Author: S&P

You’d think they’d be OK. Demanding action on climate change, speaking against systemic racism, advocating expanded health care, rejecting the death penalty, upholding universal human rights — they’re Democratic down the line. Except for this one thing. One deviation that apparently means everything to mainstream liberals. Members of Democrats for Life (DFL) insist the traditional liberal concern ...

It begins with a chase: Twelve orcas swimming down their quarry until it grows tired. When their target finally slows, more orcas join in, 20 sets of teeth raking and biting into flesh. A few minutes later, the predators work together to force their prey underwater. It doesn’t come back up. This is no average hunt. The scene, observed off Bremer Bay in southwestern Australia, is the first time hum...

Let’s consider three rather humble but important moments that are often lost in the minds and hearts of the faithful – the Mystery of Faith,  the Amen, and the Agnus Dei. They rise in importance because they are moments that belong especially to the faithful rather than the clergy. I. The Mystery of Faith (Memorial Acclamation) In the Ordinary Form of the Liturgy, an acclamation of the people...

Vladimir Putin’s regime is a danger to the Russian people and the world, and will likely remain so, until the kind of reckoning that took place in Germany after World War II takes place in Russia. Editor’s Note: This column is distributed by the Denver Catholic, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Denver. There have been vast improvements in the techniques and technology of filmmaking since 1961, ...

On Dec. 23, 1945, Pope Pius XII issued the encyclical Orientales Omnes Ecclesias, a statement addressed to the Church of the Ruthenians (the Slavic people of Central and Eastern Europe) and Ukrainian Catholics, whom the atheistic Soviet communists reviled. The Ukrainians were persecuted by Stalin and the Kremlin. It was a long torment that hit rock bottom in the 1930s with what became known as Hol...