Unless you’ve been living in a cave blocked by a rock (and if so, maybe get out of there), you’ve heard about, and likely have already seen, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. The adaptation of Homer’s three-thousand-year-old […]
Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally at CWR on December 26, 2023. In a recent BBC interview, Anthony Fauci reflects on his own “complicated” relationship with the Catholic Church. Fauci and the reporter are […]
In second-century Phrygia, a group of spiritual Catholics—the Montanists—claimed a greater authority than the institutional Church. Montanus and his two prophetesses said they had new and direct revelations from God: The end was nigh, and […]
On June 15, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced a social media ban for children under 16 in Britain. Beginning in early 2027, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, and other similar platforms will […]
In the weeks leading up to the conclave that would elect Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost, the New York Times published an article with the headline: “As Cardinals Prepare to Elect a Pope, One Motto Is ‘Unity.’ […]
In his Introduction to the Devout Life, Saint Francis de Sales recounts the following story about the fourteenth-century saint Elzear of Sabran: When the blessed Elzear, Count of the Provence of Arian, had been long separated […]
In the wake of Flannery O’Connor’s death on March 25, 1965, the Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton said, “When I read Flannery O’Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, […]
As the saying goes: When a person tells you who they are, believe them. So I argued after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, last year. Standing on the loggia of […]
In December 2024, I had the great fortune of venerating the skull of one of my great spiritual and intellectual heroes: Saint Thomas Aquinas. We had gathered up our four kids in the minivan, driven […]
On December 31, 2022—three years ago today—the world lost one of the greatest Catholic leaders of the past century: Pope Benedict XVI. But, in addition to his many pastoral roles as priest, bishop, prefect of […]
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