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Pivonka appointed Franciscan University president

Steubenville, Ohio, May 22, 2019 / 09:58 am (CNA).- Franciscan University of Steubenville announced that Fr. David Pivonka, TOR, has been appointed the university’s seventh [...]
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The Pell case: Developments down under

In three weeks, a panel of senior judges will hear Cardinal George Pell’s appeal of the unjust verdict rendered against him at his retrial in [...]
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An old flag in the collective attic

If you’ve been following our so-called Catholic Literary Revival, you’ll have noticed that James Matthew Wilson has had a banner year—a new book, poems in [...]
Features

The solitary and sacrificial witness of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter

Jesus told His apostles: “You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved” (Matt 10: [...]
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Love In an age of tolerance and abortion

One of the accusations most often leveled against Catholics is that we are “intolerant.” The world calls us intolerant because we don’t accept everything people [...]

The solitary and sacrificial witness of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter

Features

Filip Mazurczak May 21, 2019 4

Jesus told His apostles: “You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved” (Matt 10: 22). It is difficult to think of another venerated Catholic [...]

A story of restoration: An Anglican community finds home in the Catholic Church

Features

Joanna Bogle May 18, 2019 15

When Father Christopher Pearson and some of his flock at St. Agnes Church in Kennington, South London, made the decision to come into full communion with the Catholic Church, they had to leave quite a [...]

Features

Violence in service of justice: Why the “John Wick” movies resonate

Titus Techera May 17, 2019 2

The one impressive action-movie idea of recent times—the John Wick franchise starring Keanu Reeves—is drawing to a conclusion with John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, in theaters this weekend. The action is the best the [...]

Features

The decline of culture, the loss of beauty—and the surprising resurgence of poetry

Carl E. Olson May 16, 2019 9

Dana Gioia is an internationally recognized poet and critic, and the author of several collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and the widely acclaimed 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016). [...]

Essay

It’s time for Catholics (and all religious people) to wake up: The real danger posed by the California Confession Bill

Bishop Robert Barron May 15, 2019 33

SB 360 [link], a piece of proposed legislation currently making its way through the California state senate, should alarm not only every Catholic in the country, but indeed the adepts of any religion. In California, [...]

Film & Music

Dogma at 20: Revisiting Generation X’s controversial manifesto of faith

Filip Mazurczak May 14, 2019 8

Twenty years ago, Kevin Smith’s Dogma had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film aroused enormous controversy. A dispassionate look at the film’s message cloaked underneath a shell of vulgar dialogue is valuable [...]

Interview

Papal Household Theologian on sparking faith, returning to basics of Catholic life

Paul Senz May 13, 2019 8

In the tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, members of the Dominican Order tend to be particularly well-versed in philosophy, theology, scholasticism, and the great intellectual tradition of the Church. This is part of the reason [...]

Essay

Fatima, ideology, and the Vatican’s homosexual crisis

Carrie Gress, Ph.D. May 13, 2019 31

Both radical feminism and homosexuality have no use for healthy, ordered, loving men and women, parents, and children. […]

A Practical Agenda for Catholics

James Kalb May 7, 2019 10

The Church has had a political role since Constantine. That is no surprise. Catholicism is primarily a doctrine and way of living for its adherents. But the Faith deals with basic realities that have public [...]
Lenten Thoughts on Politics

James Kalb April 2, 2019 11
Can We Turn Back the Clock?

James Kalb March 19, 2019 9