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5 Italians to be elevated as cardinals by Pope Francis at Dec. 7 consistory

Pope Francis creates 21 new cardinals from across the world at a consistory in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 30, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Dec 1, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Five Italians have been chosen by Pope Francis to become ca… […]
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The Ninth Circuit upholds parental rights in religious education

The Ninth Circuit, in Loffman v. California Department of Education unanimously handed down a strong rebuke to the California Department of Education and Los Angeles Unified [...]
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Advent orients us to the heart of the Nativity

Readings: • Jer 33:14-16 • Ps 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 • 1 Thes 3:12-4:2 • Lk 21:25-28, 34-36 “We preach not one advent only of [...]
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Pope Francis proposes joint Catholic-Orthodox celebration of Nicaea anniversary

Pope Francis meets with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Vatican, Oct. 4, 2021. / Vatican Media.

Rome Newsroom, Nov 30, 2024 / 08:10 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has proposed celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea… […]
Essay

Getting Advent right

Advent begins December 1st this year, making it almost the shortest Advent one can have. If I had to offer one piece of advice to [...]

Getting Advent right

Essay

John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. November 30, 2024 12

Advent begins December 1st this year, making it almost the shortest Advent one can have. If I had to offer one piece of advice to Catholics, it’s getting Advent right. Advent is a time of [...]

I Came To Cast Fire introduces readers to the unique work of René Girard

Books

Casey Chalk November 29, 2024 9

Is Catholicism still acceptable to the technocratic elites of our secular, post-Christian age? Certainly not the Catholic claim to uniquely know and safeguard absolute truth on faith and morals. Nor in the Catholic Church’s repudiation [...]

Essay

Thanksgiving with the Saints

Joseph Pearce November 27, 2024 11

It is, of course, right and proper to keep Christ in Christmas, but can it be right and proper to introduce the saints into Thanksgiving? Isn’t Thanksgiving a secular holiday, as oxymoronic as that might [...]

Columns

Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void

Andrew Petiprin November 26, 2024 3

French novelist, poet, and critic Michel Houellebecq is a pessimist and a controversialist. He is also a realist, and in his latest novel, Annihilation, he writes, “However much one might despise, or even hate, one’s [...]

Features

Heretic is taut, well-acted, and brilliantly written

Sean Fitzpatrick November 26, 2024 12

It’s not often that a conscientious Catholic moviegoer can recommend a horror movie, rife as they are with gratuitous, unwholesome, or just downright uncomfortable content. There are limits to what people should conjure, create, and [...]

Books

New biography details the larger-than-life figure and faith of Cardinal Pell

Paul Senz November 24, 2024 5

Cardinal George Pell was a larger-than-life figure in the recent history of the Catholic Church. This is, of course, a figurative and even literal statement: he physically towered over his fellow cardinals, and had a [...]

Books

The Deep Places is a beautiful, profound book on suffering and belief

Conor Dugan November 23, 2024 10

I always knew Ross Douthat to be a good writer, able to advocate dispassionately and provide tight, persuasive arguments for his almost always sensible positions. The longtime New York Times columnist, who has somehow found a [...]

Books

Good and bad sinicization: The future of the Church in China

Dr. R. Jared Staudt November 22, 2024 13

Each generation must fight the battle anew. After watching the Berlin Wall fall in 1989, it seemed like Communism was on its heels. Today, it continues to spread and has become more assertive through China’s [...]

Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void

Andrew Petiprin November 26, 2024 3

French novelist, poet, and critic Michel Houellebecq is a pessimist and a controversialist. He is also a realist, and in his latest novel, Annihilation, he writes, “However much one might despise, or even hate, one’s [...]
On our need for sanctity, weirdness, and wild gratuity

Larry Chapp November 19, 2024 15
Étienne Gilson and post-conciliar theology

Dr. Christopher Shannon November 9, 2024 21

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 100

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

5 Italians to be elevated as cardinals by Pope Francis at Dec. 7 consistory

The Ninth Circuit upholds parental rights in religious education

Advent orients us to the heart of the Nativity

Pope Francis proposes joint Catholic-Orthodox celebration of Nicaea anniversary

Getting Advent right

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Getting Advent right

I Came To Cast Fire introduces readers to the unique work of René Girard

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Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void

Heretic is taut, well-acted, and brilliantly written

New biography details the larger-than-life figure and faith of Cardinal Pell

The Deep Places is a beautiful, profound book on suffering and belief

Good and bad sinicization: The future of the Church in China

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Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void

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