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Carl E. Olson is editor of Catholic World Report and Ignatius Insight. He is the author of Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?, Will Catholics Be "Left Behind"?, co-editor/contributor to Called To Be the Children of God, co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax (Ignatius), and author of the "Catholicism" and "Priest Prophet King" Study Guides for Bishop Robert Barron/Word on Fire. His recent books on Lent and Advent—Praying the Our Father in Lent (2021) and Prepare the Way of the Lord (2021)—are published by Catholic Truth Society. The Most Asked Questions about Faith, Reason, Jesus, and the Bible, co-authored with Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., will be published by Ignatius Press in Fall 2026. He is also a contributor to "Our Sunday Visitor" newspaper, "The Catholic Answer" magazine, "The Imaginative Conservative", "The Catholic Herald", "National Catholic Register", "Chronicles", and other publications. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @carleolson.
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A short note from the Orientale Lumen Conference in D.C.

June 19, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

I’m writing this short post in the library of the Washington Retreat House in D.C. I am attending the Orientale Lumen Conference here and am giving a talk tomorrow on theosis and the role of the laity. […]

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Mormon author: “I’m perfectly happy not being a Christian.”

June 16, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

David V. Mason, an associate professor at Rhodes College and author of My Mormonism: A Primer for Non-Mormons and Mormons, Alike, lets it fly in a recent op-ed for The New York Times: This is […]

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Bishop Boyea: “We need to learn far more than we need to teach in this area.”

June 15, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

The National Catholic Register reports on “comments and objections raised by several bishops” at the USCCB meeting in Atlanta that “challenged the specificity of some heavily publicized statements”, such as Bishop Blair’s criticisms in April […]

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Cardinal George criticizes Sebelius’ declaration of “war on citizens”

June 15, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, in his June 17, 2012, column in Catholic New World, writes: Our current economic problems and political impasses bear devastating witness to a society obsessed with controlling every aspect of […]

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Vatican: SSPX has been offered a Personal Prelature

June 14, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 14 June 2012 (VIS) – “On the afternoon of Wednesday 13 June, Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and president of the […]

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Original Greek sermons by Origen of Alexandria discovered

June 14, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

From the Forget the Channel blog, which has translated the original article from the Bavarian State Library: A spectacular discovery was recently made in the Bavarian State Library, in the process of cataloguing the Greek […]

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Indivisible co-author Jay W. Richards on what is uniting Christians, dividing Americans

June 12, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

Jay W. Richards is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a contributing editor at The American magazine and the Enterprise Blog at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the co-author of Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family and […]

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Prof. Tracey Rowland awarded The Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

June 11, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

This past week, Prof. Tracey Rowland, Dean and Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Continental Theology at the John Paul II Institute (Melbourne), was honored with the The Officer’s Cross of the order of Merit […]

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It’s Time to Remember What Men Have Forgotten

June 11, 2012 Carl E. Olson 0

The following address was given at the Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally held in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday, June 8, 2012. Good afternoon! One of my heroes is the great Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, […]

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Nancy Pelosi “does religion on Sunday”, but…

June 8, 2012 Carl E. Olson 1

…  is clueless about Church teaching on all seven days of the week. From the Washington Examiner‘s “Beltway Confidentail” blog: “I do my religion on Sundays, in church, and I try to go other days […]

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