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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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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A new “lives of the saints” book has resurrected the late Tomie dePaola’s unpublished illustrations for one last adventure.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. […]

Books

New book presents the Sistine Chapel as an artistic revolution

December 9, 2022 Sean Salai 4

The heavenly art of the Sistine Chapel masks a human competition that produced the greatest creative work in history, according to a new book from a leading Italian Renaissance scholar. The walls of the small […]

Features

The Vocations Lady: A conversation with Rhonda Gruenewald

August 23, 2021 Sean Salai 7

Rhonda Gruenewald is a Houston-based Catholic convert, wife, and mother of two children who founded the organization Vocation Ministry. A former high school English teacher, she has now collaborated with thousands of vocation promoters and […]

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Did the Boomers ruin America? An interview with Helen Andrews

February 10, 2021 Sean Salai 49

Helen Andrews is an Eastern Orthodox writer who serves as senior editor at The American Conservative and author of the new book Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster (January 2021). Holding a B.A. […]

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“Death is pregnant with life and with love because of what Christ has done for us…”

November 16, 2020 Sean Salai 1

Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble, F.S.P. is a former atheist who is now a religious sister with the Daughters of St. Paul. She lives in Boston, where she serves as an editor for Pauline Books and […]

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Hans Urs von Balthasar, Covid-19, and the redemption of human anxiety

October 25, 2020 Sean Salai 14

Sister Gill Goulding, C.J., belongs to the Congregatio Jesu, a religious order of women missionaries who follow the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, and serves as a professor of Systematic Theology in the Jesuit […]

Features

Treat politicians the same as priests in sexual misconduct allegations

May 28, 2020 Sean Salai 52

Yesterday, I published an op-ed in The Washington Times online edition, asking Democrats not to repeat the mistakes of the Catholic Church with Tara Reade. It appeared in the newspaper’s print edition this morning. Many […]

Interview

The courageous witness of “The Lion of Münster”

February 16, 2017 Sean Salai 0

Father Daniel Utrecht, C.O., is a priest of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, Toronto. He is a graduate of the University of Dallas (B.A., Philosophy), and the University of Toronto (Ph.D., philosophy). He joined the […]

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