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Month: May 2016

Books

Signs of the Apocalypse: Dan Brown dumbs down an already dumb novel

May 26, 2016 Carl E. Olson 0

I confess to having a love/hate relationship with Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. On one hand, I love bashi—er, critiquing it. On the other hand, I hate saying the same things over and over about one […]

History

Dorothy Day’s houses of formation

May 26, 2016 Russell Shaw 0

It wasn’t so much the look of poverty as she saw it a century ago in the teeming tenements of New York that outraged Dorothy Day as it was the smell. Many years later in […]

Analysis

“Amoris Laetitia” and Vatican II’s Project of Inculturation

May 26, 2016 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 0

Pope St. John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council amid great optimism. Pope John called for aggiornamento and an opening of the windows of the Church, but we know that the 1960s were not a time of […]

English summers and Catholic pilgrims

May 25, 2016 Joanna Bogle 0

Summer is here and the tourists are arriving in London. Americans are often a bit disappointed when they find that England isn’t like the World War II movies: there are no clipped voices and trimly-dressed […]

Essay

Intolerance and evangelization: Thoughts on Cardinal Sarah at the National Prayer Breakfast

May 25, 2016 George Weigel 0

Cardinal Robert Sarah is one of the adornments of the Catholic Church, although it’s very unlikely that this man of faith, humor, intelligence, and profound humility would appreciate my putting it that way. His 2015 […]

Film & Music

Why “Last Days in the Desert” is so boring

May 24, 2016 Bishop Robert Barron 0

With his latest film, Last Days in the Desert, Rodrigo Garcia has accomplished something truly remarkable. He has taken a portion of the life of the single most compelling person who has ever lived and turned it […]

Editorial

“Christ is risen!”: The Big Bang within Time and Space

May 24, 2016 Carl E. Olson 0

A few months ago, while writing Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead?, I was able to watch the movie Risen, which releases today on DVD. It was fortuitous as the film captures, in cinematic […]

General

Duncan Stroik wins national award for architecture

May 23, 2016 CWR Staff 0

The Arthur Ross Award is the oldest award for classical architecture in the United States. It “recognizes and celebrates excellence in the classical tradition.” This year, Duncan Stroik, practicing architect and professor at the University […]

Books

Bishop Barron and the Vibrant Paradoxes of the Catholic Faith

May 23, 2016 Gregory J. Sullivan 0

“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Bishop […]

Analysis

Pope Francis, Populism, and the Agony of Latin America

May 22, 2016 Dr. Samuel Gregg 0

Venezuela is now in an advanced state of political and economic collapse. Such is the fruit of seventeen years of the “21st century socialism” pioneered by Hugo Chávez and pursued by his successor Nicolás Maduro. […]

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