It is always a good day when John the Baptist shows up in the liturgical calendar! In fact, as you may know, he has more feasts than anybody else apart from the Lord and His […]
Having previously written for CWR what I think a very strong defense of communities where the so-called Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) or the “extraordinary form of the Roman Rite” are the norm, you might think […]
Ines Angeli Murzaku has studied and written for many years about the history of Catholicism in Eastern Europe. Her new book, titled Mother Teresa, Saint of the Peripheries and published recently by Paulist Press, is […]
Many readers here, I’m guessing, do not have access to, or make a regular habit of reading, dark and dolorous articles in scholarly journals devoted to the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church in […]
For more than a dozen years I have taught a course titled “Eastern Christian Encounters with Islam”. The course aims to show the complicated history between Eastern Christians and Muslims in such countries as Syria, […]
Jared Ortiz is Associate Professor of Religion at Hope College and founder and executive director of the Saint Benedict Institute. He is the author of You Made Us for Yourself: Creation in St Augustine’s Confessions (Fortress Press, […]
D.W. Winnicott (1896-1971) differed from most clinicians of his generation by not rejecting his Christian upbringing. Unlike Freud’s famous (and jejune) dismissal of religion, Winnicott realized that images and notions of God come naturally to […]
We have just marked the fiftieth anniversary of the death of one of the most influential figures in 20th-century psychology. D.W. Winnicott (1896-1971) was a pediatrician and psychoanalyst who made important contributions to our understandings […]
John Anthony McGuckin is without doubt one of the world’s leading scholars of Eastern Christianity, patristics, and Church history. Having taught at Columbia and Union Seminary in New York City, he returned to his native […]
There are two “laws” about the papacy that have always intrigued me, and both of them popped up in the news recently. Both of them have long ensured that the history of the papacy is […]
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