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On miracles: If God can do the greater, He can do the lesser

Editor’s note: This homily was preached on the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 25, 2021, at the Church of St. Ann, Charlotte, North Carolina. For [...]
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Papal distractions can reveal papal intentions

By now, you’ve surely heard what happened. “How do you deal with people,” a Slovak Jesuit asked Pope Francis during the now standard Q&A with [...]
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Father Kapaun’s remains returned to Kansas

Fr. Kapaun with his pipe. Courtesy of the Diocese of Wichita.

Wichita, Kan., Sep 25, 2021 / 16:40 pm (CNA).
The remains of Servant of God Fr. Emil Kapaun returned to his hometown of Pilsen, Kansas on Saturday, ahead of his formal funeral Mass on… […]
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Demons, Sin, Death, and Damnation

Readings: • Num 11:25-29 • Ps 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14 • Jas 5:1-6 • Mk 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 What do demons, sin, death, and damnation [...]
Books

Catholicism meets H. P. Lovecraft in genre-bending new novel

David Pinault’s new novel Providence Blue: A Fantasy Quest (Ignatius Press, 2021) is a portal into places and times both factual and fictional that combines [...]

Papal distractions can reveal papal intentions

Features

Christopher R. Altieri September 25, 2021 21

By now, you’ve surely heard what happened. “How do you deal with people,” a Slovak Jesuit asked Pope Francis during the now standard Q&A with local Jesuits during papal trips, “who look at you with [...]

Catholicism meets H. P. Lovecraft in genre-bending new novel

Books

Zander Doby September 24, 2021 4

David Pinault’s new novel Providence Blue: A Fantasy Quest (Ignatius Press, 2021) is a portal into places and times both factual and fictional that combines action and explorations of myths ancient and modern that are [...]

Essay

Marriage reality in the rearview mirror

Robert R. Reilly September 24, 2021 4

At a recent wedding, I was struck by the power of words as the vows were exchanged. When the young couple spoke the words pledging fidelity to each other till death do them part, everything [...]

Columns

Making Prayer a Political Problem Once Again

Dr. Christopher Shannon September 23, 2021 3

In 1965, the Church finally made peace with modern politics through Dignitatis Humanae, the Second Vatican Council’s statement on religious freedom. The meaning of religious freedom and the nature of Catholic politics within a pluralist [...]

Features

Spate of lawsuits nationwide fight against compulsory COVID-19 vaccines

Joseph M. Hanneman September 22, 2021 17

An explosion of litigation seeking to strike down COVID-19 shot mandates is a reaction to increasing animus toward Christians whose objections are based on constitutionally protected religious beliefs — with key cases winding their way [...]

Features

St. Joseph’s Seminary begins its 125th academic year

Father Seán Connolly September 21, 2021 5

The establishment of seminaries was a major initiative of the clerical reform taken up by the Council of Trent (1545-1563) in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. English Cardinal Reginal Pole apparently first used the [...]

Essay

A house in Greenwich, a home in Heaven

Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. September 21, 2021 1

When campuses across the country came back to life this fall, I began my seventeenth year teaching business at a Catholic college in the Northeast. Over the years, I’ve taught and advised a few thousand [...]

Essay

Faith, biopower, and utopia

Johan Eddebo September 19, 2021 8

The old town church of my hometown in Sweden is probably the most salient architectural feature of the surroundings visible from our apartment. Here, across the city’s central lake is where I was baptized, as [...]

Making Prayer a Political Problem Once Again

Dr. Christopher Shannon September 23, 2021 3

In 1965, the Church finally made peace with modern politics through Dignitatis Humanae, the Second Vatican Council’s statement on religious freedom. The meaning of religious freedom and the nature of Catholic politics within a pluralist [...]
Tradition, the Church, and the World

James Kalb September 1, 2021 63
Sheen and Hiroshima

Dr. Christopher Shannon August 6, 2021 121

Enough with the dis-graceful, politicized commentary on Communion

Carl E. Olson July 15, 2021 45

“In journalism,” wrote Venerable Fulton Sheen in 1955’s Thinking Life Through, “the modern man wants controversy, not truth.” I could say that examples abound, but that would assume a broad definition—to the point of non-definition—of [...]
Thank you, CWR readers! And a few points on Eucharistic incoherence

Carl E. Olson May 10, 2021 110
Who are we, really, as Americans?

Carl E. Olson January 6, 2021 125

On miracles: If God can do the greater, He can do the lesser

Papal distractions can reveal papal intentions

Father Kapaun’s remains returned to Kansas

Demons, Sin, Death, and Damnation

Catholicism meets H. P. Lovecraft in genre-bending new novel

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Papal distractions can reveal papal intentions