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Addressing the cold lie about the “warmth of collectivism”

Bishop Robert Barron tweeted in response to Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address, accomplishing something increasingly rare in public discourse, since he cut through rhetorical fog and [...]
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Wise Men from the East and the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord

We Three Kings of Orient are, Bearing gifts we traverse afar. . . . Who were these gift-bearing kings, these Wise Men of the East? [...]
Books

Bigger on the inside than the outside

Christmas is the season of pondering the paradox of the Incarnation itself. What was found in the stable at Bethlehem was far greater than everything [...]
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Herod and the Age of Moral Management

Every person, from king to commoner, lives by a moral code. Catholic moral theology is grounded in the Ten Commandments and the principles of Natural [...]
Essay

My Christmas-tide Adventure with Mother Wilhelmina

I was quiet as my book club discussed a book of Christmas stories. As I listened, my mind roved over the busy year reaching its [...]

Bigger on the inside than the outside

Books

David Paul Deavel January 5, 2026 4

Christmas is the season of pondering the paradox of the Incarnation itself. What was found in the stable at Bethlehem was far greater than everything outside. This is no mere poetic exaggeration. The infinite God [...]

My Christmas-tide Adventure with Mother Wilhelmina

Essay

Monica Seeley January 5, 2026 5

I was quiet as my book club discussed a book of Christmas stories. As I listened, my mind roved over the busy year reaching its close. Then I remembered last December and knew I had [...]

Essay

A Cathedral Fit for Three Kings

Father Seán Connolly January 4, 2026 5

In all my travels, I have beheld few if any more impressive sights than the breathtaking Gothic behemoth of Kölner Dom, “Cologne Cathedral,” illumined at night, bathed in golden-white light, with its twin towers rising above [...]

Features

Civil society in the U.S. is a dead man walking

Kenneth Craycraft January 2, 2026 34

At the beginning of episode seven of the second season of the TV series “Breaking Bad,” a mariachi band sings a Mexican corrido, or narrative ballad, about the show’s antihero protagonist Walter White. In the song, [...]

Essay

Chesterton, Retirement, and Abnegation

David Fagerberg, Ph.D. January 1, 2026 7

I do not intend in these remarks to look at Chesterton in his retirement, for the simple fact that he never seems to have retired. He finished writing his autobiography a few weeks before his [...]

Features

The New Saints and Blesseds of 2025

J. J. Ziegler December 31, 2025 3

A 2005 curial document notes that “canonization is the supreme glorification by the Church of a Servant of God raised to the honors of the altar with a decree declared definitive and preceptive for the whole Church, [...]

Books

What It Means To Be Protestant is mostly about not being Catholic

Casey Chalk December 29, 2025 96

What is Protestantism? It seems a straightforward thing to answer. Protestantism is the affirmation of Scripture as the ultimate, unparalleled authority of Christian faith and practice. Protestantism is the “five solae” of the sixteenth-century Reformation: Sola Scriptura, Solus [...]

Essay

The Smiling Face of Erasure

David Deane December 28, 2025 33

I was recently interviewed on CTV, Canada’s national broadcaster, about Pope Leo’s start in the papacy. The interviewer asked a question that I have been asked in scores of interviews about the papacy of either [...]

The “True” Islam

James V. Schall, S.J. December 14, 2025 51

I. Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will [...]
Equality and the American Founding: A Catholic perspective

Dr. Christopher Shannon December 11, 2025 33
Vatican II at 60

Larry Chapp December 8, 2025 105

The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 151

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...]
The Future of Synodality

Carl E. Olson September 7, 2025 54
Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 130

Addressing the cold lie about the “warmth of collectivism”

Wise Men from the East and the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord

Bigger on the inside than the outside

Herod and the Age of Moral Management

My Christmas-tide Adventure with Mother Wilhelmina

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Bigger on the inside than the outside

My Christmas-tide Adventure with Mother Wilhelmina

A Cathedral Fit for Three Kings

Civil society in the U.S. is a dead man walking

Chesterton, Retirement, and Abnegation

The New Saints and Blesseds of 2025

What It Means To Be Protestant is mostly about not being Catholic

The Smiling Face of Erasure

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The “True” Islam

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The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

New book examines the relationship between Judaism and the Catholic Church

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Nigerian priest: “When religion becomes a weapon, it blinds the people”

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What It Means To Be Protestant is mostly about not being Catholic

New book examines the relationship between Judaism and the Catholic Church

My Christmas-tide Adventure with Mother Wilhelmina

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Chesterton, Retirement, and Abnegation

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