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Sharing the love of Christ by following the example of Saint Nicholas

Today, we celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas. Families around the country remember this great saint by leaving out shoes the night before and filling [...]
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This is not the Mary you’ve known or need to know

FCC Rating: TV-14 USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 1/2 reel out of 5 reels When I first heard that famed televangelist [...]
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Bible boom: Why are people buying so many Bibles?

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CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Is the Bible — already the most widely printed book of all time — having a moment?As recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, Bible sales — across a variety o… […]
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A dreary year draws to a weary end in England

Prince William, heir to the British throne, has gone on record as describing 2024 as a “brutal” year. He was speaking, of course, of both [...]
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Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession

Much ink has been spilled by Catholics over the new film Conclave—and not by way of praise. Directed by Edward Berger, it is a piece [...]

Bible boom: Why are people buying so many Bibles?

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Catholic News Agency December 5, 2024 1

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CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Is the Bible — already the most widely printed book of all time — having a moment?As recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, Bible sales — across a variety o… […]

Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession

Features

Sean Fitzpatrick December 4, 2024 13

Much ink has been spilled by Catholics over the new film Conclave—and not by way of praise. Directed by Edward Berger, it is a piece of anti-Catholic propaganda posing as a film—and it is very [...]

Features

The enduring faith of long-suffering Catholics in Albania

R. Cavanaugh December 3, 2024 3

Albanian Catholics are descendents of those who embraced the Faith in the early centuries A.D. And they held to the Faith through 400 years of Ottoman rule and, more recently, an extreme totalitarian regime that [...]

Columns

MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing

James Kalb December 2, 2024 21

Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge [...]

Essay

Getting Advent right

John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. November 30, 2024 18

Advent begins December 1st this year, making it almost the shortest Advent one can have. If I had to offer one piece of advice to Catholics, it’s getting Advent right. Advent is a time of [...]

Books

I Came To Cast Fire introduces readers to the unique work of René Girard

Casey Chalk November 29, 2024 10

Is Catholicism still acceptable to the technocratic elites of our secular, post-Christian age? Certainly not the Catholic claim to uniquely know and safeguard absolute truth on faith and morals. Nor in the Catholic Church’s repudiation [...]

Essay

Thanksgiving with the Saints

Joseph Pearce November 27, 2024 11

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 [...]

Columns

Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void

Andrew Petiprin November 26, 2024 3

French novelist, poet, and critic Michel Houellebecq is a pessimist and a controversialist. He is also a realist, and in his latest novel, Annihilation, he writes, “However much one might despise, or even hate, one’s [...]

MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing

James Kalb December 2, 2024 21

Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge [...]
Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void

Andrew Petiprin November 26, 2024 3
On our need for sanctity, weirdness, and wild gratuity

Larry Chapp November 19, 2024 15

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 101

The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...]
Reflections on a dozen years as editor of Catholic World Report

Carl E. Olson November 2, 2024 25
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 57

Sharing the love of Christ by following the example of Saint Nicholas

This is not the Mary you’ve known or need to know

Bible boom: Why are people buying so many Bibles?

A dreary year draws to a weary end in England

Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession

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Bible boom: Why are people buying so many Bibles?

Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession