A profile of Margaret Starbird, one of the most prominent proponents of the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married. She’s been writing about this for years, but… Things changed in the spring when “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown hit the best-seller lists. It claimed Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, and…

Appointed Msgr. Lawrence E. Brandt, chancellor of the Curia of the diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania and pastor of St. Hedwig Parish, as bishop of Greensburg (area 8,632, population 680,152, Catholics 188,301, priests 212, religious 410), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in 1939 in Charleston, West Virginia and was ordained a priest in 1969. He succeeds…

From the UK Tablet It is difficult now for most Catholic readers – let alone secular ones – to comprehend how central Catholicism was to the English novel written by authors born just before the First World War, who published their major works around the time of the Second. Greene, Waugh and Spark declared their…

A Zenit story about the controversy over a purported interfaith space at Fatima: According to the letter, the rector has been inundated by correspondence due to this “sensationalist news.” The rector clarifies: “God willing, a religious space, will begin to be constructed very shortly, and though it is the presumption of some journalists that it…

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