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Belloc’s great gift

December 21, 2015 Russell Shaw 0

Chatting with a British bishop who’d said the famous Catholic writer  Hilaire Belloc sometimes came to his home when he was a child to visit his father, a friend, I asked the obvious question: What was […]

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Advent with Cardinal Daniélou

December 13, 2015 Carl E. Olson 0

Jean Cardinal Daniélou’s The Advent of Salvation, originally published simply as Advent in 1950, may be the best $3.00 purchase I’ve ever made. The out-of-print book is a classic work on the meaning of Advent. […]

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Clergy have consciences, too

December 12, 2015 Edward N. Peters 0

Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich is not a heretic. Although that adjective is being tossed his way with some frequency these days, there is no evidence that Cupich doubts or denies some doctrine that must be […]

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What Makes the Church Grow?

December 9, 2015 Bishop Robert Barron 0

Just recently on the website maintained by the episcopal conference of Germany there appeared an editorial concerning Pope Francis’s apostolic visit to Africa. As many have pointed out, the piece was breathtaking in its arrogance […]

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The empiricists and their rubes

December 8, 2015 Thomas M. Doran 0

Catholic World Report recently published my mischievously titled “Why we’d all be Catholic if we really thought about it”, to which no small number of atheistic empiricists replied with loud roars. There’s no lack today […]

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Most words are not crimes

December 7, 2015 Edward N. Peters 0

I am not sure what Archbishop Rino Fisichella meant when he said that “we need to understand well ‘physical violence’ [against the pope] because sometimes words, too, are rocks and stones, and therefore I believe […]