Analysis

Redefining marriage in Italy is not so easy

February 10, 2016 Enza Ferreri 0

Recently Catholic World Report published an article by Italian journalist Alessandra Nucci on how “Italy is the last remaining nation in Western Europe to hold out against the recognition of civil partnerships” and how the […]

Essay

An invitation to a Roman Lent

February 10, 2016 George Weigel 0

It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since my son, Stephen, and I spent two months in Rome – all of Lent and Easter Week – preparing a book that would allow readers […]

Essay

Silence in the Liturgy

February 10, 2016 Cardinal Robert Sarah 1

In an essay published in Italian in L’Osservatore Romano on January 30, 2016, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, discusses the meaning of silence in […]

Opinion

Apologia Pro Unia

February 9, 2016 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 0

In 2010 Ignatius Press published the second (and much improved) edition of Fr. Aidan Nichols’ book Rome and the Eastern Churches. The book remains one of the most perceptive and sympathetic—but not uncritical—treatments of East-West […]

Essay

Why We Need Lent

February 9, 2016 Fr. George William Rutler 0

Editor’s note: This essay appears in He Spoke to Us: Discerning God’s Will in People and Events, by Father George William Rutler. It was originally published in Crisis Magazine, March 1, 2001. Lenten days bring two images immediately to […]

Essay

The Great Lent

February 9, 2016 Dr. Thomas Howard 0

Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Evangelical Is Not Enough. Presently Lent arrives. This is the forty days leading up to Easter, which also recall the forty days of Christ’s temptation in the wilderness. There […]

Film & Music

O Christ, Where Are Thou?

February 7, 2016 Lauren Enk Mann 0

Hail, Caesar! is the much-anticipated addition to the canon of the famed Coen brothers’ films—a list which includes both dramas like True Grit and quirky cult classics like O Brother, Where Art Thou? Their latest movie certainly bears that clever […]