Few women loom as large as Elisabeth Elliot in the pantheon of American evangelical saints. The martyrdom of her missionary husband, Jim Elliot, and colleagues at the hands of the Ecuadorian Auca ...

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At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis speaks of “an episode in the life of St. Francis that shows his openness of heart, which knew no bounds and transcended ...

Last month, after a mysterious eighteen-month delay, the U.K. government finally published the 2023 abortion figures for England and Wales. When adding in the numbers for the rest of the U.K., the ...

The Synod of Bishops is currently congregating in Rome for a four-week meeting of the Synod on Synodality. A second session will follow in October 2024. The theme of “synodality” is a notion ...

During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Even though the course had no track record (and therefore no student evaluations), ...

Before London was a global city, it was just a city, and people lived there. Across its two-thousand-year history, London has always had a working class. In the sixteenth century, that class acquired ...

In the foreseeable future, China and the U.S. will be the two strongest countries in the world. . . . It will definitely be a win-win situation for your children in the future if they have both these ...

In his weekly catecheses on Vatican II, Pope Leo is now discussing Gaudium et Spes, one of the more controversial conciliar documents. Critics charged that, by revising its earlier condemnations of ...

The Second Vatican Council taught that bishops are not mere delegates of the pope, regional managers of an international operation headquartered in Rome. On the contrary, bishops have authority ...

William Lane Craig has recently caused some consternation by saying he does not confess the faith of the Nicene Creed. The reaction is understandable. Nicene orthodoxy, after all, is the faith ...