Mary Rezac, a staff writer for Catholic News Agency/EWTN News, holds a degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in secondary English and journalism education. She loves St. John Paul II, Blesse
If José Brochero doesn’t sound like a Gaucho (or Argentinian cowboy) name, nothing does. Earlier this year, Pope Francis announced Oct. 16 as the canonization date for Blessed Brochero, a fellow countryman from Argentina also known as the “Gaucho priest.” He was beatified in Sept. 2013 by Pope Francis,...
Paul Darrow went to his first gay beach when he was 15. Soon after, he hitchhiked his way to New York, where there was a thriving gay scene and where he could pursue a career in modeling. Once there, he landed a high-end job as an international model and rubbed...
As a tall, lanky redhead born and raised in Colorado, 34 year-old Brother David Johnson definitely sticks out in Syria, the Middle Eastern country where he serves with the St. James the Persian Carmelite Monastery in Qara. He originally came as a student to study the language, but decided to...
Catholic experts say occult activity and the resulting need for exorcisms has reached a critical level. Just prior to the season of all things supernatural, the International Association of Exorcists (AIE) met for their 12th annual conference in Rome, from Oct. 20-25. [See also: Why Satan Is So Scared of...
Last week, it was contraception’s 50th legal anniversary: on June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court ruled in the Griswold v. Connecticut case that banning contraception was unconstitutional. Rolling Stone published an article celebrating the news, listing the five ways birth control has “changed America for the better.” Birth control...
The argument that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics (lacking annulments) be allowed to receive the Eucharist is kind of like 40+ year-old, re-heated mashed potatoes: it’s been spit out by the authority of Church time and again, but for some reason keeps appearing on the spoon of stubborn theologians...
