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Returning to Joseph Ratzinger’s timeless What It Means to Be a Christian

February 5, 2022 Conor Dugan 3

It is all here: The understanding of the radical eruption of God in the world through the Incarnation. The necessity of faith to purify reason and that we have a reasoned faith. The recognition of […]

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Contemplative Realism: A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto

February 3, 2022 Joshua Hren 7

Note: The Benedict XVI Institute is launching Contemplative Realism: A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto with a Book Event on February 23. Check out the BXVI Institute page to support the movement and sign this condensed version of […]

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We Move Together: A review of Long Rules: An Essay in Verse

January 29, 2022 James Matthew Wilson 1

A young Virginian well versed in folk, blues, and country music, but recognizing Catholic “prayers and melodies just from [his] scant / neighborliness with the Episcopal Church / as a child,” for some reason begins […]

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Cardinal Müller: “Behind the euthanasia movements is the negation of God…”

January 24, 2022 CWR Staff 7

Editor’s note: On January 12, 2022, Cardinal Gerhard Müller was interviewed by Lothar C. Rilinger for kath.net. That interview was translated for CWR by Frank Nitsche-Robinson and is published here in full. In the summer […]

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Catholics and conscience in the midst of fear and coercion

January 23, 2022 Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. 22

In late March 2020, Eric “Smith” 1 was getting his sixth-grade theology class ramped up on Zoom. The plan for the day was to build sufficient student understanding of the ten commandments first, then set […]

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Marching toward a different future

January 19, 2022 George Weigel 18

The annual March for Life in Washington began in 1974 — and it’s hard to think of a more admirable or consistent public witness to the dignity of the human person being given for so […]

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Thinking with the early Church Fathers

January 16, 2022 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 5

For Byzantine Christians living in the northern hemisphere, it’s a bit unfortunate that January abounds with absolutely top-tier thinkers, as we can so easily overlook them in the holiday haze. These luminaries deserve more attention. […]

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Mark Twain’s correct solution to the race problem

January 13, 2022 Russell Shaw 39

Here is today’s quiz: What 19th-century novel points the way to a lasting solution to the racial tensions afflicting America today? If you said Uncle Tom’s Cabin, you’re wrong. As President Lincoln remarked, Harriet Beecher […]

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“Strange Rites” and the promise of natural religion

January 11, 2022 Bishop Robert Barron 24

Along with many other cultural commentators, I have been tracing for the past many years the phenomenon of religious disaffiliation, the sobering fact that armies of people, especially the young, are leaving institutional religion behind. […]

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Pascal, intellectuals, and the love of God

January 8, 2022 Chilton Williamson, Jr. 21

Intellectual work is performed principally by four categories of people. The first is wise men: men of contemplation, true philosophers whose end is the discovery of truth. These have been for the most part the […]

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