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“What is happening to Christianity in Nigeria is incomprehensible.”

A prominent Nigerian Catholic researcher and criminologist has issued a stark warning: Christianity could disappear from Nigeria within the next 50 years if the persecution [...]
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Pope Leo XIV receives call from Netanyahu after Gaza church attack

Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and Pope Leo XIV. / Credit: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0/Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 18, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV received a phone call Friday from Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime … […]
Books

A Christian Consideration of Critical Theory

In Carl R. Trueman’s most recent book, titled To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory From Marx to Marcuse (B&H Academic, 2024), the noted scholar and author hones [...]
The Dispatch

Carmelite martyrs of Compiègne and the strength of the Holy Spirit

Today marks a historic day in the Catholic calendar: it is the first time in history that Thérèse de Saint-Augustin and her companions, the Carmelite [...]
The Dispatch

Superman is quirky, entertaining, and ideology-free

MPAA Rating: PG-13 Reel Rating: 3.5 out of 4 reels Superman is one of pop culture’s best-known Christ figures, and now comic book juggernaut James [...]

“What is happening to Christianity in Nigeria is incomprehensible.”

Features

Ngala Killian Chimtom July 18, 2025 0

A prominent Nigerian Catholic researcher and criminologist has issued a stark warning: Christianity could disappear from Nigeria within the next 50 years if the persecution of Christians continues and an agenda of Islamization succeeds. Emeka [...]

A Christian Consideration of Critical Theory

Books

Carl E. Olson July 17, 2025 7

In Carl R. Trueman’s most recent book, titled To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory From Marx to Marcuse (B&H Academic, 2024), the noted scholar and author hones in on the much-discussed but not always well-understood history, foundations, [...]

Analysis

Pope Leo XIV and the question of women in Holy Orders

Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D. July 16, 2025 21

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Robert Cardinal Prevost, ascended to the papacy during a period of profound theological inquiry and heightened institutional introspection within the Church. His election took place against the backdrop of the Church’s [...]

Features

The role of pilgrimages in engaging the whole parish

Jayd Henricks July 15, 2025 2

Fr. Jonathan Wilson, a priest of the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, is the pastor of Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Westerville, Ohio. Here he shares the experience of pilgrimaging to Italy with his [...]

Essay

Aquinas and prudential judgment

Dr. Edward Feser July 13, 2025 26

In contemporary debates in Catholic moral theology, a distinction is often drawn between actions that are flatly ruled out in principle and those whose permissibility or impermissibility is a matter of prudential judgment. For example, [...]

Essay

The Warning Against Sloth

Thomas P. Harmon July 12, 2025 12

The Warning and the problem of noise It is easy to underestimate The Warning at first glance. Three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico, who first came to attention through a viral Metallica “Enter Sandman” cover as [...]

Chapp's Schtick

Fr. James Martin’s homosophistry takes advantage of a clear double standard

Larry Chapp July 10, 2025 131

I am not a “traditionalist”. At least not in the sense that the term has come to mean these days in common ecclesial parlance. I have sharp theological disagreements with the theological tendencies among some [...]

Essay

The Ascension vs. Human Composting

George Weigel July 9, 2025 30

There are many reasons to regret the transfer of the Solemnity of the Ascension to the seventh Sunday of the Easter season. Among other things, the transfer shortens the Church’s time to reflect on this [...]

Fr. James Martin’s homosophistry takes advantage of a clear double standard

Larry Chapp July 10, 2025 131

I am not a “traditionalist”. At least not in the sense that the term has come to mean these days in common ecclesial parlance. I have sharp theological disagreements with the theological tendencies among some [...]
Leo XIV and the Liturgical Renewal of Creation

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. July 8, 2025 25
The Gospel, politics, and love of God

James Kalb July 3, 2025 1

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 128

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 29
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 63

“What is happening to Christianity in Nigeria is incomprehensible.”

Pope Leo XIV receives call from Netanyahu after Gaza church attack

A Christian Consideration of Critical Theory

Carmelite martyrs of Compiègne and the strength of the Holy Spirit

Superman is quirky, entertaining, and ideology-free

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“What is happening to Christianity in Nigeria is incomprehensible.”

A Christian Consideration of Critical Theory

Pope Leo XIV and the question of women in Holy Orders