If you ever visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, be sure to turn your gaze to the upper-story windows on the main facade. Just beneath the window on the right, you’ll find a ladder. At first it might seem like a simple ladder of little account,...
One of the great surprises of the late 20th century was that the totalitarian, atheistic U.S.S.R. fell without a war, and that the very Catholic Church the communists hated so much played such a big role. Lithuania’s famous Hill of Crosses is a symbol of that...
You may have read about it already: it’s being reported that Justice Antonin Scalia was surrounded by members of a centuries-old secret society when he suddenly died in the middle of the night. Secret Society? Politically important death? No autopsy? You can imagine the fun conspiracy theorists can have...
When you think about abortion in the United States, you probably think of the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade. But abortion had been a problem for long before then. The laws Roe v. Wade struck down had been enacted in the 19th century after the discovery...
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Pope Pius XII’s secret support for the attempted overthrow of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is the subject of a new book that draws on wartime documents and interviews with the American intelligence agent who wrote them. “This book is the truth – as best I could establish it in a...
