Dr. James Matthew Wilson (www.jamesmatthewwilson.com), a contributor to Catholic World Report, is Associate Professor of Religion and Literature in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University; he has been at the university […]
Poetry used to be where, literarily speaking, it was at. For much of the last century, however, to talk about poetry has been to talk about a subject that has grown increasingly far from the […]
Dear Readers, With this list, we enter a third decade of the “Best Books I Read…”, which is both difficult to comprehend and heart-warming to ponder. This yearly feature began with the simple belief that […]
Pilgrims attend Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 12, 2022, to mark the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas and the unborn. / Credit: Vatican Media
CNA Staff, Dec 13, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA).
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Dear Readers, It seems fitting to introduce this 20th edition—yes, this has been a tradition for two decades now—of the “Best Books I Read…” with a quote from a book about books and reading: Our […]
NOTRE DAME, IN – What began nine years ago as a small-scale effort to re-emphasize a Catholic consciousness in fiction, poetry, and other fine arts has now grown into something much more comprehensive. The Biennial […]
The Subversive Nature of Contemporary Synods – “The contemporary form of synods … includes members of the laity who are hostile to magisterial teachings. For some, simply being on the Church’s payroll is a sufficient […]
American Providentialism – “Since its birth, providentialism—the belief that God actively governs human events according to his design and purposes—has been in America’s DNA.” Would God Stop an Assassin’s Bullet? A Reflection on American Providentialism […]
Richard Carrillo, composer of “Requiem for the Forgotten,” conducts a choir. Carrillo is finishing his doctorate in choral conducting at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. / Credit: Kevin White
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Dear Readers, I was recently browsing through The Quotable [C.S.] Lewis (Tyndale, 1989), and was struck by how often Lewis extolled the virtue of re-reading books. “You really lose a lot,” he wrote in a […]
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