Articles and commentary about radical Islam, the Shroud of Turin, France, President Obama, the devil, "50 Shades of Grey", and much more

Catholic World Report's some of the most read articles of 2015:

•  “Their blood confesses Christ”: Pope Francis on the murder of Egyptian Christians by ISIS (February 16) by Catherine Harmon. Pope Francis responds to the news that 21 Egyptian Christians were beheaded by Islamic State militants.
• The Shroud: Not a Painting, Not a Scorch, Not a Photograph (March 27) by Jim Graves. “One of my favorite testimonials as to the authenticity of the Shroud,” says Barrie Schwortz, an expert on the Shroud of Turin, “actually came from my Jewish mother.” 
• France’s Catholic Revolution (November 23) by Dr. Samuel Gregg. While Mass-attendance rates have steeply declined over the last 30 years, today France is witnessing the rise of an increasingly self-confident—and dynamically orthodox—Catholicism. 
• Why Obama Was Wrong About The Crusades (February 7) by Thomas L. McDonald. President Obama's remark at the National Prayer Breakfast was a chastisement, and a tone-deaf one at that. 
• Grey is the Devil’s Favorite Color (February 5) by Teresa Tomeo. Even many Catholics dismiss Fifty Shades of Grey as harmless entertainment. They couldn’t be more wrong. 
• Two Years Among the Liberal Theologians (October 31) by Dorothy Cummings McLean. The brain-blowing combination of asserting that what is not Catholic teaching is somehow Catholic teaching and then shrieking like a frightened schoolgirl when the word "heresy" is uttered is what the American Catholic/Jesuit theological academy is all about.
• Saint Peter Damian, “Gomorrah”, and Today's Moral Crisis (November 1) by CWR Staff. An interview with Matthew Cullinan Hoffman about his new translation of a treatise against sodomy, pederasty, and clerical corruption penned nearly a thousand years ago by a great reformer and Doctor of the Church.
• The Shootings in San Bernardino: Another View (December 6) by James V. Schall, S.J. The so-called “Muslim terrorists” do not think of themselves as “Muslim terrorists” but consider themselves to be the only real followers of Mohammed.
• President Obama tries to silence Christians by spinning the Pope (May 13) by Carl E. Olson. Remarks made at the "Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty" suggest Obama is concerned about Francis' September visit to the U.S. 
• Kenneth Branagh's Very Christian Cinderella (March 19) by Bishop Robert Barron. This "Cinderella" is not only free of ideological agendas, it reflects a deeply Christian vision of sin, love, and salvation.
• “The devil exists and we must fight against him..." (April 1) by Russell Shaw. A new edition of "Manual for Spiritual Warfare" reminds readers that the devil is real and spiritual warfare is deadly serious.