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Fr. Roderick O’Brien, a retired priest in the Archdiocese of Adelaide, Australia, believes the life of a victim of sexual abuse in the 1940s needs to be known. He hopes one day she will be declared a saint. He was speaking about Jan Ruff-O’Herne, a Catholic woman who was sexually abused during the Japanese occupation Read More…

Could this Australian survivor become a canonized saint?

While many are wrapping up Christmas celebrations on December 25, Catholics continue to celebrate and rejoice until the feast of the Epiphany on January 6 — or even until the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas) on February 2.  Then it’s back to the humdrum of ordinary life. Much of the world is just focused on Read More…

Louisiana’s little known “extra” holiday season

The North American country is known for being a global leader in suicide deaths. [...]

From misuse to abuse, the time of blind giving to a bishop's Annual Appeal is over.

Educators need to entice reading, and kicking the classics to the curb won’t help.

Joseph Pearce is the author of numerous books, including biographies of G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, William Shakespeare, and more, and is the editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series. He has written books about literature, including Literature: What [...]

February marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month being commemorated in the U.S. [...]

The restored fresco in an ancient church in Rome sparked controversy after one of the angels depicted in the restoration bore a striking resemblance to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. [...]

U.S. bishops’ conference president Archbishop Paul Coakley called for keeping limitations of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which is set to expire on Feb. 5. [...]

On February 4, the Discalced Carmelites and the dioceses of Avignon and Rodez, France, observe the feast of a relatively new Blessed of the Church, Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD. The future Blessed [...]