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Republicans introduce bill to define ‘male’ and ‘female’ based on biological differences

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 2, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Several Republican lawmakers introduced legislation to clarify that the terms “male,” “female,” and “sex,” among others, refer to the biological dis… […]
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The enduring faith of long-suffering Catholics in Albania

Albanian Catholics are descendents of those who embraced the Faith in the early centuries A.D. And they held to the Faith through 400 years of [...]
Columns

MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing

Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that [...]
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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 [...]

MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing

Columns

James Kalb December 2, 2024 5

Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge [...]

Getting Advent right

Essay

John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. November 30, 2024 16

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 [...]

Books

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

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 [...]

MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing

James Kalb December 2, 2024 5

Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge [...]
Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void

Andrew Petiprin November 26, 2024 3
On our need for sanctity, weirdness, and wild gratuity

Larry Chapp November 19, 2024 15

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 101

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

Republicans introduce bill to define ‘male’ and ‘female’ based on biological differences

The enduring faith of long-suffering Catholics in Albania

MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing

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

The Ninth Circuit upholds parental rights in religious education

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