Author: Matthew Shadle

In the days leading up to the papal conclave which just concluded, I became a bit dismayed by the intense, wall to wall media coverage of the event because of two of the forces driving this coverage. The first is our celebrity-...

In recent months, the Catholic activist Dorothy Day has received ample praise in both the Catholic and secular press. Of course, the reason is that last November, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops endorsed the...

Earlier today, Algerian special forces raided a natural gas complex near In Aménas, Algeria where members of an al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist group had been holding hostage a group of workers from several countries. Tragically,...

Since last Sunday, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans have been celebrating Las Posadas, a nightly celebration of Mary and Joseph’s search for lodging in Bethlehem. Each night, people dressed as Mary and Joseph, or statues...