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America once taught kids to brush off insults with resilience. But calling words “violence” opened the door to real bloodshed in Orem, Utah. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” If we let this moment [...]

The pre-Vatican II Church created the potency for the Novus Ordo Missae. --- After years of study and prayer and penance, I came into communion with Rome in 2013 after five years in the Orthodox Churches – Coptic and Antiochian mostly [...]

New analysis from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) pushes back against abortion advocates’ claim that Planned Parenthood is “irreplaceable” and that alternative providers cannot absorb its entire Medicaid client base. The paper shows even without the nation’s largest abortion chain, women across [...]

cna --- EWTN News in Depth Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. The center will be directed by Benedictine College Professor of Theology and Bioethics Mariele Courtois, who is also a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education’s research group on artificial [...]

cna --- Carrington Tatum Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and a vocal evangelical Christian who was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025, speaks at an event in Texas in 2018. Throughout his career, Kirk encouraged young people to get married [...]

cna --- Courtesy photo Bishop Iyad Twal, auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchal Diocese of Jerusalem of the Latins for Jordan. In Rome for a formation course for new bishops, the auxiliary bishop told the pontifical news agency Fides that what happened in Doha [...]

interview --- Isabel Brown Catholic podcaster welcomes challenging conversations, including on her new [...]

Growing up, I was not educated by nuns, raised by particularly stern parents, or compelled to commit to memory the collected works of Emily Post. Even so, I knew that a gentleman ought to open a door for a [...]

Two church shootings, a decade apart, received strikingly different treatment from America’s corporate media. The first occurred in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. The second took place in Minneapolis just last week. On June 18, 2015, CBS News reported: A white [...]

Recently while visiting friends in another state I had a chance to attend a men's group at a small charismatic church, which for someone who has spent nearly 20 years in the Presbyterian Church in America is an unusual [...]