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2021 Walk for Life West Coast goes forward despite other walk cancellations

While many major pro-life marches across the country typically held in January are being cancelled, the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco, according [...]
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Catholic leaders respond to Biden’s call for unity

Washington D.C., Jan 20, 2021 / 12:30 pm (CNA).- Catholic leaders responded to new President Joe Biden’s call for national unity in his inaugural address [...]
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President Biden and a Catholic inflection point

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor [...]
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Spiritus Domini, papal authority, minor orders, and ministry

I am grateful to Fr. Stravinskas for his response to my critique of his CWR essay on Spiritus Domini. While not wanting to extend the conversation [...]
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars It’s not news that news is on the decline. Yet there was [...]

2021 Walk for Life West Coast goes forward despite other walk cancellations

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Jim Graves January 20, 2021 0

While many major pro-life marches across the country typically held in January are being cancelled, the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco, according to organizer Eva Muntean, appears to be going ahead. The [...]

What is analogy? A Thomistic introduction

Columns

Joseph G. Trabbic January 18, 2021 4

In what follows I would like to introduce you to analogy from a Thomistic perspective. I will begin with a look at analogy in general. Then I will discuss some different kinds of analogy. And, [...]

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United States of America in 2021

Jack Gist January 17, 2021 33

Author’s note: This essay is a response to Carl E. Olson’s January 6, 2021 CWR editorial titled “Who are we, really, as Americans?” New Tribalism There is much confusion in America today, and our citizens [...]

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The Virus, Abortion, and the Ethic of Isolation

Monica Migliorino Miller January 16, 2021 30

As I pen these words tens of thousands of human beings have perished due to the worldwide pandemic of the Coronavirus—over 25,000 in Italy alone. Hardly a corner of the globe has been left unaffected, [...]

Books

The life, faith, and struggle of Joseph Ratzinger: An interview with Peter Seewald

Carl E. Olson January 13, 2021 7

The veteran German journalist Peter Seewald first met Joseph Ratzinger nearly thirty years ago. Since then he has published two best-selling book length interviews with Cardinal Ratzinger—Salt of the Earth: An Exclusive Interview on the [...]

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Ad Memoriam Maximi Magistri Latinae Linguae: Fr. Reginald Foster (1939-2020)

Father Seán Connolly January 12, 2021 12

For the past few years the best Latin lessons in the world were being offered in the unlikely setting of a nursing home basement in Milwaukee. After working in the Vatican for 40 years as [...]

Analysis

Confusion twice confounded: On the motu proprio Spiritus Domini

Peter M.J. Stravinskas January 11, 2021 28

Pope Francis’s latest motu proprio, Spiritus Domini, opens up the minor ministries of lector and acolyte to women. On the surface, this can look like much-ado-about nothing since females have been functioning as lectors and [...]

Books

City of splendor and filth: A review of The Accursed Tower

Timothy D. Lusch January 9, 2021 4

In 1108 Tughtegin, the Turkic atabeg of Damascus, offered to trade Gervase of Bezoches, the captured crusader Prince of Galilee, for the city of Acre (and two smaller possessions). Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, refused. [...]

What is analogy? A Thomistic introduction

Joseph G. Trabbic January 18, 2021 4

In what follows I would like to introduce you to analogy from a Thomistic perspective. I will begin with a look at analogy in general. Then I will discuss some different kinds of analogy. And, [...]
The remarkable and wide-ranging legacy of Mother Seton

Dr. Christopher Shannon January 5, 2021 3
Identity and Catholicism

James Kalb January 1, 2021 12

Who are we, really, as Americans?

Carl E. Olson January 6, 2021 93

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), made the following remark as part of a longer statement about the violence in the United States Capitol: “I [...]
The deeply flawed opportunism of Pope Francis

Carl E. Olson October 21, 2020 98
Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

Carl E. Olson May 30, 2020 44

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