Essay
The Immaculate Conception Revisited
Last December, I wrote an article for Catholic World Report on the Immaculate Conception: “Why I came to believe that Mary was conceived without sin.” [...]
The Immaculate Conception Revisited
Essay
Last December, I wrote an article for Catholic World Report on the Immaculate Conception: “Why I came to believe that Mary was conceived without sin.” I argued that it was (1) a matter of typology, [...]
You Better Watch Out—St. Nicholas is Coming to Town
Features
Everyone loves jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas. There is something romantic and cozy about telling Santa stories around the crackling fire. He is an icon of the Christmas season. But not everyone agrees about the real [...]
Features
The ancient roots of deification in the Latin tradition
Dr. Jared Ortiz is Associate Professor of Religion at Hope College, author of You Made Us for Yourself: Creation in St Augustine’s Confessions (Fortress Press, 2016), founder and executive director of the Saint Benedict Institute, [...]
Essay
What the street tells me: Reflections in front of an abortion clinic
We are winning. This may seem an odd statement, particularly in light of the recent elections in my state of Virginia in which pro-abortion Democrats swept the boards. My counterintuitive judgment comes from street experience [...]
Essay
Advent and the Four Last Things
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., First Sunday of Advent (December 1, 2019), at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan. Today we begin a [...]
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“All time belongs to him”: On Advent and the liturgical year
“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened [...]
Essay
Thanksgiving with the Saints
It is of course right and proper to keep Christ in Christmas, but can it be right and proper to introduce the saints into Thanksgiving? Isn’t Thanksgiving a secular holiday, as oxymoronic as that might [...]
Film & Music
Forgiveness and reconciliation in Mr. Rogers’ iconic “Neighborhood”
Everyone who grew up in America between 1968 and 2001 was likely touched by the classic children’s TV series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” starring a soft-spoken Presbyterian minister named Fred Rogers. Rogers was concerned about the [...]
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My monthly column is called “Ecclesia et Civitas” because it mostly has to do with the relation between the Church and the secular community. That’s a hard topic to get a handle on. We are [...] -
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There has been a fair amount of discussion and commentary among Catholics in recent years about “Nones,” notably the work of Bishop Robert Barron, who last week “outlined five paths Church leaders should take to [...] -
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SATVRDAY EDITION – Big Pulpit:
[…] Crisis Magazine Live Perpetual Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament Via Adorecast – Team Catholify “All Time Belongs To Him”:…
Lynda:
no one knows who Fr. Curran is, everyone knows who Bishop Sheen is,,, is that a clue?
Peter Connolly:
Fr. Morello I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out Jorge Bergoglio. One thing he is not…
