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Carlo Acutis to be canonized Sept. 7 with Pier Giorgio Frassati

Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati / EWTN News

Vatican City, Jun 13, 2025 / 04:42 am (CNA).
The Vatican announced Friday that Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, two young Catholics beloved for their vibrant faith and wi… […]
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Rediscovering the memorable Saint Anthony of Padua

Catholic saints sometimes become popular for strange reasons. Saint Nicholas, bishop of the early Church, may have inspired the legend of Saint Nick, but he [...]
Books

The idolatry and “religion” of our present age

My previous article on history and nationalism elicited far more responses than I had anticipated. What I saw simply as a window into one aspect [...]
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A journey through story and soul with Joseph Pearce

Travelling through Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane (and the stunning New South Wales towns of Armidale and Newcastle) during the cool, golden days of late autumn 2025 [...]
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Why we need the Eastern Churches, in Pope Leo XIV’s own words

“The Church needs you.” In the first week of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV spoke these words to members of the Eastern Catholic Churches gathered [...]

The idolatry and “religion” of our present age

Books

Dr. Christopher Shannon June 12, 2025 15

My previous article on history and nationalism elicited far more responses than I had anticipated. What I saw simply as a window into one aspect of American Catholic intellectual life seems to have touched a [...]

Cultivating the Soul: Gardening as Catechesis

Columns

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. June 11, 2025 4

It has been a good stretch in the Ramage garden lately—or at least a busy one. Between harvesting greens, picking the season’s first strawberries, watering young tomato plants, and doing battle with proliferating weeds, my [...]

Books

Comparing the affinities, differences between Ignatius and Aquinas

Tracey Rowland June 10, 2025 5

Sometime last century, at the Fisher House chaplaincy in Cambridge, the Dominican chaplain told a joke in his homily—it was the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola—about the difference between Jesuits and Dominicans. He explained [...]

Essay

Imagine Liturgical Peace

Mark Brumley June 9, 2025 134

Surprise! The Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) has returned as a hot-button issue, if it ever really left. Singapore’s Cardinal William Goh Seng Chye hopes restrictions on the TLM will be dropped, The Catholic Herald reports. In [...]

Essay

Pentecost and the Priesthood

Peter M.J. Stravinskas June 8, 2025 3

Note: The following homily was preached on Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025, at the Church of the Transfiguration in Syracuse, New York. Wind, fire, thunder and lightning. The Sacred Scriptures are replete with instances of [...]

Chapp's Schtick

On Winters’ barren attacks and Barron’s effective evangelization

Larry Chapp June 6, 2025 50

I usually ignore the writings of Michael Sean Winters at the National Catholic Reporter. However, a friend of mine emailed me a link to Winter’s latest piece. As I expected, it was the usual boilerplate [...]

Essay

The Glory of Chartres

Sandra Miesel June 6, 2025 9

This Pentecost weekend, 19,000 pilgrims are making a three-day walk from Paris to reach Chartres Cathedral. Now organized by a French Catholic lay group called Notre Dame de Chrétienté (“Our Lady of Christendom”), the pilgrimage has expanded so much [...]

Analysis

France moves ahead with legalizing of “assisted dying”

Anne Hendershott June 5, 2025 27

Last week, France’s National Assembly—the lower house of Parliament—voted 305-199 in favor of legalizing what they are calling “assisted dying.” The legislation now moves on to the Senate, where the proposal will probably become law [...]

The idolatry and “religion” of our present age

Dr. Christopher Shannon June 12, 2025 15

My previous article on history and nationalism elicited far more responses than I had anticipated. What I saw simply as a window into one aspect of American Catholic intellectual life seems to have touched a [...]
Cultivating the Soul: Gardening as Catechesis

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. June 11, 2025 4
On Winters’ barren attacks and Barron’s effective evangelization

Larry Chapp June 6, 2025 50

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 128

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 28
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 63

Carlo Acutis to be canonized Sept. 7 with Pier Giorgio Frassati

Rediscovering the memorable Saint Anthony of Padua

The idolatry and “religion” of our present age

A journey through story and soul with Joseph Pearce

Why we need the Eastern Churches, in Pope Leo XIV’s own words

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The idolatry and “religion” of our present age

Cultivating the Soul: Gardening as Catechesis