In my previous post, “Why the Catholic Church Defined Marriage,” I noted that the Roman pagan world, into which the Church was born, had monogamy, but not the Christian understanding of monogamy—and ...

More than 4,000 people gathered in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall to hear Pope Benedict XVI deliver his continuing series of teachings on St. Paul, which today focused on the Apostle’s teaching about ...

I'm a sixteen year old girl [. . .] For a few years I very much wanted to be a cloistered nun, and read many works and practiced some of the spirituality of different orders. However, for a while now ...

The Church as the Bride of Christ in Magisterial Teaching from Leo XIII to John Paul IIAndrew W. Lichtenwalner, Ph.D.Director: Msgr. Paul McPartlan, S.T.L., D.Phil.The image of the Church as the Bride ...

“Is that wedding music I hear” was the opening line of a Top 40 gospel song a few years ago. “There’s a heavenly preparation for the celebration …,” the song goes on, adding that “The bride is adorned ...

LYNDALL BERGER, at sixteen, wrote to her parents for permission to be confirmed. “Are you mad?” Sidney’s gaze was a pair of outspread arms, stopping his wife short whichever way she might turn. “Well, ...

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church. If the Bible is the most-published book in ...

HBO’s new true crime docuseries Pray, Obey, Kill delves into the 2004 murder of Alexandra Fossmo. Her nanny Sara Svensson confessed to the crime, claiming she’d acted on behalf of anonymous texts she ...

This year’s Election has been like no other. There has been so much hype and importance placed on who should be chosen as the best candidate; especially for the office of United States President. Over ...

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