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Beautiful Catholic liturgy attracts, and Hollywood knows it

Netflix has just released a trailer for the original film The Two Popes, starring Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis. [...]
Features

Chaput: Fr. James Martin’s message causes confusion about Church doctrine

Philadelphia, Pa., Sep 19, 2019 / 07:46 am (CNA).- After Fr. James Martin, SJ, spoke at a Philadelphia university, the Archbishop of Philadelphia urged caution [...]
Columns

Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 2

Are political liberalism and Catholicism friends or enemies? The debate surrounding this question has been going on for a couple centuries. It was already well [...]
The Dispatch

Analysis: Cardinal Marx’s next step on the German synodal path

Vatican City, Sep 18, 2019 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- This week, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German bishops’ conference, travels to Rome. There he [...]
The Dispatch

Ironies in the fire

The eminent sociologist Peter Rossi was a world-class punster whose scholarly accomplishments fed a sometimes-whimsical view of the human condition — in which, Rossi memorably [...]

Chaput: Fr. James Martin’s message causes confusion about Church doctrine

Features

Catholic News Agency September 19, 2019 7

Philadelphia, Pa., Sep 19, 2019 / 07:46 am (CNA).- After Fr. James Martin, SJ, spoke at a Philadelphia university, the Archbishop of Philadelphia urged caution about the priest’s message, especially regarding the possibility that Catholic [...]

Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 2

Columns

Joseph G. Trabbic September 18, 2019 5

Are political liberalism and Catholicism friends or enemies? The debate surrounding this question has been going on for a couple centuries. It was already well underway in 1832 when Pope Gregory XVI intervened in it [...]

Books

The case for Viganò’s case against the Vatican

James Baresel September 17, 2019 7

One of the greatest difficulties facing those who wish to reveal hidden corruption is that of providing irrefutable proof to verify their allegations, allegations often rest on a mix of personal observations, claims of anonymous [...]

Essay

Three questions for Catholic opponents of capital punishment

Dr. Edward Feser September 15, 2019 60

Pope St. John Paul II favored the abolition of capital punishment. However, the catechism he promulgated nevertheless taught that the death penalty can be legitimate “if this is the only possible way of effectively defending [...]

Features

Synods and Sausages: Making a mess in Germany

Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille September 13, 2019 38

The so-called synodal assembly being concocted by Catholics in Germany has emerged with a covert agenda so cynical that even its sharpest critics have missed it. This meeting is shaping up to be a debacle [...]

Features

FORMED relaunched with a revamped, updated website, and mobile app

Paul Senz September 11, 2019 4

Computer screens, smartphone screens, tablet screens, TV screens are a part of our daily lives, with most of us rarely more than a few feet from such a device. These devices can run all sorts [...]

Editorial

The passive-aggressive pontificate continues—and the Synod approaches

Carl E. Olson September 10, 2019 62

Update (Sept. 11, 2019): A full CNA transcript of the in-flight papal press conference from Madagascar is now available. Almost six years ago, in October 2013, I wrote my first piece critical of Pope Francis—a [...]

Features

World War II and the witness of three future popes

Filip Mazurczak September 9, 2019 11

This month marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history that claimed an astonishing 85 million human lives, the majority of them civilians. Amidst this bloody [...]

Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 2

Joseph G. Trabbic September 18, 2019 5

Are political liberalism and Catholicism friends or enemies? The debate surrounding this question has been going on for a couple centuries. It was already well underway in 1832 when Pope Gregory XVI intervened in it [...]
Catholics, Nationalism, and American Identity

James Kalb September 1, 2019 11
Why is liberalism so durable?

James Kalb August 20, 2019 5