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Michael Warren Davis

United States: The politics of prayer
May 02, 2018
A clash between two Catholics in Congress Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and a practising Catholic, was execrated by Catholics across the political spectrum this week for dismissing the House chaplain, Fr Patrick Conroy SJ. According to Fr Conroy, a staffer from the Speaker’s office approached him in November and said
United States: The cost of Catholicity
April 26, 2018
In 1866, the bishops of the United States, meeting in the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, decided that the United States urgently needed a uniquely Catholic institution of higher learning. These were some of the darkest days in the history of the American Church. Just three years before, New York City was devastated by the
Analysis: America’s new heavyweight
April 21, 2018
Is Newark’s archbishop emerging as the leader of the ‘Francis party’?
Why Trappist ale tastes better
April 14, 2018
The monks of St Joseph Abbey in Massachusetts combine jam-making and brewing with ancient monastic traditions
Why Trappist ale tastes better
April 12, 2018
The Trappists of St Joseph settled in Spencer, Massachusetts, in 1950, on the site of an old farm. The soil was rocky, but that suited the monks just fine. One by one they pulled the stones from the barren earth and used them to build a monastery. Driving down the winding road to St Joseph
There’s one religion losing followers in America even faster than Christianity
April 10, 2018
What is it about American society that makes the religious faith of immigrant communities atrophy?
Spend a little time with your patron saint this Holy Saturday
March 30, 2018
I’m a better Catholic – and a better person – for knowing my own patron
Mongolia, Sweden and Algeria: the unlikely centres of Catholic conversion
March 29, 2018
Conversions are on the increase in some unexpected places
The unexpected Catholics
March 29, 2018
In 2016, Fr Joseph Enkh Baatar was ordained in St Peter and Paul Cathedral in Ulaanbaatar. Like so many buildings in Mongolia’s capital, the cathedral is modelled after the yurt – a round tent made of animal skin in which the peoples of the steppe have dwelled for millennia. Fr Baatar is the country’s first
What the arrest of a Vatican-backed bishop tells us about the China deal
March 29, 2018
Communist bosses have been emboldened by Cardinal Parolin's stance
US Supreme Court considers free speech for pro-life pregnancy centres
March 23, 2018
If the law is upheld, critics say it could set a dangerous precedent: state-funded pro-abortion activism
‘Catholics for Dreamers’: a painful exercise in 1960s nostalgia
March 01, 2018
The protesters seemed more intent on play-acting as radicals than changing minds
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