Where have all the new religions gone?
It’s been a while since anyone started a new religion. It’s not as easy as you think. You have to get a believable number of people to believe that you have some special insight into […]
Year: 2016
Books
A moral case for abortion?
In Britain, Ann Furedi’s name is synonymous with abortion apologetics. She is the director of one of Britain’s largest chains of abortion facilities and she makes frequent appearances at debates and in the press, defending […]
Essay
Where is Professor Anthony Esolen’s “safe space”? (Updated)
Anthony Esolen, professor of literature at Providence College, who is likely known to many CWR readers as his writing appears frequently on nearly every Catholic web site known to mankind, has written several columns critical […]
General
The impossibility of transmitting faith
Someone asked me to give a talk about the family’s role in transmitting faith, and I agreed. Claiming no special expertise on the subject, I simply sat down and thought it through in a common-sense […]
Opinion
Rigidity in defense of the liturgy is no vice
In taking up the latest papal interview, I am violating two of my own rules: 1) not to pay attention to any more papal interviews, which are too often shambolic and vexatious, 2) and not […]
Essay
Gloucester fisherman, American veteran, Polish benefactor
Two weeks before Veterans Day, 88-year old World War II vet Curtis Dagley of Gloucester, Massachusetts, was decorated by the Republic of Poland. The great, late-Gothic sculptor Wit Stwosz (known in German as Veit Stoss) […]
Special Report
Polish Independence Day Marches Demonstrate Ideological Divides
WARSAW. On November 11, the 98th anniversary of Poland’s regained independence, the cold streets of central Warsaw were crammed with citizens marching under red-and-white Polish flags. Two rival marches held that day illustrated Poland’s ideological […]
Interview
How to Stay Catholic While Attending College and University
Catholic parents often think about how they can nurture and encourage their teenage children to mature in their knowledge and love of the Faith. There is, without question, a steady and often deceptive onslaught in […]
General
Dawn Eden on allowing God to heal our memories
In 2012, theologian and childhood-abuse survivor Dawn Eden published My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints (Ave Maria Press), in which she briefly mentions the idea of God […]
Essay
A Pilgrim, a Bishop, and His iPhone
I’m in the process of re-reading a spiritual classic from the Russian Orthodox tradition: The Way of a Pilgrim. This little text, whose author is unknown to us, concerns a man from mid-nineteenth century Russia who […]