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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. 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 Twitter @carleolson.
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How narrow is the way of the Cross?

August 23, 2025 Carl E. Olson 6

Readings: • Is 66:18-21 • Ps 117:1, 2 • Heb 12:5-7, 11-13 • Lk 13:22-30 Over the past few weeks, we have heard, in the readings from the Gospel according to St. Luke, about Jesus […]

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The Purifying Fire of Dividing, Divine Love

August 16, 2025 Carl E. Olson 4

Readings: • Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 • Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18 • Heb 12:1-4 • Lk 12:49-53 In the summer of 2007, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a document containing “responses to some […]

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The Blessed Virgin Mary: Sinless by grace, saved by grace, assumed by grace

August 15, 2025 Carl E. Olson 54

On the Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 2018 […]

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“What is the mark of a Christian?”

August 9, 2025 Carl E. Olson 7

Readings: • Wis 18:6-9 • Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 • Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 • Lk 12:32-48 “What is the mark of a Christian?” asked St. Basil in his work, Moralia, which is a guide to […]

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The Godless Confusion and the God of Justice

July 26, 2025 Carl E. Olson 7

Readings: • Gn 18:20-32 • Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8 • Col 2:12-14 • Lk 11:1-13 According to atheist Richard Dawkins in his best-selling book The God Delusion, the God of the Old Testament is […]

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A Kaleidoscope of Recollections of George Cardinal Pell

July 23, 2025 Carl E. Olson 1

The late Cardinal Pell was a larger-than-life figure known for his outspoken orthodoxy and bluntness, as well as for being infamously jailed and then dramatically exonerated by the Australian courts. But what was Pell like […]

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Mary, Martha, and “the better part”

July 19, 2025 Carl E. Olson 5

Readings: • Gen 18:1-10a • Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 • Col 1:24-28 • Lk 10:38-42 Americans are, in general, a pragmatic and practical people. We know how to get things done, how to organize, how […]

Books

A Christian Consideration of Critical Theory

July 17, 2025 Carl E. Olson 13

In Carl R. Trueman’s most recent book, titled To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory From Marx to Marcuse (B&H Academic, 2024), the noted scholar and author hones in on the much-discussed but not always well-understood history, foundations, […]

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The noble heart and the Good Samaritan

July 12, 2025 Carl E. Olson 0

Readings: • Deut 30:10-14 • Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37 • Col 1:15-20 • Lk 10:25-37 “The heart,” wrote St. John Chrysostom, “is the most noble of all the members of our body.” […]

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Proclaiming the Kingdom in the splendor of the Son

July 5, 2025 Carl E. Olson 1

Readings: • Is 66:10-14c • Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 • Gal 6:14-18 • Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 Anyone who has seen a sunrise from a viewpoint overlooking a grand vista knows the wonder of […]

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