On Tuesday, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, archbishop of Boston and chairman of the Vatican’s sexual abuse commission, issued the following statement regarding the unfolding sex abuse scandal involving Cardinal Theodore McCarrick: “For the past...

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s imminent retirement is fueling speculation that a pro-life Catholic mother of seven could be Trump’s next pick for the high court. Last year, Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett, a law professor at the...

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the retired archbishop of Washington, D.C., was suspended from public ministry on Wednesday, after an allegation that he had sexually abused a minor was found to be credible.  According to a statement released by the...

When Reuters reported that Pope Francis had likened the now-routine practice of aborting children with potential birth defects to the Nazis’ campaign “to pursue the pureness of the race,” Facebook users 

Just weeks after a lopsided, groundbreaking vote struck down Ireland’s constitutional ban on legal abortion, the country’s Taoiseach signaled the broader moral and legal implications of this sea change in a once deeply Catholic nation. “It will...

A Jewish ophthalmologist I know is a leading specialist on a rare condition that can cause blindness, and it was that expertise that led him to the Catholic faith.  Over time, as scores of anxious patients came to him for final confirmation of...

Rumors are flying that Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81, will tender his resignation by summer. The closely watched “swing” vote on the ideologically divided high court, Kennedy is the subject of furious speculation by court watchers.  Republicans...

HONOLULU—The Kilauea volcano eruption on Hawaii’s “Big Island” has forced the evacuation of 10,000 people and destroyed more than 20 homes over the past four days. The major volcanic eruption &

July 26, 2018, marks the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae, but few expect the occasion to prompt celebrations in Rome. A papal commission has quietly undertaken a “historical-critical investigation” of the bitter...

Once there was a lost, fatherless boy named Spencer Stone, who worried his mother and antagonized his teacher. Spencer liked to stare out the window during math class. His teacher recommended ADD meds.   Instead, his mother moves her son to a...