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During his years as professor of fundamental theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella was often cited by American seminarians as their favorite [...]
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Vatican II’s Key Document on the Nature of Church Authority – “The Second Vatican Council document articulates the proper relationship between papal authority and the [...]
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Franciscan monastery in Aleppo attacked; friars call for peace

On Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, the Franciscan complex of the Terra Santa College in Aleppo was hit by a strike. No casualties were reported but panic has reportedly spread among the people. / Credit: Custody of the Holy Land

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Assessing and resisting the continued growth of the Culture of Death

Threats to human life are constantly in the news these days. We have wars abroad and shootings in our cities, schools, and shopping malls. Added [...]
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Republicans introduce bill to define ‘male’ and ‘female’ based on biological differences

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 2, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Several Republican lawmakers introduced legislation to clarify that the terms “male,” “female,” and “sex,” among others, refer to the biological dis… […]

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Columns

James Kalb December 2, 2024 12

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 [...]

Getting Advent right

Essay

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 9

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 [...]

Features

Heretic is taut, well-acted, and brilliantly written

Sean Fitzpatrick November 26, 2024 13

It’s not often that a conscientious Catholic moviegoer can recommend a horror movie, rife as they are with gratuitous, unwholesome, or just downright uncomfortable content. There are limits to what people should conjure, create, and [...]

Books

New biography details the larger-than-life figure and faith of Cardinal Pell

Paul Senz November 24, 2024 5

Cardinal George Pell was a larger-than-life figure in the recent history of the Catholic Church. This is, of course, a figurative and even literal statement: he physically towered over his fellow cardinals, and had a [...]

Books

The Deep Places is a beautiful, profound book on suffering and belief

Conor Dugan November 23, 2024 10

I always knew Ross Douthat to be a good writer, able to advocate dispassionately and provide tight, persuasive arguments for his almost always sensible positions. The longtime New York Times columnist, who has somehow found a [...]

MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing

James Kalb December 2, 2024 12

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

“Luce,” mascot of dumbed-down Catholicism

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Franciscan monastery in Aleppo attacked; friars call for peace

Assessing and resisting the continued growth of the Culture of Death

Republicans introduce bill to define ‘male’ and ‘female’ based on biological differences

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