met with strong ecclesial and canonical penalties and remedies. We have certainly seen this...

By Peter Jesserer Smith | In 2009, Benedict XVI declared the Anglican patrimony was a “treasure to be shared” throughout the Universal Church and set up three ordinariates (akin to dioceses) directly...

By Father Raymond J. de Souza | That it happened so quickly and so smoothly does not make it any less remarkable. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the apostolic administrator of Washington, was not the...

By Kathy Schiffer | Life was bleak for people with leprosy at the Branch Hospital in Kakaako, Oahu, in the mid-1800s. Many were far advanced in the disease – with blinded eyes, parts of faces eaten...

By Fr. George Rutler | The nineteenth-century churchman John Henry Newman has shaped many of my views and how to apply them. With the credit of a second miracle to his intercession, it is likely that...

By Marcia Segelstein | In a recent piece for The Wall Street Journal called “When Your Daughter Defies Biology,” author Abigail Shrier described the plight of mothers whose daughters have come home...

By Joan Frawley Desmond | WASHINGTON — As the new year proceeds apace, an unprecedented crisis continues to roil the Church, stoking anger, cynicism and dread among the faithful and demoralizing...

By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA/EWTN News | ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis will visit Japan in November of this year. The Pope confirmed the timing of the upcoming trip during remarks to...