The Dispatch
Major media outlets express predictable dismay over Dignitas Infinita
By now, it should be clear that when the Church issues a document addressing several topics, one of which is sex, our major secular media [...]
Raising kids in a family unfriendly culture
Books
HarperCollins, in contrast to so much of the “curated” publishing industry, is promoting real discussion about real issues facing America and her long-term welfare. In February, it published Brad Wilcox’s Get Married!, a book not [...]
The theological legacy of Benedict XVI
Essay
Editor’s note: Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born 97 years ago today, on Holy Saturday, 1927. In recognition of that day, CWR is reposting this essay, originally published on Jan. 2, 2023, by one [...]
Books
Approaching Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) is considered by many to be the greatest theologian of the twentieth century. Balthasar is said to have been Saint John Paul II’s favorite theologian, and he was one of [...]
Analysis
Dignitas Infinita: Strengths and Ambiguities
The claim implicit in the title of the DDF’s recently published Declaration, Dignitas Infinita (DI), has generated considerable controversy. The matter of infinite dignity Do human beings have infinite dignity? Certainly, those who through baptism receive a share in the [...]
Books
The Spiritual Terrain of David Middleton
About midway into his fifth and most recent book of poems, Outside the Gates of Eden, David Middleton prints an elegy for the late Louisiana naturalist Caroline Dormon. There, he speaks of his “early poems,” [...]
Essay
St John Paul II’s wisdom about person and sex for our anti-human age
Today the crisis of the human person seems to be reaching a nadir. The apparent successes of efforts to promote confusion about sex and sex difference, which strike at the foundation of the human person, [...]
Analysis
The missing lens and the key weakness of Dignitas Infinita
Moral beliefs linger on after the reasons for them have been forgotten. We need only look at our own Western secular culture for an example of this. Morals without moorings In our culture, those who [...]
Features
Nigerian Catholics address reasons behind ongoing violence
Year after year, Islamic extremists in Nigeria have been perpetrating massacres. And, year after year, major media outlets in the West tend to frame these incidents as general banditry or climate change-related land struggles between [...]
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Ethnicity, class, and sex are always with us. Members of different societies develop differences in habits, attitudes, and loyalties that grow into cultural and eventually ethnic distinctions. A complex society includes activities whose demands, qualifications, [...] -
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I recently was on the road for a while and went to Mass at a parish (in another state) that I’d never been to before. The small church was quite lovely, the liturgy quite reverent, [...] -
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Michigan priest resigns amid dispute over school appearance by ‘openly gay’ author – Via Nova:
[…] CNA Staff, Apr 18, 2024 / 12:45 pm (CNA). A priest at a Michigan parish has resigned his post…
Grand Rapids Mike:
The problem of today is how we have revised the culture. In many ways, I grew up in a idealized…
Greg:
The Episcopal Church wants Infinite Dignity for LGBTQ+.
