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New book highlights inspiring, challenging stories of six Black Catholics

February 25, 2021 Carl E. Olson 7

Michael R. Heinlein is editor of Our Sunday Visitor’s Simply Catholic and author of several OSV booklets and pamphlets. He is also author of a forthcoming children’s book series on theology and a forthcoming biography […]

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Febronianism revisited: A brief and cautionary history

February 1, 2021 Tracey Rowland 11

In a recent interview posted by CWR, Cardinal Gerhard Müller remarked: Since the eighteenth century, along with absolutism, we have even in Catholic France, Austria and Bavaria the unholy tradition of the official state church […]

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“Make everything count for eternity’: The story of Fr. Francis X. Lasance

January 23, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 7

St. Joseph Calasanctius, founder of the Piarist order and the patron saint of Catholic schools, once wrote, “All suffering is slight to gain Heaven.” St. Agapitus, a third-century martyr who was tortured with hot coals […]

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City of splendor and filth: A review of The Accursed Tower

January 9, 2021 Timothy D. Lusch 4

In 1108 Tughtegin, the Turkic atabeg of Damascus, offered to trade Gervase of Bezoches, the captured crusader Prince of Galilee, for the city of Acre (and two smaller possessions). Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, refused. […]

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Pius XII, the New Vatican Archives, and the “hypologists”

January 8, 2021 Matteo Luigi Napolitano 7

Church history is a very strange phenomenon. It does not matter whether your academic position classifies you as an historian. If you are a Christian you risk having the label “apologist” put on your work, […]

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A World Alive: How Tolkien transformed England-as-Elfland into Middle-earth

December 18, 2020 Sandra Miesel 2

Middle-earth is almost as vivid a character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s work as any sentient being who walks upon it. Its finely detailed vistas read like descriptions of actual places. The believability of the setting invites […]

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Film on Hopkins introduces 19th-century Jesuit priest and poet to wider audience

December 6, 2020 Edward Short 11

A new EWTN film about the Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) seeks to introduce the unique nineteenth-century Victorian-era writer to a wider audience. The film was made by Dr. Andrew Nash, who […]

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The little known and often-surprising history of Catholic Confederates

December 3, 2020 Piers Shepherd 20

There exists a stereotypical image of the American South as a militantly Protestant and strongly anti-Catholic environment. Gracjan Kraszewski’s fascinating book Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War South should do much to […]

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New history of Catholics in the United States full of scholarship, insight, humor

November 25, 2020 Bradley J. Birzer 3

Dr. Kevin Starr (1940-2017) was an amazingly prolific, talented, and innovative historian. His books on California, especially the five-volume California Dream series, which he completed while he was California State Historian, remain models of true […]

Features

November 1920-2020: A Century of Abortion in Russia

November 17, 2020 Dr. Paul Kengor 15

Kudos to Rachel’s Vineyard and the Sisters in Jesus the Lord (as well as Jennifer Roback Morse at the Ruth Institute) for marking the centennial of a tragic moment. It was 100 years ago, November […]

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