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A native of England, Joseph Pearce is Director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute, and editor of the St. Austin Review, editor of Faith & Culture, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative. He is the internationally acclaimed author of many books, including The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc. No historian should be taken seriously unless he is also a theologian and philosopher. …

Father Robert McTeigue is a member of the Society of Jesus. A professor of philosophy and theology, he has taught and lectured worldwide and is known for his classes in both rhetoric and medical ethics, and is a member of the National Ethics Committee of the Catholic Medical Association. His weekly column can be found at Aleteia.org on Mondays. He is host and producer of “The Catholic Current” via The Station of the Cross Catholic Radio Network and the catholic radio St. Ignatius Loyola, in his Spiritual Exercises, gives us three questions to ask. Have you heard of this book? So …

Judy Roberts is a journalist who has worked for both the secular and Catholic press. In addition to the Register, she has written for Legatus Magazine, Franciscan Way, and Our Sunday Visitor, and is a former religious books reviewer for Publishers Weekly. She also blogs about living more serenely in a busy world at quietkeepers.com. ‘The Catholic Current’ is breathing fresh air into a media milieu rife with click-bait headlines and sensationalized content. No one who has heard Jesuit Father Robert McTeigue on his radio show would suspect he once was a very shy kid with a speech impediment. Despite that …

‘First Things’ published the San Francisco shepherd’s paragraph-by-paragraph response to the ‘statement of principles.’ On June 23, First Things published Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s paragraph-by-paragraph response to the “statement of principles,” a document developed by 60 Democratic legislators in response to the USCCB vote to create their own Eucharistic document.  Each of the Democratic signers of the statement is pro-abortion. Archbishop Cordileone’s rejoinder surfaces logical inconsistencies and practical contradictions as well as theological errors contained within the statement.   The “Statement of Principles” issued by Catholic Democrats in Congress bespeaks the hollowness of Democrats’ claims to respect human dignity while denying the right to …

Lauretta Brown is the Register’s Washington-based staff writer. Following the sometimes-contentious debate at their spring assembly, bishops have stepped forward to stress they are committed to continuing their dialogue and are moving forward in full unity with the Vatican. WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops voted during their spring assembly last week to draft a document on the Eucharist with a section on worthiness to receive Holy Communion — a move that some interpreted as responding to the situation of President Joe Biden, a baptized Catholic who supports abortion and continues to receive the sacrament.  However, many bishops have come forward …

EDITORIAL: It’s the pro-abortion Catholic politicians themselves — including President Joe Biden — who are doing just that. In the wake of the decision by the U.S. bishops to include a treatment of Eucharistic consistency in a new bishops’ statement about the Eucharist, pro-abortion Catholic politicians and their supporters in the media rushed to collectively accuse the U.S. bishops of “weaponizing” the Eucharist. But it’s not the bishops who are politicizing this matter. It’s the pro-abortion Catholic politicians themselves — notably including President Joe Biden — who are doing that. By insisting on receiving Communion, despite their actions in support …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …