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Finding myself in the manger: How Christmas turns the world right side up

Where would we be now without the first Christmas? 2025 years ago, God became man, and it changed everything. We take the beloved manger scene [...]
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Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Eucharist

Do just one-third of American Catholics believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, as was reported in this 2019 study? Or do two-thirds [...]
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Contemporary Christian radio and Catholic prayer

I’m going to out myself. I’m a convert. Well, not exactly. I’ve been a Catholic all my life. But I recently completed a conversion of [...]
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Organizers and supporters reluctant to discuss planned LGBT jubilee day in Rome

The Church of the Gesù, where a Mass and prayer vigil for LGBT Christians are scheduled in September 2025 in Rome during the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. / Credit: essevu/Shutterstock

National Catholic Register, Dec 11, 2024 / 17:35 pm (CNA).
An … […]
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Books for Christmas – 2024

A friend told me recently that bookstores were making something of a comeback. I hope that’s true, because browsing bookstores is one of life’s great [...]

Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Eucharist

Essay

Dawn Beutner December 12, 2024 11

Do just one-third of American Catholics believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, as was reported in this 2019 study? Or do two-thirds believe Church teaching on the Eucharist, if you question them [...]

“Thy will be done on earth”? On the anniversary of Quas Primas

Books

Matthew Balan December 10, 2024 7

“Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endures throughout all generations.” — Psalm 145 (144): 13 St. Benedict directed his monks to pray the Psalm above during Vespers on Saturdays. While the Book [...]

Features

“Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” is stylish and slippery

Sean Fitzpatrick December 10, 2024 17

Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, a new docudrama streaming on FOX Nation produced by the celebrated director, features the lives of eight saints in dramatic enactments with documentary supplements. The series certainly has a fresh [...]

Features

Evangelization and the Eucharist: An interview with Curtis Martin

Jayd Henricks December 9, 2024 13

Curtis Martin is the founder of FOCUS, one of the leading global Catholic outreach organizations, which exists to spread the good news of Christ. The success of FOCUS is well-documented but, in light of the current [...]

Essay

Most of the Prodigies . . .

James Matthew Wilson December 7, 2024 10

Note: The following remarks were delivered at the 2024 Napa Institute. In late March of 2018, early one morning, my wife told me that she was pregnant with our fifth child. He would be our [...]

Essay

On St. Nicholas, truth, magnanimity, holiness, and love

Peter M.J. Stravinskas December 6, 2024 6

Note: This homily was preached on December 6, 2024, the memorial of St. Nicholas, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. I would like to dedicate my homily this evening to the [...]

Features

Bible boom: Why are people buying so many Bibles?

Catholic News Agency December 5, 2024 7

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CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Is the Bible — already the most widely printed book of all time — having a moment?As recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, Bible sales — across a variety o… […]

Features

Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession

Sean Fitzpatrick December 4, 2024 36

Much ink has been spilled by Catholics over the new film Conclave—and not by way of praise. Directed by Edward Berger, it is a piece of anti-Catholic propaganda posing as a film—and it is very [...]

MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing

James Kalb December 2, 2024 37

Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge [...]
Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void

Andrew Petiprin November 26, 2024 3
On our need for sanctity, weirdness, and wild gratuity

Larry Chapp November 19, 2024 15

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 102

The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...]
Reflections on a dozen years as editor of Catholic World Report

Carl E. Olson November 2, 2024 25
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 57

Finding myself in the manger: How Christmas turns the world right side up

Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Eucharist

Contemporary Christian radio and Catholic prayer

Organizers and supporters reluctant to discuss planned LGBT jubilee day in Rome

Books for Christmas – 2024

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