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Dr. Sean M. Salai, D.Min, is a pastoral theologian and former Jesuit. He is the culture reporter at The Washington Times.
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Raising children in an age of anxiety and a culture of individualism

February 25, 2025 Sean Salai 2

Timothy P. Carney is the father of six children, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a columnist at the Washington Examiner. A Catholic raised in New York City, he lives with his […]

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Survey finds the economy worries Americans more than cultural issues

February 6, 2025 Sean Salai 22

Americans have grown more worried about their pocketbooks and less concerned about the culture wars over the past decade, an annual family values survey has found. Deseret News reported Thursday that 71% of adults responding to a […]

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Children’s book offers the first “lives of saints’ animals”

December 27, 2024 Sean Salai 2

Alexi Sargeant is a Catholic high school humanities teacher in Hyattsville, Maryland. He and his wife, writer Leah Libresco Sargeant, have three young children. Mr. Sargeant, a former assistant editor at First Things, holds a […]

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New book details the silencing of a brilliant, outspoken Jesuit 

October 22, 2024 Sean Salai 22

Jesuit leaders asked the late Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J., to either stop defending Catholic teachings on hot-button social issues or leave their religious order. A candid new book shows he chose to obey, but with […]

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Defending the necessity of baptism: An interview with Fr. Anthony Lusvardi, S.J.

October 16, 2024 Sean Salai 18

Rev. Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J. is an American Jesuit priest who teaches sacramental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He holds a B.A. in English and philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, […]

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Catholic sociologist’s book stirs debate over the value of marriage

June 20, 2024 Sean Salai 24

A recent book from a Catholic sociologist has stirred intense debate over its argument that marriage remains the quickest path to financial success and happiness for Americans. Brad Wilcox argues in Get Married: Why Americans […]

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A thoughtful, faithful guide to understanding suffering

April 12, 2024 Sean Salai 1

“Suffering is, in itself, an experience of evil,” Pope St. John Paul II once said. These words open the first chapter of the recent book Suffering: What Every Catholic Should Know. They also set the […]

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Lost Tomie dePaola art enlivens beautiful new lives of the saints

November 18, 2023 Sean Salai 1

A new “lives of the saints” book has resurrected the late Tomie dePaola’s unpublished illustrations for one last adventure. A lifelong New Englander, DePaola was the rare Catholic children’s artist who also achieved mainstream fame, […]

Books

The Cardinal who stared down Communism

April 2, 2023 Sean Salai 5

At the start of the 1955 British film The Prisoner, a regal cardinal played by Alec Guinness finds Communist secret police waiting for him as he walks out of Mass in an anonymous Central European […]

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Catholic maternity hospital in Bethlehem carries on work amid serious challenges

December 21, 2022 Sean Salai 3

Ambassador Michele Burke Bowe is the Order of Malta’s ambassador to Palestine and president of the Holy Family Hospital Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the only maternity hospital in the West Bank area of Israel. […]

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