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Ahead of Pentecost, Supreme Court backs California coronavirus limits on churches

Denver Newsroom, May 30, 2020 / 11:53 am (CNA).- The Supreme Court ruled in favor of California’s limits on the number of people who may [...]
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Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. [...]
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Why was “Joan of Arc” Mark Twain’s favorite among all his many books?

To a certain extent, Twain’s novel about the young, fifteenth-century French girl and Saint remains a puzzling act of devotion from a complicated man. […]
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Three Births and the Third Person of the Trinity

Readings: • Acts 2:1-11 • Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Rom 8:8-17 • Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 14:15-16, [...]
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The Holy Spirit in and of the Church

Condensing forty-five pages of the Catechism into a brief reflection is a frustrating exercise, especially when the topic is the meaning of life in the [...]

Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

Editorial

Carl E. Olson May 30, 2020 0

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, [...]

The Holy Spirit in and of the Church

Essay

Peter M.J. Stravinskas May 29, 2020 1

Condensing forty-five pages of the Catechism into a brief reflection is a frustrating exercise, especially when the topic is the meaning of life in the Church. The approach here is not so much to summarize [...]

Features

Treat politicians the same as priests in sexual misconduct allegations

Sean Salai, S.J. May 28, 2020 35

Yesterday, I published an op-ed in The Washington Times online edition, asking Democrats not to repeat the mistakes of the Catholic Church with Tara Reade. It appeared in the newspaper’s print edition this morning. Many [...]

Features

Death, hope, and resurrection: A conversation with Dr. Scott Hahn

Paul Senz May 27, 2020 4

As Catholics, we know that death is not something to be feared. “Death is swallowed up in victory,” wrote St. Paul to the Corinthians, “O death, where is thy victory?” (1 Cor 15). We have [...]

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The Last Words of Norma

Monica Migliorino Miller May 26, 2020 17

“The anti-choice movement will have a field-day with this and exploit it for all it’s worth.” These are words of Kate Michelman, former head of the National Abortion Rights Action League, spoken on the August [...]

Analysis

The Anatomy of a Pathology

George Weigel May 25, 2020 26

Those who imagined that the sliming of Cardinal George Pell would stop as of April 7, when a unanimous decision of the High Court of Australia acquitted him of “historical sexual abuse,” did not reckon [...]

Analysis

John Paul II: Diagnostician of Divisions, Doctor of Ecumenism

Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille May 24, 2020 7

Whatever you think about the papacy, it has an unmatched zeal for, and institutional commitment to, Christian unity over the long haul. And nobody was more committed to this for twenty-seven years than the late [...]

Essay

Why Jesus Changes Everything: A Meditation on the Cross

Larry Chapp May 23, 2020 14

When I was still a university professor, I often asked my students to play an intellectual “what if” game. I asked them to imagine what our world would be like if Jesus Christ had never [...]

Truth, justice, and the mystery of evil

James Kalb May 5, 2020 12

God’s unity and simplicity mean that for Him truth, justice, and power are all the same. He isn’t conflicted, doesn’t do half-measures, and never loses. The evident reality of falsehood and injustice makes that hard [...]
The Saints of Wuhan: Isolation, Suffering, and the Breath of Faith

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. April 19, 2020 9
A return to real pluralism?

James Kalb April 15, 2020 24

Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

Carl E. Olson May 30, 2020 0

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, [...]
Progressives and the problem of being more Francis than the pope

Carl E. Olson February 20, 2020 37
2009-2019: A decade spent exchanging the truth for a lie

Carl E. Olson January 2, 2020 23

Ahead of Pentecost, Supreme Court backs California coronavirus limits on churches

Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

Why was “Joan of Arc” Mark Twain’s favorite among all his many books?

Three Births and the Third Person of the Trinity

The Holy Spirit in and of the Church

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Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

The Holy Spirit in and of the Church

Treat politicians the same as priests in sexual misconduct allegations

Death, hope, and resurrection: A conversation with Dr. Scott Hahn

The Last Words of Norma

The Anatomy of a Pathology

John Paul II: Diagnostician of Divisions, Doctor of Ecumenism

Why Jesus Changes Everything: A Meditation on the Cross

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The Holy Spirit in and of the Church

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