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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. St. Damien: The Deeper Issue

Three days after the executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “the future of the Catholic Church”—striking language given that the chairman [...]
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Transfiguration and prayer: Often misunderstood, deeply related

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord [...]
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The Transfiguration: Gospel to the Dead

An excerpt from Frank Sheed’s To Know Christ Jesus. […]
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Vatican II not sole controversial council, Catholic theologian says

Denver Newsroom, Aug 5, 2020 / 03:35 pm (CNA).- Amid recent controversy over Vatican II, a theologian said that ecumenical councils have a history of [...]
Analysis

Peacocking, Loyola, and Flannery O’Connor

“That a good many Christians today kneel before the world,” Jacques Maritain observed in The Peasant of the Garonne, “is a fact perfectly clear.” Taking [...]

Peacocking, Loyola, and Flannery O’Connor

Analysis

Marc D. Guerra, Ph.D. August 5, 2020 11

“That a good many Christians today kneel before the world,” Jacques Maritain observed in The Peasant of the Garonne, “is a fact perfectly clear.” Taking aim at the “new philosophy” he detected weaving its way [...]

Classical music, beauty, and evangelization: An interview with Michael Kurek

Features

Paul Senz August 3, 2020 13

Editor’s note: This is an installment in our series on the evangelizing power of beauty. In this series, we are looking at how beauty can bring us to God, convey a sense of the sacred, point [...]

Columns

A secular society?

James Kalb August 2, 2020 8

Modern Western governments claim they leave questions of ultimate meaning to the individual. That is the point of the Supreme Court’s claim that our public order is based on “the right to define one’s own [...]

Features

Scholar debunks faulty analogy between the Hagia Sophia and Cathedral of Cordoba

Father Seán Connolly July 31, 2020 8

The Turkish government’s decision two weeks ago to have the Hagia Sophia used as a mosque once again was met with outrage and concern throughout the world. The first day of prayer since the Hagia Sophia’s [...]

Essay

Master of Victims: Wokeness and the current war against Truth

Jack Gist July 30, 2020 17

“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.” — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance (Ignatius Press, [...]

Essay

Dorothy Day, precarity, and the universal call to holiness

Larry Chapp July 29, 2020 27

Eugene McCarraher, in his new book The Enchantments of Mammon, makes the claim that the modern world, far from being a highly secularized and profane world devoid of spiritual “enchantments,” is in fact a world [...]

Books

Former Cosmo writer: “I wrote this book as an act of atonement.”

Paul Senz July 28, 2020 16

Over the last 60 years or so, the “sexual revolution” has transformed nearly every aspect of American society. Propaganda for the sexual revolution flowed from the pages of such publications as Cosmopolitan, where a young [...]

Essay

The Triumph of Truth: Overlooking the Obvious

F.X. Cronin July 27, 2020 10

Given the many technological and scientific advances over the last two hundred years, it is startling to consider the stupefying malaise and paradoxical plague that prevents so many of us from seeing the obvious truths [...]

A secular society?

James Kalb August 2, 2020 8

Modern Western governments claim they leave questions of ultimate meaning to the individual. That is the point of the Supreme Court’s claim that our public order is based on “the right to define one’s own [...]
What are the “Deep State” and “Deep Church”?

James Kalb July 8, 2020 55
Social justice as a religion

James Kalb June 1, 2020 25

Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

Carl E. Olson May 30, 2020 44

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, [...]
Progressives and the problem of being more Francis than the pope

Carl E. Olson February 20, 2020 41
2009-2019: A decade spent exchanging the truth for a lie

Carl E. Olson January 2, 2020 25

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. St. Damien: The Deeper Issue

Transfiguration and prayer: Often misunderstood, deeply related

The Transfiguration: Gospel to the Dead

Vatican II not sole controversial council, Catholic theologian says

Peacocking, Loyola, and Flannery O’Connor

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Peacocking, Loyola, and Flannery O’Connor

Classical music, beauty, and evangelization: An interview with Michael Kurek

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Scholar debunks faulty analogy between the Hagia Sophia and Cathedral of Cordoba

Master of Victims: Wokeness and the current war against Truth

Dorothy Day, precarity, and the universal call to holiness

Former Cosmo writer: “I wrote this book as an act of atonement.”

The Triumph of Truth: Overlooking the Obvious

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A secular society?

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Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

Classical music, beauty, and evangelization: An interview with Michael Kurek

Scholar debunks faulty analogy between the Hagia Sophia and Cathedral of Cordoba

Former Cosmo writer: “I wrote this book as an act of atonement.”

Former Cosmo writer: “I wrote this book as an act of atonement.”

Poetry’s Revival and Mr. Wilson

Historical fiction at the service of Lockean liberalism

A secular society?

Master of Victims: Wokeness and the current war against Truth

Dorothy Day, precarity, and the universal call to holiness

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Madison’s Days of Rage

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