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Lesser-known facts about the incomparable Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin, the Little Flower, Doctor of the Church—whatever you call her, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux is one of the most popular Catholic saints in [...]
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Meet Julia Oseka: The 22-year-old U.S. voting delegate at the Synod on Synodality

Julia Oseka with Archbishop Nelson Perez of Philadelphia. Perez and other SCHEAP members selected Oseka as one of three Philadelphia delegates to the Synod on Synodality’s North American Continental Assembly. / Credit: Sarah Webb/Archdiocese of … […]
Features

Why is this far-left political activist a guest at the Synod?

With 464 participants, the next Synod, which begins on October 4th, is likely to be one of the busiest ever. So much so that the [...]
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Free will and the drama of sin

On the Readings for Sunday, October 1, 2017 […]
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St. Jerome: Knight of Sacred Scripture

History rightly remembers St. Jerome (c.347-420) for compiling the Vulgate, the all-Latin edition of the Bible. In this endeavor that took decades, Jerome was the [...]

Why is this far-left political activist a guest at the Synod?

Features

Cosimo Brancaleoni September 30, 2023 15

With 464 participants, the next Synod, which begins on October 4th, is likely to be one of the busiest ever. So much so that the venue had to be moved from the so-called Synod Hall [...]

The San Damiano Crucifix: A Theological and Spiritual Interpretation

Essay

Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM., Cap. September 29, 2023 7

This Cross painted on wood initially hung in the Church of San Damiano, situated half way between hillside town of Assisi above and the Spoletan Valley below. It came to prominence when Jesus spoke to [...]

Analysis

Pope Francis, Cardinal Ricard, and a stern “Call to Action”

Christopher R. Altieri September 28, 2023 16

Historians will not want for points from which to date the breakdown of Pope Francis’s reign. Whether it was the appalling rehabilitation of disgraced Cardinal Godfried Danneels – who was on the loggia when Francis [...]

Columns

“It could be worse”: On Tarkovsky’s final film, faith, and the mystery of sacrifice

Andrew Petiprin September 27, 2023 5

In a journal entry from 1982, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky described his struggle to believe: The most important thing and the hardest is to have faith. Because if you do have faith, then [...]

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Evangelization in an Age of Unbelief

Larry Chapp September 26, 2023 18

Wohin ist Gott? (Where is God?) — Friedrich Nietzsche Part One: Nemo dat quod non habet (You cannot give away what you do not possess) The currently raging white-hot debates in the Church are merely the [...]

Essay

The Heart Has its Reasons: Thoughts on a Theology of Courage

Most Reverend James Conley September 25, 2023 14

Editor’s note: The following address was given at the Catholic Medical Association’s 92nd Annual Educational Conference on September 7, 2023. My comments today are not what I originally intended. A title like “the heart has [...]

Analysis

The Rupnik business will stain and possibly define Pope Francis’s legacy

Christopher R. Altieri September 24, 2023 28

How bad is this Rupnik business? It is very, very bad. The Rupnik business is worse—by orders of magnitude—than l’Affaire Barros, l’Affaire Inzoli, worse even than l’Affaire Zanchetta. The disgraceful rehabilitation of Danneels is mere [...]

Books

Literature, Truth and Beauty: Or, why “art for art’s sake” is poisonous

Robert Lazu Kmita September 23, 2023 10

In an interview that I had the honor and joy of conducting almost 20 years ago, in 2005, Joseph Pearce revealed that his vocation is to mediate the encounter of as many readers as possible [...]

“It could be worse”: On Tarkovsky’s final film, faith, and the mystery of sacrifice

Andrew Petiprin September 27, 2023 5

In a journal entry from 1982, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky described his struggle to believe: The most important thing and the hardest is to have faith. Because if you do have faith, then [...]
Evangelization in an Age of Unbelief

Larry Chapp September 26, 2023 18
Facing a maskless future together

Andrew Petiprin September 15, 2023 45

Who is really trying to replace doctrine with ideology?

Carl E. Olson August 28, 2023 164

“There you go again.” — Ronald Reagan, 1980 Pope Francis, addressing a group of Jesuits recently, said: “When you abandon doctrine in life to replace it with an ideology, you have lost, you have lost [...]
The Synodal Sludge

Carl E. Olson June 23, 2023 58
Cardinal Hollerich’s less than “Honest to God” moment

Carl E. Olson March 30, 2023 54

Lesser-known facts about the incomparable Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Meet Julia Oseka: The 22-year-old U.S. voting delegate at the Synod on Synodality

Why is this far-left political activist a guest at the Synod?

Free will and the drama of sin

St. Jerome: Knight of Sacred Scripture

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Why is this far-left political activist a guest at the Synod?

The San Damiano Crucifix: A Theological and Spiritual Interpretation

Pope Francis, Cardinal Ricard, and a stern “Call to Action”

“It could be worse”: On Tarkovsky’s final film, faith, and the mystery of sacrifice

Evangelization in an Age of Unbelief

The Heart Has its Reasons: Thoughts on a Theology of Courage

The Rupnik business will stain and possibly define Pope Francis’s legacy

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“It could be worse”: On Tarkovsky’s final film, faith, and the mystery of sacrifice

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