It's mostly amusing, but sometimes annoying to be in a field of work that most people have never heard of. “You say you're sorry all the time?!” It's good to laugh at yourself. But seriously, my “job ...

Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, during the March 3 consecration Mass for the Chapel of Sts. Peter and Paul at Our Lady of Guadalupe ...

[This is inspired, of course, by C. S. Lewis' famous Screwtape Letters. Screwtape is a demon who writes to his “nephew”: the less-experienced demon Wormwood, giving him pointers on how to tempt human ...

Apologetics has enjoyed renewed interest among Catholics of North America in the past 25 years. One sign of this is the burgeoning popularity of the so-called new apologists, figures like Scott Hahn, ...

Mark Brumley is a California-based writer and CEO of Ignatius Press in San Francisco, one of the biggest U.S. Catholic publishers and multimedia distributors. He was also an apologist with Catholic ...

Sir, – Patrick Davey (July 26th) says “Surely this situation is worth discussing in its own right ( ie the effects of social media and the internet on young minds) rather than treating anything that ...

VATICAN CITY-- In the Catholic Church, it's true that everything old can be new again, and the Vatican wants one of those things to be the art of "apologetics" -- dusted off and updated to respond to ...

The California-based Napa Institute will hold its first annual apologetics conference July 28-30 on the theme “Catholics in the Next America.” The gathering aims to help participants respond to the ...

A chara,– Declan Kelly (July 28th) seems to think the discussion that began in these pages under the heading of “Programming of young minds” and which now continues under that of “Catholic apologetics ...

In the wake of controversy surrounding a presidential candidate questionnaire, produced by the lay staff of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, many Catholics have embraced an alternative voting ...