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Christ’s Invitation from the Cross: The Seven Last Words

Holy Week intensifies our Lenten spiritual exercises, focusing us particularly on Christ’s Passion. From the Cross, he invites us to share in his sacrifice, so [...]
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Games theologians play with truth and morality

Not too long ago, Randall Smith accused Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of playing Jenga with Catholic theology. Jenga is a game in which players take [...]
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French bishops vote to open sainthood cause of Henri de Lubac

Henri de Lubac / Society of Jesus

Rome Newsroom, Apr 1, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA).
French bishops have voted to open the sainthood cause of 20th-century theologian Henri de Lubac.The French bishops’ conference announced on March 31 that the opening… […]
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Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions

Readings: • Mt. 21:1-11 • Isa. 50:4-7 • Psa. 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil. 2:6-11 • Mt. 26:14-27:66 When hearing a passage as dramatic [...]
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Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is filled with bracing, demanding beauty

People usually rave about the Met. Many consider it, not without justification, to house the world’s greatest art collection. While Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado [...]

Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is filled with bracing, demanding beauty

Features

James Jeffrey March 31, 2023 3

People usually rave about the Met. Many consider it, not without justification, to house the world’s greatest art collection. While Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is also considered one of the world’s best art museums, [...]

Cardinal Hollerich’s less than “Honest to God” moment

Editorial

Carl E. Olson March 30, 2023 39

Raised in a Fundamentalist Protestant home and Bible chapel, I held to more than a few incorrect (and even wildly false) notions about the Catholic Church. Most of these involved Mary and the papacy. Catholics [...]

Features

John Paul II and me (and the Poles)

George Weigel March 29, 2023 11

In the first chapter of Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy quoted an exasperated Congressman, John Steven McGroarty, who wrote an irritating constituent in these neatly acerbic terms: One of the countless drawbacks of being [...]

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Cardinal Hollerich: There’s ‘space to expand’ Church teaching on all-male priesthood

Catholic News Agency March 28, 2023 33

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, speaking at a press conference in the Vatican on Aug. 26, 2022. / Vatican News YouTube Channel

Rome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the archbishop of Luxembourg an… […]

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The goals and lies of the Polish Left’s smear campaign against John Paul II

Filip Mazurczak March 27, 2023 4

“A half-truth is worse than a lie and a half.” This Yiddish proverb perfectly describes the dishonest claims that the future Pope St. John Paul II covered up sexual abuse as Archbishop of Krakow (1962-1978), [...]

Analysis

The law-free zone of human sexuality and the Church today

Dr. Thomas R. Rourke March 26, 2023 13

Examining the various components of the philosophy driving the proponents of the sexual revolution, as well as many Catholic progressives, a good summary of their various proposals is simply this: the entire realm of human [...]

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Permanent version of Vos estis lux mundi meaningless without will to use it

Christopher R. Altieri March 25, 2023 13

Pope Francis issued a permanent version of his signature reform law, Vos estis lux mundi, on Saturday. First promulgated in 2019 as a three-year experiment, Vos estis purported to facilitate the investigation of abuse and [...]

Columns

Musings on ChatGPT, change, and the creeping memory hole

Andrew Petiprin March 24, 2023 6

For years, my wife and I have collected thousands of DVD’s, LP’s, CD’s, and of course books, and therefore we have had little choice but to decorate with them too. We hate clutter, but we’re [...]

Musings on ChatGPT, change, and the creeping memory hole

Andrew Petiprin March 24, 2023 6

For years, my wife and I have collected thousands of DVD’s, LP’s, CD’s, and of course books, and therefore we have had little choice but to decorate with them too. We hate clutter, but we’re [...]
St. Thomas More, Severance, and “God’s First”

Andrew Petiprin March 12, 2023 9
On Cardinal McElroy’s misguided “clarifications” on sin, sex, and conscience

Larry Chapp March 7, 2023 41

Cardinal Hollerich’s less than “Honest to God” moment

Carl E. Olson March 30, 2023 39

Raised in a Fundamentalist Protestant home and Bible chapel, I held to more than a few incorrect (and even wildly false) notions about the Catholic Church. Most of these involved Mary and the papacy. Catholics [...]
Cardinal Cupich misuses the words and teaching of Pope Benedict XVI

Carl E. Olson February 18, 2023 74
Dialoguing with the most incoherent document ever sent out from Rome

Carl E. Olson January 21, 2023 77

Christ’s Invitation from the Cross: The Seven Last Words

Games theologians play with truth and morality

French bishops vote to open sainthood cause of Henri de Lubac

Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions

Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is filled with bracing, demanding beauty

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Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is filled with bracing, demanding beauty

Cardinal Hollerich’s less than “Honest to God” moment

John Paul II and me (and the Poles)

Cardinal Hollerich: There’s ‘space to expand’ Church teaching on all-male priesthood

The goals and lies of the Polish Left’s smear campaign against John Paul II

The law-free zone of human sexuality and the Church today

Permanent version of Vos estis lux mundi meaningless without will to use it

Musings on ChatGPT, change, and the creeping memory hole

Columns

Musings on ChatGPT, change, and the creeping memory hole

Editorial

Cardinal Hollerich’s less than “Honest to God” moment

Novels, dreams, and prophets: A conversation with Michael O’Brien

“God wants us to be holy as he is holy”: A conversation with Scott Hahn

“He prioritized Christ above all else”: Michael Heinlein on Cardinal George

A multifaceted affirmation of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of liturgy

Novels, dreams, and prophets: A conversation with Michael O’Brien

“God wants us to be holy as he is holy”: A conversation with Scott Hahn

Conscience and leadership in the lives of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher

Responding to the ongoing Eucharistic meltdown

“Conscience and Truth” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is filled with bracing, demanding beauty

The goals and lies of the Polish Left’s smear campaign against John Paul II

Transgender ideology makes inroads in Archdiocese of Guadalajara

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