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Contemplating our calling for labor, leisure and love

August 13, 2025 Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. 7

Having spent nearly a quarter century teaching on college campuses, I have learned that eighteen to twenty-two-year-olds have forever wrestled with three existential questions: “Who created me?” “For what purpose?” “How do I know?” These […]

Features

Report states an average of 30 Christians murdered each day in Nigeria in 2025

August 12, 2025 Ngala Killian Chimtom 52

A new report by the Catholic-inspired International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, asserts that at least 7,087 Christians were massacred across Nigeria in the first 220 days of 2025—a daily […]

Analysis

The Ghost of Synods Past: The Extraordinary Synod of 1969

August 11, 2025 J. J. Ziegler 12

The First Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (1967), held two years after Pope St. Paul VI instituted the Synod of Bishops, was a synod of consequence that still influences the Church today through the canonical legislation, […]

Analysis

The battle over religious education in Poland

August 10, 2025 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 11

Karol Nawrocki of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party assumed the presidency of Poland on August 6. His inauguration provides two sharp contrasts: between himself and the assorted leftists in Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s […]

Columns

The current political reality and the reset we need

August 9, 2025 James Kalb 41

Does an American political tradition still exist? It seems it must. After all, Americans have been carrying on politics together for hundreds of years. And when people do things together for such a long time, […]

Essay

Vale Bishop Peter J. Elliott (1943-2025)

August 8, 2025 Tracey Rowland 7

Editor’s note: Bishop Emeritus Peter John Elliott of Melbourne died this past Wednesday, August 6th, at Box Hill Hospital at the age of 81. Bishop Elliott was a convert to the Catholic Church, and was […]

Essay

Remembering James Hitchcock (1938-2025), Historian of Crisis and Faith

August 7, 2025 Kevin Schmiesing 7

I was saddened to learn of James Hitchcock’s death on July 14th at the age of 87. Like most people, my first encounter with the distinguished historian and author came through one of his books. […]

Analysis

Is the Shroud of Turin merely a ‘work of art’? Years of study suggest otherwise

August 6, 2025 Catholic News Agency 14

The Shroud of Turin in the Cathedral of Turin during the public opening of the Shroud on April 19 2015. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA

CNA Staff, Aug 6, 2025 / 11:14 am (CNA).
Few religious artifacts have been studied and debated as extensively a… […]

Essay

Yes, Virginia, there is a Satan: A Conversion Story, Part One

August 5, 2025 Sara S. Frear, PhD 14

Having shared the story of my healing from an eating disorder in these pages last year (“Faith by Moonlight,” September 18, 2024), I have been invited to relate how that healing led to my entry […]

Analysis

Report on “religious extremism” focuses on Catholicism, ignores Islam

August 4, 2025 Matthew Balan 48

A recent document by a European think tank decries the “accelerating financial expansion of movements working to dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.” The report, published by the Brussels-based European Parliamentary […]

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