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The Grand Jury Report from Pennsylvania has been released, documenting the history of clerical sexual abuse in six of that state's dioceses. It is horrifying reading. One of the worst things about that history was the failure of the Church to treat these wicked offenses as the grievous sins they are, and the failure even to call them by their real, ugly names.

The Governor has announced a new state-funded website that gives people information about how to get an abortion, accompanied by false claims about access to abortion and about pro-life pregnancy centers. Just when you thought he couldn't get more radical in his abortion advocacy...

"On Solitude: The Art of Matthew Kirby" opens tomorrow, Thursday, August 9, 2018 at 5pm at The Sheen Center Gallery with a collection of 20 oil paintings that capture the interplay between “the personal” and “the remote” in the figures, objects, and landscapes of urban life. The exhibit will open with a reception at 5pm on Thursday, August 9, 2018 and will run through Sunday, September 2, 2018.

Pope Francis has approved a revision to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, declaring the death penalty "inadmissible" under current circumstances. The Holy Father is teaching us a difficult lesson in mercy, similar to the one the Lord taught in the Sermon on the Mount.

August presents us with an array of radiant feast days in the Church’s calendar. I want to write about a pair of them. Both have enhanced meaning because they occur in this month, the summit of the summer, when the sun is undimmed and the harvest is abundant.

We are marking the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, the great teaching by Blessed Pope Paul VI on sexuality. Despite the abundance of negative signs and the sins of some of our clergy, this is an opportunity to boldly preach God's truth about sexuality.

Today, we celebrate a man whose gift of his life to the Church continues to this day in the Society of Jesus

Today, Ashley McGuire comments on the importance of "Humanae Vitae," and Charles Camosy speaks to the influence of Planned Parenthood on the Democratic Party.

We all enjoy reminiscing about the “good old days” when, so we ruminate, all was simpler, clearer, happier.

The nomination of a new Supreme Court judge has led to a lot of overheated rhetoric. It has also led our Governor to campaign for his radical abortion expansion plan, which would increase access to late-term abortions and remove virtually any regulation of abortion. "Pro-choice" has clearly become not just "pro-abortion", but a virtual idolatry of abortion.

From the Wall Street Journal, Jason L. Riley asks, "As Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination tees up another national debate about reproductive rights, is it too much to ask that abortion’s impact on the black population be part of the discussion?"

With a new nominee to the Supreme Court about to be announced, it's important that we have realistic expectations about what this will mean for legalized abortion.

A blessed Fourth of July and summer!

What has been lost in the coverage of the Cardinal McCarrick story is its real significance -- as much as it is a tragedy and a crime, it is also in reality a success story. It proves that nobody is above the law, and that the system in place to handle allegations of sexual abuse really works.

Last weekend’s newspapers, and reports on TV and radio, understandably had a lot on dads, since Sunday was Fathers’ Day.

Father Raymond J. de Souza takes a look at the latest court ruling in the matter of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

The Attorney General, seeking to justify the Administration's immoral policies of separating children from their parents at the border, has misused Scripture to argue that we must obey the law and our rulers without regard to the justice of that law. All human law must conform to God's or else it is not valid and cannot be obeyed.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, appeared on CNN with Chris Cuomo to discuss the separating of children from their parents at the border.

After careful review, the Trustees of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, which has responsibility to oversee the administration of both the Cathedral and archdiocesan cemeteries, believe that the recent court case concerning the earthly remains of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was again incorrectly decided, and will seek an appeal of that decision along with a stay on moving the remains while the appellate court considers the case.

Decision in the case of Joan Sheen Cunningham - v. - Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral, et al.