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Rethinking Pope St. John Paul II’s call for a “new feminism”

August 23, 2025 Deborah Savage, PhD 18

In transforming culture so that it supports life, women occupy a place, in thought and action, which is unique and decisive. It depends on them to promote a “new feminism” which rejects the temptation of […]

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Western Civilization under Attack: Part One

August 19, 2025 Paul Seaton 34

Militia est vita nostra declared Job (at least in the Vulgate version of the Bible): “Our life is a constant battle.” In a similar vein, St. Augustine declared that the need for the virtue of […]

Analysis

The Ghost of Synods Past: The Extraordinary Synod of 1969

August 11, 2025 J. J. Ziegler 12

The First Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (1967), held two years after Pope St. Paul VI instituted the Synod of Bishops, was a synod of consequence that still influences the Church today through the canonical legislation, […]

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The battle over religious education in Poland

August 10, 2025 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 11

Karol Nawrocki of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party assumed the presidency of Poland on August 6. His inauguration provides two sharp contrasts: between himself and the assorted leftists in Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s […]

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Is the Shroud of Turin merely a ‘work of art’? Years of study suggest otherwise

August 6, 2025 Catholic News Agency 14

The Shroud of Turin in the Cathedral of Turin during the public opening of the Shroud on April 19 2015. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA

CNA Staff, Aug 6, 2025 / 11:14 am (CNA).
Few religious artifacts have been studied and debated as extensively a… […]

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Report on “religious extremism” focuses on Catholicism, ignores Islam

August 4, 2025 Matthew Balan 48

A recent document by a European think tank decries the “accelerating financial expansion of movements working to dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.” The report, published by the Brussels-based European Parliamentary […]

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Unwed moms and a lesson from Mother Cabrini

July 28, 2025 Dawn Beutner 21

A recent news article from PillarCatholic reported on a public spat between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Catholic schools of that country. In a circular dated July 14, […]

Analysis

Pope Leo XIV and the question of women in Holy Orders

July 16, 2025 Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D. 35

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Robert Cardinal Prevost, ascended to the papacy during a period of profound theological inquiry and heightened institutional introspection within the Church. His election took place against the backdrop of the Church’s […]

Analysis

Reality or “Reality”? A critique of Fr. David Tracy’s view of religious pluralism

June 22, 2025 Eduardo Echeverria 11

Editor’s note: The prominent Catholic theologian Fr. David Tracy (1939-2025), who was known for his writings on pluralism, religious diversity, and interreligious dialogue, died on April 29th, at the age of 86. In this essay, aspects […]

Analysis

NPR and the Shrinking of the Western Mind

June 18, 2025 Rodney Howsare 53

I have noticed something of a pattern with National Public Radio (NPR) lately: when they interview or feature religious persons, said persons tend also to be homosexual. In February 2023, Ashlee Green wrote a gushing […]

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Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk and Mahilyow is a member of one of the three English-language working groups at the Synod of Bishops, together with a number of the gathering’s most prominent voices, such as […]

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