From a CNA/EWTN News piece, quoting Ann Carey: Carey said that after Vatican II, members of many religious orders began to live in apartments and find their own jobs, separate from a corporate apostolate such […]
Author and journalist Ann Carey, who has for many years researched and covered the situation of women’s religious in the U.S., reacted yesterday to the news of the CDF statement about the LCWR and the […]
“How can you join a church that tells you how to think?” The question, uttered with equal parts puzzlement and anger, surprised me. In hindsight, it should have been about as surprising as an afternoon […]
Readers who have enjoyed the “Ecclesia et Civitas” columns by James Kalb for CWR will want to read his essay,“After Liberalism: Notes Toward Reconstruction”, now available on FirstPrinciplesJournal.com. There is plenty to chew on and consider. Here […]
Dr. Brad Birzer, professor of American history (Hillsdale), author of several fine biographies and collector of great music, recently interviewed the talented composer and classical guitarist (and good friend), Kevin McCormick, about faith and art: How […]
From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 18 April 2012 (VIS) – Returning to a recent series of catecheses on the theme of prayer, Benedict XVI dedicated his general audience this morning to what has been […]
UPDATED (April 22, 2012): Charles Colson died yesterday, Saturday, April 21st, at the age of 80. From Christianity Today: Over the span of several decades, Colson became one of evangelicalism’s most influential voices within the […]
From Deacon Keith Fournier at Catholic.org, drawing on material posted on the Rorate Caeli blog: VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) – One day after the celebration of the 85th birthday of the Pope of Christian unity, on […]
Christianity Today has a wide-ranging interview with Ross Douthat about his new book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Free Press). Here are a couple of excerpts: Douthat has taken his own […]
From an essay by George Weigel, “Framing the Religious-Liberty Issue”, posted today on NRO: The Ad Hoc Committee’s statement also underscores that what the bishops are seeking to clarify for all Americans is a fundamental […]
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