Father Robert J. McTeigue, S.J., is a priest in the Eastern Province of the Society of Jesus. He hosts and produces the radio show, “The Catholic Current” through The Station of the Cross and the Catholic Radio app. He is the author of many works including his latest book, Real Philosophy for Real People: Tools for Truthful Living. He is currently a member of the National Ethics Board of the Catholic Medical Association. Father McTeigue holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Catholic University of America and specializes in metaphysics, natural theology, and ethics. These are some lenses through which to read …
Italy’s ‘Anti-Homophobia’ Law: Vatican Request Sparks Church-State Debate
In a two-page letter leaked to the press this week, the Vatican Secretariat of State raised concerns that parts of the law, as currently written, are too vague and could lead to violations of freedoms of the Catholic Church. ROME —From the prime minister to a famous rapper, many Italians have weighed in on the Vatican’s recent intervention in a possible new “anti-homophobia” law in Italy. The bill proposes to criminalize “discrimination or violence based on sex, gender or disability,” and to add an annual day against “homophobia” and “transphobia” to the national calendar. The proposed law, known as “Ddl Zan,” is being examined …
Wanted: ‘Eucharistic Missionaries’
Susan Klemond is a freelance writer living in St. Paul, Minn., who writes news and feature articles for the Register, OSV Newsweekly, and the Catholic Spirit, the diocesan paper for St. Paul-Minneapolis. She also has worked in marketing, editing, and magazine production. The US bishops’ three-year plan aims to draw Catholics into a deeper experience of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Creating opportunities for Catholics to become “Eucharistic missionaries” who know, understand and experience Christ’s presence and love in the Blessed Sacrament — and want to share it — is a goal of the three-year Eucharistic Revival of the U.S. …
Did the 60 Pro-Abortion Catholic House Democrats Attend Catholic Schools?
Patrick J. Reilly is president and founder of The Cardinal Newman Society, which promotes and defends faithful Catholic education. He also teaches at Aquinas Learning, a classical Catholic homeschool program led by his wife Rosario. They have five children. Here are the members of Congress who signed last week’s pro-abortion letter and the Catholic schools and colleges they attended, if any. When 60 Democratic members of the House of Representatives — all of them baptized Catholics — issued their ultimatum last week demanding access to the Eucharist despite their pro-abortion politics, it became apparent how little they know about the Catholic faith and …
Understanding the Holy Eucharist, Our ‘Source and Summit’
Jimmy was born in Texas and grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith. Eventually, he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, “A Triumph and a Tragedy,” is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on “Catholic Answers Live.” The …
Eucharistic Revival: USCCB Official Discusses Efforts to Deepen Devotion to the Real Presence
Jeanette De Melo is the Register’s editor in chief and co-host of EWTN Radio’s Register Radio. From 2005 to 2012, she was the communications director for the Archdiocese of Denver. Previously, she was the associate communications director for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. She holds a licentiate degree from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Italy, and a bachelor’s degree from Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH, where in 2018 she also received an honorary doctorate. She lives in the greater New Orleans area with her husband and three children. As the U.S. bishops discuss drafting a formal …
Supreme Court Unanimously Protects Catholic Foster Care Agency
By Elizabeth Kirk Elizabeth Kirk is a research associate and lecturer at the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, where she focuses on child welfare and adoption law and policy. She and her husband have welcomed four children through adoption and have served as foster parents. COMMENTARY: Today’s undivided decision ought to do much to lessen this public flogging and its intimidation on the participation of religious people and organizations in the civic, economic, and public life of the nation. The Supreme Court Thursday handed down its decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the case involving …
The Divine Comedy in a Nutshell
By Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce a senior contributor to Crisis. He is director of book publishing at the Augustine Institute, editor of the St. Austin Review, and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. An acclaimed biographer and literary scholar, his latest book is Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know (Augustine Institute, 2019). His website is jpearce.co. The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest poem ever written. It is also profoundly Catholic to its theological and philosophical core. Its author, Dante Alighieri, spent over ten years writing it, completing it a year before his death in 1321. It is fitting, therefore, that we should celebrate this finest …
Eucharistic Consistency
Michael Warsaw is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the EWTN Global Catholic Network, and the Publisher of the National Catholic Register. A NOTE FROM OUR PUBLISHER: A revival of belief among Catholics in the Real Presence is necessary for there to be any understanding of why the conduct of some Catholic political leaders like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi is so egregious. Ahead of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ June 16-18 general assembly, much attention has been given to the apparent divide among the U.S. bishops over how to handle public officials like President Joe …
Priest Works Wonders With Door-to-Door Parish Evangelization
Jim Graves is a Catholic writer and editor living in Newport Beach, California. He previously served as Managing Editor for the Diocese of Orange Bulletin, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Orange, California. His work has appeared in the National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Cal Catholic Daily, and Catholic World Report. By the time of his retirement, California’s Father Daniel Johnson, who died in 2007, had walked the parish boundaries nearly five times. Father Daniel Johnson (1929-2007) was a priest of the Diocese of Orange, California, ordained in 1954. (At the time, Orange County was a part of Los Angeles, …