Features
John Henry Newman’s long war on liberalism
Blessed John Henry Newman’s devastating critique of liberal religion remains even more relevant in our own time. […]
History
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“Chernobyl” offers a grim, dramatic indictment of socialism
Back in 1986, the Turkish government had to stop giving me and other elementary school children tiny packages of hazelnuts because somewhere in the USSR something had exploded, and somehow that explosion had poisoned the […]
History
The Unapologetic Apologist: Five lessons from St. Justin Martyr
Our forebears in the Faith were much stronger than us morally and spiritually. Not for them the lax observance and flaccid sentimentality that characterize so […]
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The dramatic story of the priest who died on a Vietnam battlefield
In his death on the battlefield and in all his time serving men in battle, Fr.Vincent Capodanno completely ignored the basic instinct for survival. He […]
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The solitary and sacrificial witness of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter
Jesus told His apostles: “You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved” (Matt 10: 22). It is difficult to think of another venerated Catholic […]
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St. Peter Damian’s battle against clerical homosexuality offers useful lessons for today
When the eremitic monk and reformer Peter Damian cast his critical gaze upon the Catholic Church of the mid-eleventh century, he encountered a panorama of corruption that would have appeared daunting even to the most […]
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Wise Men from the East and the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord
We Three Kings of Orient are, Bearing gifts we traverse afar. . . . Who were these gift-bearing kings, these Wise Men of the East? What has their mission meant to Christians across the ages? […]
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You Better Watch Out—St. Nicholas is Coming to Town
Everyone loves jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas. There is something romantic and cozy about telling Santa stories around the crackling fire. He is an icon of the Christmas season. But not everyone agrees about the real […]
Essay
The Season of the Dead: The origins and practice of Allhallowtide
We’ve grown to think of our American experience of Halloween—with its focus on horror themes, costumes, candy, and decorations—as normative. In fact, it’s a product of the 20th century media-saturated consumer-oriented appropriation of Catholic feasts […]
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Three Common Myths about Archbishop Oscar Romero
On Sunday, Pope Francis will canonize seven new saints. The best-known of them are Pope Paul VI (1897-1978), who served the Church as supreme pontiff from 1963 to 1978, and Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980), the […]