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The decline of reading and the rise of stupidity: An interview with Mark Bauerlein

Mark Bauerlein is Emeritus Professor of English at Emory University, where he has taught since earning his PhD in English at UCLA in 1989. For [...]
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Pope Francis, pets, and the growing culture of narcissism

Pope Francis has developed a reputation for upsetting people across the cultural spectrum with his “hot takes,” which while often being ambiguous and sometimes imprudent, [...]
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Pope Francis looks ahead to the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 2025

Pope Francis meets with ecumenical delegation from Finland on Jan. 17, 2022. / Vatican Media

Vatican City, Jan 17, 2022 / 05:30 am (CNA).
In an ecumenical meeting with a Lutheran delegation on Monday, Pope Francis pointed to the upcoming 1700th… […]
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Speaking like persons, not a corporation

Readers are no doubt familiar with this: The USCCB’s Twitter account posted a graphic a few days ago listing seven attitudes we might adopt in [...]
Essay

Thinking with the early Church Fathers

For Byzantine Christians living in the northern hemisphere, it’s a bit unfortunate that January abounds with absolutely top-tier thinkers, as we can so easily overlook [...]

The decline of reading and the rise of stupidity: An interview with Mark Bauerlein

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Jesse Russell January 17, 2022 0

Mark Bauerlein is Emeritus Professor of English at Emory University, where he has taught since earning his PhD in English at UCLA in 1989. For two years (2003-05) he served as Director of the Office [...]

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Essay

Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille January 16, 2022 4

For Byzantine Christians living in the northern hemisphere, it’s a bit unfortunate that January abounds with absolutely top-tier thinkers, as we can so easily overlook them in the holiday haze. These luminaries deserve more attention. [...]

Analysis

Losing (and regaining) our sense of the sacred in a “bourgeois” society

Jonathan Culbreath January 15, 2022 8

In 2016, Pope Francis gave an interview to Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor-in-chief of Civiltà Cattolica, in which he wondered why it is that so many young people are interested in the traditional Roman liturgical rites, [...]

Features

Opinion: The spiritual capital punishment of faithful Catholics

Father Jerry J. Pokorsky January 14, 2022 41

The Vatican directive aiming to effectively eliminate the widespread celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Mass requires the cooperation of bishops and priests (Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes and “Responses to doubts” of [...]

Essay

Mark Twain’s correct solution to the race problem

Russell Shaw January 13, 2022 34

Here is today’s quiz: What 19th-century novel points the way to a lasting solution to the racial tensions afflicting America today? If you said Uncle Tom’s Cabin, you’re wrong. As President Lincoln remarked, Harriet Beecher [...]

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The horrors of Communism and the resilience of faith in Albania

Filip Mazurczak January 12, 2022 12

Although all Communist regimes persecuted religion to varying degrees, nowhere did the anti-religious campaign employ such diabolically creative methods of cruelty, and nowhere was it as fatally thorough, as in Albania. Isolated from the rest [...]

Essay

“Strange Rites” and the promise of natural religion

Bishop Robert Barron January 11, 2022 22

Along with many other cultural commentators, I have been tracing for the past many years the phenomenon of religious disaffiliation, the sobering fact that armies of people, especially the young, are leaving institutional religion behind. [...]

Features

Why I left the Society of St. Pius X: An Open Letter to Fr. Gołaski

Andrew Bartel January 10, 2022 138

Editor’s note: A slightly different version of the following essay/letter was emailed to Rorate Cæli at the end of December 2021. Dear Fr. Wojciech Gołaski, I read your open letter to Pope Francis and to our Order [...]

Finding a stable counter-narrative in a time of countless, confusing stories

James Kalb January 6, 2022 26

Military historians talk about the “fog of war,” the impossibility of knowing what’s going on during the confusion of battle. The idea can be extended to the struggles of daily life—that’s why we talk about [...]
The roots of de-Christianization and the commercialization of Christmas

Dr. Christopher Shannon December 31, 2021 9
The question of the sexes

James Kalb December 2, 2021 7

No, there is not a “moral imperative” to take the vaccines

Carl E. Olson December 24, 2021 84

With so many challenges facing us today when it comes to COVID—new variants, shifting directives from numerous authorities, endless questions about so many complex factors—I was heartened to read this bit of sensitive sanity from [...]
Enough with the dis-graceful, politicized commentary on Communion

Carl E. Olson July 15, 2021 49
Thank you, CWR readers! And a few points on Eucharistic incoherence

Carl E. Olson May 10, 2021 112

The decline of reading and the rise of stupidity: An interview with Mark Bauerlein

Pope Francis, pets, and the growing culture of narcissism

Pope Francis looks ahead to the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 2025

Speaking like persons, not a corporation

Thinking with the early Church Fathers

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The decline of reading and the rise of stupidity: An interview with Mark Bauerlein

Thinking with the early Church Fathers

Losing (and regaining) our sense of the sacred in a “bourgeois” society

Opinion: The spiritual capital punishment of faithful Catholics

Mark Twain’s correct solution to the race problem

The horrors of Communism and the resilience of faith in Albania

“Strange Rites” and the promise of natural religion

Why I left the Society of St. Pius X: An Open Letter to Fr. Gołaski

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The decline of reading and the rise of stupidity: An interview with Mark Bauerlein

The horrors of Communism and the resilience of faith in Albania

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