General
As St. Vincent volcano erupts, Catholics ask for prayers
Denver Newsroom, Apr 11, 2021 / 11:50 am America/Denver (CNA). A major volcanic eruption in the Eastern Caribbean has prompted thousands to evacuate parts of [...]
Ahmad Al Aliwi Al Issa, jihad, and questionable narratives
Analysis
In the wake of the March 23rd killing of ten people at the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, two Catholic bishops quickly responded with words of solace. They prayed for the victims and [...]
Whether there is a moral obligation to be vaccinated
Essay
Objection 1. It seems there is a moral obligation, for one is obligated to care for one’s own body and to care likewise for the body of the neighbor, who by divine command is to [...]
Books
Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows and the Light of Faith
I recently paid tribute to the poet Claude McKay, a singular figure in American literature. He was the first great poet of the Harlem Renaissance who inspired a generation. After a late-life conversion, in 1944, [...]
Columns
New memoir captures the Catholicism of the Immigrant Church era
In the column I wrote as we began Lent, I reflected on the somewhat scandalous tradition of Carnival as practiced in the traditional Catholic cultures of the Mediterranean. Northern Catholic cultures tended to delay their [...]
Columns
Left, Right, and Church teaching: Seasonal reflections on politics
What life are we leading today? And what is it for? Lent has been a time to reflect on such things, and Easter and Spring are seasons of rebirth. But sometimes reflection brings little comfort, [...]
Essay
The Great Reset, Catholic Style
Catholic social teaching has been called the “Church’s best kept secret”, and with good reason. The two foundational encyclicals (Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum [RV]and Pope Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno [QA]), other encyclicals on social [...]
Essay
“I am the man, Thomas, I am the man…”
I am the man, Thomas, I am the man; Look at these nail scars here in my hands. Jesus didn’t utter those words, as far as we know, during his post-Resurrection encounter with St. Thomas [...]
Analysis
Hong Kong Calvary 2021
The news was expected, but that did not make it any less wrenching: newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai, veteran democracy activist Martin Lee, and other brave defenders of human rights were convicted in Hong Kong on [...]
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Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), made the following remark as part of a longer statement about the violence in the United States Capitol: “I [...] -
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Gary Lockhart:
"1st they came for the unborn & I did not speak up b/c I was born." Fr. Matthew P. Schneider,…
Clyde Christofferson:
Leslie, "I doubt that very much." Clearly, we are not on the page. But I was making a narrower statement.…
Johan Oliveire:
Thank you for covering the Caribbean on this wonderful website! There is much left to be desired in knowledgeability, both…
