Essay
No Reconciliation without Contrition and Confession
It was highly amusing for me to read the comments to my “Winnowing Weasel Words” piece, recently published by CWR. First, I was described as [...]
No Reconciliation without Contrition and Confession
Essay
It was highly amusing for me to read the comments to my “Winnowing Weasel Words” piece, recently published by CWR. First, I was described as an American, and then, when the editor pointed out that [...]
T.S. Eliot’s Complete Simplicity
Books
In her admirably updated and revised critical biography, T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Lyndall Gordon plunders the various works of her subject to show how suffused they are with the travails of a life, especially the [...]
Essay
Why Catholics should reject the month and myth of “trangendered Saints”
It’s worth noting that there were fewer Pride flags and celebrations this June than in years past. But Catholics never needed the secular calendar’s permission to know that June actually belongs to the Sacred Heart [...]
Features
Pursuing peace, addressing extremism in Nigeria: An interview with Fr. Atta Barkindo
Fr. Atta Barkindo, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Kukah Centre, has been appointed to a high-level expert team tasked by Nigeria’s Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) with developing a comprehensive National Peace Framework. [...]
Columns
Babel today
At its highest levels, political life today is an attempt to reach heaven through purely human means—that is, to construct Babel. That attempt is partly motivated by institutional interests, but at bottom has to do [...]
Analysis
Unbroken: News from the Church in China
Sitting in the room with Chinese priests and nuns is always an exercise of patient listening and reading between the lines. Sometimes—it is not typically characteristic of Chinese culture to speak directly—someone is blunt. That [...]
Essay
Winnowing Weasel Words
Popes have long been political players on the world stage. In recent times, John Paul II worked with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan to bring down the Berlin Wall. Benedict XVI addressed a joint sitting [...]
Features
“Adore Him” combines history and testimony in promoting Eucharistic adoration
Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry, a Catholic evangelization apostolate founded and led by Deacon Steve Greco, director of evangelization and formation for the Diocese of Orange in California, has produced a film titled “Adore Him”. It is [...]
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“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...] -
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DiogenesRedux:
Making America great again!
Oscar:
This is a fabulous and very Christian song by Dolly Parton. God bless her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYro45kIRlw&list=RDFYro45kIRlw&start_radio=1
Edward J Baker:
Journey to where??? And "faithful" to what?? Platitudes always lead to dead ends as corrupt self-indulgent "doses" of liturgies morphing…
