Karl Malden (as “Father Barry,” based on John Corridan, S.J.) and Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront” (IMDB) Among the Catholic Church’s major doctrinal developments of the past two centuries was one ...

In Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, a Canadian bounder named Rex Mottram converts to Catholicism in order to marry the novel’s leading lady, Julia Flyte. As part of his conversion, Rex ...

(CNN) — There is wide gulf, Frederick Douglass wrote in 1845, between Christianity proper and the “slaveholding religion of this land.” One is “good, pure and holy,” the other corrupt and wicked, the ...

A St. Peter’s Prep classmate asked me to say a Mass for alumni at the Jersey Shore that the late Father Anthony Azzarto had been scheduled to say. I could not and suggested he call the Jesuit ...

St. Francis Xavier Church after it was torn down, with an inscription showing where the “negro chapel” was located The flowing script of an 1847 Jesuit missionary ledger page shows a matter-of-fact ...