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Bangladesh’s first woman prime minister, Catholic school alumna, dies at 80

Begum Khaleda Zia, former Bangladesh prime minister and chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in 2010 at the Diploma Engineers Institute, Dhaka. | Credit: Mohammed Tawsif Salam, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dec 30, 2025 / 19:22 pm... [...]

My Top Ten Movies of 2025

Here are my choices for the ten best films of 2025. 1. Sketch – This is, I think, the best film of the year and the crowning achievement of the new Christian powerhouse film company Angel Studios. [...]

Setting the Record Straight

Catholic Tradition can’t be killed. It can be attacked. It can be subverted. It can even be ignored, as you and I know too well. 

His sister inspired him to become a priest

José María Alsina, today a priest in his native Spain, has always felt called to belong to Jesus. His family passed on their faith to him, along with Christian values, education, and culture. The call to become a priest came to him through several “voices,” but that of his little sister, Mercedes, was decisive. When Read More…

His sister inspired him to become a priest

Inside the cave where Revelation was written

The Cave of the Apocalypse lies along the road connecting Skala to Chóra on the Greek island of Patmos. For centuries, Christians have identified this small grotto as the place where John the Apostle received the visions recorded in the Book of Revelation. The site remains an active place of worship within the Greek Orthodox Read More…

Inside the cave where Revelation was written

A new book explains what really happened to Santa Teresa’s remains

The plenary chamber of the town hall of Alba de Tormes, Spain, where Teresa died in 1582, was filled to capacity on Sunday morning, December 21, as locals and visitors gathered for the presentation of Muero porque no muero (I Die Because I Do Not Die), a new book by Discalced Carmelite friar Manuel Diego Read More…

A new book explains what really happened to Santa Teresa’s remains

The Myth of “Vibes” Conversions: Why Gen Z Is Actually Starving for the Hard Pills of Dogma

Most Gen Z converts weren't compelled to conversion by liturgical lace and incense, they were escaping the desert of safe spaces that said they were okay, when it was clear they definitely were not.

Improving How Society Dresses—Dress Well, Don’t Moralize

Those who want social standards of dress raised above t-shirts and sweatpants will fail to influence more than a small handful through moralistic arguments.

Pope Leo XIV gives aid to Ukraine; urges end of war

Pope Leo XIV donated three trucks of aid to Ukraine as a “small gesture” of relief for the feast of Holy Family Sunday, Vatican News reported. The aid consisted of 1o0,000 food packets of chicken and vegetable soup, said Vatican News. The food was delivered to the Vatican by Samyang Foods, a Korean company, and Read More…

Pope Leo XIV gives aid to Ukraine; urges end of war

Is 2026 the Year of Something? On to the next holy year or jubilee

Wrapping up the Jubilee Year 2025, with its theme centered on hope (Pilgrims of Hope) such that it has been called the Year of Hope, has most of us asking: What’s next? There is already one clear answer to that question. The 2,000th anniversary of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus is coming soon-ish: in Read More…

Is 2026 the Year of Something? On to the next holy year or jubilee