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Museum offers an immersive, evidence-based experience of the Shroud of Turin

Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, the chancery office of the Diocese of Orange, has welcomed a new interactive museum: “The Shroud of Turin: An [...]
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The repose of Archimandrite Nicholas Zachariadis, a monastic pioneer

The monastery is the prophetic place where creation becomes praise of God and the precept of concretely lived charity becomes the ideal of human coexistence; [...]
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Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2025 / 13:37 pm The Vatican published on Dec. 4 the summary of the work carried out by the commissions [...]
Analysis

Artificial Womb Technology: Daedalus Revisited

On May 30, 2025, Japanese researchers at Juntendo University (Bunkyō, Tokyo) pulled back the curtain on their model of artificial womb technology (AWT). Dubbed the [...]
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Seven things to know about St. John of Damascus, the last Church Father

Church of Panagia tou Arakos, triumphal arch, wall paintings, Lagoudera, Cyprus — north side, St. John of Damascus. / Credit: Winfield, David, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

National Catholic Register, Dec 4, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA).
On Dec. 4 we cel… […]

Artificial Womb Technology: Daedalus Revisited

Analysis

Sister Renée Mirkes December 4, 2025 1

On May 30, 2025, Japanese researchers at Juntendo University (Bunkyō, Tokyo) pulled back the curtain on their model of artificial womb technology (AWT). Dubbed the EVE therapy system, this artificial womb, after being successfully tested [...]

Faith here and now

Columns

James Kalb December 3, 2025 3

Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was largely right. Not all Americans buy into the whole of our national creed, but it’s real, and it dominates public life. It [...]

Analysis

Scrolling ourselves to death

Marcus Peter December 2, 2025 13

The recent revelation that Meta employees privately compared themselves to drug pushers while the company suppressed evidence of severe mental health harms to children arrives with the subtlety of a fire alarm in a library. [...]

Features

Eastern Catholics in the United States: A Look at the Numbers

J. J. Ziegler December 1, 2025 16

In Orientalium Ecclesiarum, the 1964 Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, the fathers of the Second Vatican Council declared: The Catholic Church holds in high esteem the institutions, liturgical rites, ecclesiastical traditions and the established standards of [...]

Features

Bishop Daniel E. Thomas discusses vocations, evangelization, transgenderism

Jim Graves November 29, 2025 12

Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, 66, is the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio. He is originally from Philadelphia and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 1985. He lived in [...]

Essay

Embracing the Embarrassment of Advent

Carl E. Olson November 28, 2025 6

“It might be said of Advent that it is not for the faint of heart. To grasp the depth of the human predicament, one has to be willing to enter into the very worst.” — [...]

Essay

The debt we owe to the Mayflower pilgrims

Marcus Peter November 26, 2025 8

When the Mayflower anchored off Cape Cod in November 1620, its passengers had already accomplished something remarkable. They had survived a perilous Atlantic crossing on a leaky vessel in freezing winds. Yet before they even [...]

Essay

Saints and Divorce

Sandra Miesel November 25, 2025 43

Divorced saints? How can that be? Catholics are more likely to hear edifying stories about pious wives like St. Catherine of Genoa or Elizabeth Canori-Mora, who stayed with wicked husbands until they prayed their erring [...]

Faith here and now

James Kalb December 3, 2025 3

Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was largely right. Not all Americans buy into the whole of our national creed, but it’s real, and it dominates public life. It [...]
Some reflections and questions about Notre Dame’s “refreshed” staff values

Larry Chapp November 20, 2025 38
On the surprising sanity of Bill Gates on climate change…

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. November 16, 2025 73

The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 145

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...]
The Future of Synodality

Carl E. Olson September 7, 2025 54
Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 130

Museum offers an immersive, evidence-based experience of the Shroud of Turin

The repose of Archimandrite Nicholas Zachariadis, a monastic pioneer

Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’

Artificial Womb Technology: Daedalus Revisited

Seven things to know about St. John of Damascus, the last Church Father

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