In this undated photo, G.K. Chesterton, left, receives an honorary degree from Holy Cross Father Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C., then president of the University of Notre Dame (CNS photo/Matt Cashore, ...

Before Pope Francis was elected, conservative Catholics had fallen into a habit of dismissing the more liberal form of Catholicism as an old and faded thing, a vision of the future that belonged to ...

‘PATRIOTISM is the religion of the English’ — that epigram, applied to any English problem, gives you the core of its truth. Applied singly to any individual matter, — especially the matter which I ...

Pole had embarked on this promptly and efficiently, with Rome’s guidance. When Mary ascended the throne in 1553, England was still a largely Catholic country (even if much of its Catholicism was on ...

"We consider the establishment of our country's independence, the shaping of its liberties and laws, as a work of special Providence, its framers 'building better than they knew,' the Almighty's hand ...

The English are that one modern white people in which the average man could tell you least as to what the Catholic Church is; England is that one western European country in which Catholic culture, ...