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St. Mary of Jesus Crucified: A beacon of holiness in the Arab world

August 25, 2019 Father Seán Connolly 8

There is a common but myopic view in the West that equates the Arab World solely with Islam and, in many cases, terrorism. This skewed perspective ignores the suffering and dwindling population of Arab Christians […]

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Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation at 50

August 6, 2019 Dr. Samuel Gregg 13

“What is civilization? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms—yet. But I think I can recognize it when I see it; and I am looking at it now.” These were among the […]

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“Chernobyl” offers a grim, dramatic indictment of socialism

June 12, 2019 Derya M. Little 15

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

June 1, 2019 Dr. Edward Feser 27

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 solitary and sacrificial witness of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter

May 21, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 8

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

February 21, 2019 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 23

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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The Season of the Dead: The origins and practice of Allhallowtide

October 24, 2018 Thomas L. McDonald 46

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

October 13, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 18

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 […]

Features

9/11: When John Paul II grieved with America

September 11, 2018 Catholic News Agency 2

“I entrust to the mercy of the Most High the helpless victims of this tragedy, for whom I offered Mass this morning, invoking upon them […]

Features

Terrorism, restlessness, and Bastille Day

July 11, 2018 Jerry Salyer 12

The tantalizing lie of revolution is the idea that heaven-on-earth sits right around the corner, provided some hated class can be overthrown and then purged […]

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I. On December 20, at their request, the Editors of the London Financial Times published a column by Benedict XVI. In the L’Osservatore Romano reprint (January 3, 2013), it was entitled “Christians Without Compromise.” At […]

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