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Abp. Naumann, Pres. Biden, and the ongoing clash over Holy Communion

President Joseph Biden’s advocacy of legalized abortion while continuing to receive Holy Communion is the crucial issue confronting the Church in America today. Such a [...]
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Should suffering shake our faith?

Premier Christian Radio in the UK just sponsored a survey that investigated how the COVID crisis has affected religious beliefs and attitudes. There were three [...]
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Christian leaders in Nigeria allege Islamization attempt after recent judicial appointments

Abuja, Nigeria, Apr 13, 2021 / 12:15 pm (CNA). Christian leaders in Nigeria claimed Sunday that Muhammadu Buhari’s government is keen on Islamizing the West [...]
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On the intimate nature of Confession

When my wife and I began dating, it wasn’t long before I realized I had finally, after many years, found someone I could be myself [...]
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California’s limit on home religious gatherings too strict, US Supreme Court says

Washington D.C., Apr 12, 2021 / 13:49 pm (CNA). California’s coronavirus restrictions on home-based religious gatherings like Bible studies, worship and prayer meetings were more [...]

Abp. Naumann, Pres. Biden, and the ongoing clash over Holy Communion

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Monica Migliorino Miller April 13, 2021 0

President Joseph Biden’s advocacy of legalized abortion while continuing to receive Holy Communion is the crucial issue confronting the Church in America today. Such a claim is certainly arguable considering the gravity of the evil [...]

Ideas have consequences

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Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. April 11, 2021 6

Richard Weaver, the political philosopher, once wrote that “ideas have consequences.” And therein lies a tale. In June 2001, exactly 20 years ago, a friend of mine and his wife attended a meeting in Washington, [...]

Analysis

Ahmad Al Aliwi Al Issa, jihad, and questionable narratives

William Kilpatrick April 10, 2021 12

In the wake of the March 23rd killing of ten people at the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, two Catholic bishops quickly responded with words of solace. They prayed for the victims and [...]

Essay

Whether there is a moral obligation to be vaccinated

Dr. Douglas Farrow April 9, 2021 74

Objection 1. It seems there is a moral obligation, for one is obligated to care for one’s own body and to care likewise for the body of the neighbor, who by divine command is to [...]

Books

Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows and the Light of Faith

James Matthew Wilson April 8, 2021 4

I recently paid tribute to the poet Claude McKay, a singular figure in American literature. He was the first great poet of the Harlem Renaissance who inspired a generation. After a late-life conversion, in 1944, [...]

Columns

New memoir captures the Catholicism of the Immigrant Church era

Dr. Christopher Shannon April 7, 2021 2

In the column I wrote as we began Lent, I reflected on the somewhat scandalous tradition of Carnival as practiced in the traditional Catholic cultures of the Mediterranean. Northern Catholic cultures tended to delay their [...]

Columns

Left, Right, and Church teaching: Seasonal reflections on politics

James Kalb April 6, 2021 24

What life are we leading today? And what is it for? Lent has been a time to reflect on such things, and Easter and Spring are seasons of rebirth. But sometimes reflection brings little comfort, [...]

Essay

The Great Reset, Catholic Style

Theodore Misiak April 5, 2021 23

Catholic social teaching has been called the “Church’s best kept secret”, and with good reason. The two foundational encyclicals (Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum [RV]and Pope Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno [QA]), other encyclicals on social [...]

New memoir captures the Catholicism of the Immigrant Church era

Dr. Christopher Shannon April 7, 2021 2

In the column I wrote as we began Lent, I reflected on the somewhat scandalous tradition of Carnival as practiced in the traditional Catholic cultures of the Mediterranean. Northern Catholic cultures tended to delay their [...]
Left, Right, and Church teaching: Seasonal reflections on politics

James Kalb April 6, 2021 24
The Church and the suicide of the West

James Kalb March 11, 2021 37

Who are we, really, as Americans?

Carl E. Olson January 6, 2021 123

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), made the following remark as part of a longer statement about the violence in the United States Capitol: “I [...]
The deeply flawed opportunism of Pope Francis

Carl E. Olson October 21, 2020 108
Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

Carl E. Olson May 30, 2020 44

Abp. Naumann, Pres. Biden, and the ongoing clash over Holy Communion

Should suffering shake our faith?

Christian leaders in Nigeria allege Islamization attempt after recent judicial appointments

On the intimate nature of Confession

California’s limit on home religious gatherings too strict, US Supreme Court says

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Abp. Naumann, Pres. Biden, and the ongoing clash over Holy Communion

Ideas have consequences

Ahmad Al Aliwi Al Issa, jihad, and questionable narratives

Whether there is a moral obligation to be vaccinated

Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows and the Light of Faith

New memoir captures the Catholicism of the Immigrant Church era

Left, Right, and Church teaching: Seasonal reflections on politics

The Great Reset, Catholic Style

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New memoir captures the Catholicism of the Immigrant Church era

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Who are we, really, as Americans?

New MFA program aims for renewal of literary craft rooted in robust Catholic tradition and imagination

New book explores the surprising—and often ecumenical—reality of deification

Convert from Islam reflects on Pope Francis’ historic visit to Iraq

Ideas have consequences

Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows and the Light of Faith

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Whether there is a moral obligation to be vaccinated

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