On November 10, Al Jazeera posted a breathtaking headline: “ISIS-linked attackers behead 50 people in northern Mozambique.” The subhead was equally horrifying: “Witnesses say the assailants herded victims onto a football pitch in the village of Muatide where the...
In the words of Jimmy Lai, “freedom has a price.” That’s why the Chinese media mogul and activist is leaning on his Catholic faith for support as he faces potential prison time and continues the fight for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong. Speaking at the Acton...
With the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops holding a virtual fall assembly, the bishops of Spain are also holding their fall gathering. On the agenda for the Spanish bishops are Europe’s rising populist currents, and a bill in Spain that threatens religious...
In that brief inter-mezzo over the summer between what turned out to be the first and second great surges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis held a series of appropriately socially distanced, “vir-tual” conversations with his premier English-language explicator...
The recent report detailing the Vatican’s response to the scan-dal surrounding ex-Cardinal Theo-dore McCarrick shows why it’s a mistake to canonize Popes (or anyone) quickly after their deaths. According to the Vatican report released, Pope John Paul II received...
