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Essay

Full text of Cardinal Mueller’s analysis on the working document of the Amazon synod

Vatican City, Jul 16, 2019 / 09:19 am (CNA).- Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, who was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from [...]
Interview

The practical “do’s” and “don’ts” of vocation discernment

Jesus Christ calls all of us to be his disciples. But how are we each called to live out that discipleship? What will discipleship look [...]
Essay

Reflections on authority in liturgy today

Editor’s note: This essay was presented in a slightly different form as a plenary address to the Colloquium of the Church Music Association of America [...]
The Dispatch

A timely appeal to those in holy orders: “Suffer the coming of God’s love!”

My experience of reading and praying with Deacon James Keating’s Remain in Me was not unlike that delayed ‘pow!’ one gets when enjoying certain single-malt [...]
The Dispatch

The Heart and the Good Samaritan

Readings: • Deut 30:10-14 • Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37 • Col 1:15-20 • Lk 10:25-37 “The heart,” wrote St. John Chrysostom, “is [...]

Full text of Cardinal Mueller’s analysis on the working document of the Amazon synod

Essay

Catholic News Agency July 16, 2019 0

Vatican City, Jul 16, 2019 / 09:19 am (CNA).- Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, who was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 and 2017, presented an analysis with a series of [...]

The practical “do’s” and “don’ts” of vocation discernment

Interview

Paul Senz July 15, 2019 2

Jesus Christ calls all of us to be his disciples. But how are we each called to live out that discipleship? What will discipleship look like for each of us? How can we surrender ourselves [...]

Essay

Reflections on authority in liturgy today

Dom Alcuin Reid July 14, 2019 18

Editor’s note: This essay was presented in a slightly different form as a plenary address to the Colloquium of the Church Music Association of America in Philadelphia on July 3, 2019. Introduction In some Anglican [...]

Features

“Without Logos, the West is over.” A conversation with Dr. Samuel Gregg

Carl E. Olson July 13, 2019 14

Samuel Gregg, Research Director at the Acton Institute, is the author of numerous essays and 15 books. He has written works on political economy, economic history, the papacy, ethics in finance, and natural law theory; [...]

Books

Heaven, Hell, C.S. Lewis, and Hans Urs von Balthasar

CWR Staff July 11, 2019 20

This partial transcript is from the FORMED Book Club discussion of Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know by Michael Barber, July 8, 2019. Participants were Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder and editor of Ignatius Press; [...]

Essay

Clericalism and the disappearance of popular devotions

Amy Welborn July 10, 2019 11

Steadily they walked, well-dressed, serious, each carrying a staff or a lit candle about a meter long, even the children. Over the two hours or so that we watched, there were hundreds of them—men and [...]

Essay

Seeing sacramentally in a pornified culture

Fr. Thomas Loya July 9, 2019 14

For several years of my life, for several days a week, for several hours a day, I would look at people posing completely naked right in front of me in every position imaginable. Some were [...]

Features

Stranger Things 3: Plenty of thrills, but also loss of heart

Nathanael Blake July 8, 2019 5

[Editor’s note: Minor spoilers alert!] Season 3 of Stranger Things ends with an apology for itself. The closing soliloquy on change, growing up and moving on doubles as a self-conscious excuse for the show’s decline. [...]