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House passes same-sex marriage bill in final vote, sending it to Biden’s desk

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, following the final vote on the Respect for Marriage Act in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 2022. / Credit: PBS NewsHour screenshot via YouTube

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 8, 2022 / 09:45 am (CNA).
The U.S… […]
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In the Footsteps of the Holy Family: A Pilgrimage through the Virtues

God has given us a portrait of the virtues in the life of the Holy Family. Unlike a static, cracked ancient stone, we find in [...]
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The Immaculate Conception Revisited

In December 2018, I wrote an article for Catholic World Report on the Immaculate Conception: “Why I came to believe that Mary was conceived without [...]
Books

Stay Awake: Death, Catholicism, and Yvor Winters

The great American poet and critic Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was sometimes mistaken for a Catholic, though he himself just barely owned to being a “theist,” [...]
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Reaching for the heavens

MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels In every culture that has [...]

Stay Awake: Death, Catholicism, and Yvor Winters

Books

James Matthew Wilson December 7, 2022 5

The great American poet and critic Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was sometimes mistaken for a Catholic, though he himself just barely owned to being a “theist,” and he deemed even that modest statement an “unfortunate” admission. [...]

Conference to focus on controversial Pontifical Academy for Life book

Features

Carl E. Olson December 6, 2022 12

What is the doctrinal status of the Church’s teaching against contraception? How is Catholic teaching on contraception supported by Scripture, Christian anthropology, and the natural law? What is meant by the “radical paradigm change” mentioned [...]

Columns

The new times of Nicholas Black Elk, Native American and lay catechist

Dr. Christopher Shannon December 6, 2022 5

December 6th provides an occasion for Catholics in the universal Church to celebrate the life of a great fourth-century saint: St. Nicholas. Some American Catholics are also now associating the day with a different Nicholas. [...]

Essay

Speech of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Prefect to the German bishops

CWR Staff December 5, 2022 12

Editor’s note: The following is the full text of the speech given on Nov. 18, 2022, by His Eminence Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to [...]

Essay

Sin, cheap grace, and John the Baptist

Peter M.J. Stravinskas December 4, 2022 7

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on the Second Sunday of Advent (December 4, 2022), at Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter). We have completed one-fourth of our [...]

Features

Monastic decline and the loss that goes with it

James Jeffrey December 3, 2022 18

A strange sense of beautiful abandonment accompanied me as I passed between the soundless cloisters of the Cistercian monastery Santa María la Real de Oseira in north-western Spain. One cloister was overrun with purple lavender flowers, [...]

Essay

Is the doctrine of hell a legitimate motivation for evangelization?

Mark J. Hornbacher December 1, 2022 12

Each disciple of Christ is called in some way to participate in the work of redemption. As a Lay Dominican, I take the persons of Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena as guiding lights [...]

Books

To Sanctify the World addresses continuing challenge of interpreting Vatican II

Eduardo Echeverria November 30, 2022 37

George Weigel’s new book To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Basic Books, 2022) is a tour de force in its study of the hermeneutics—that is, the manner of interpretation—of the Second [...]

The new times of Nicholas Black Elk, Native American and lay catechist

Dr. Christopher Shannon December 6, 2022 5

December 6th provides an occasion for Catholics in the universal Church to celebrate the life of a great fourth-century saint: St. Nicholas. Some American Catholics are also now associating the day with a different Nicholas. [...]
Angry hypocrisy and convenient ultramontanism at Nat’l Catholic Reporter

Larry Chapp November 17, 2022 51
How Christocentric and Spirit-filled are the synodal machinations?

Larry Chapp November 10, 2022 57

Reclaiming the light of dogma in the face of supposed “deeper understanding”

Carl E. Olson October 27, 2022 28

The holy men and woman of the Old Covenant suffered torture, imprisonment, mocking, scourging, and death by horrific means because of their faith in God (cf Heb 11:32-40). Many early Christians, of course, suffered death [...]
The Culture of Death is alive as Hell

Carl E. Olson July 15, 2022 26
Abortion and Adoption: Some Personal Reflections

Carl E. Olson May 19, 2022 31

House passes same-sex marriage bill in final vote, sending it to Biden’s desk

In the Footsteps of the Holy Family: A Pilgrimage through the Virtues

The Immaculate Conception Revisited

Stay Awake: Death, Catholicism, and Yvor Winters

Reaching for the heavens

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Conference to focus on controversial Pontifical Academy for Life book

The new times of Nicholas Black Elk, Native American and lay catechist

Speech of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Prefect to the German bishops

Sin, cheap grace, and John the Baptist

Monastic decline and the loss that goes with it

Is the doctrine of hell a legitimate motivation for evangelization?

To Sanctify the World addresses continuing challenge of interpreting Vatican II

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The new times of Nicholas Black Elk, Native American and lay catechist

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Sin, cheap grace, and John the Baptist

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