Dr. John W. Carlson is a professor of philosophy at Creighton University. He is the author of Understanding Our Being: Introduction to Speculative Philosophy in the Perennial Tradition and the recently published Words of Wisdom: […]
This Keynote Address was given at the Baccalaureate Mass and Commencement for St. John Bosco High School (Silverton, Oregon), held at Mount Angel Abbey on Friday, June 1, 2012. Thank you, Rolando. And thank you, […]
Ruben Quezada is the author of For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada—The Cristero War and Mexico’s Struggle for Religious Freedom. He is Director for the Catholic Resource Center and St. Joseph Communications, Inc. […]
News of the cancellation of the Lady Gaga concert scheduled for early June in Jakarta, Indonesia is receiving a lullingly uniform spin in the American and international media. It is, we are told, a morality […]
The contrast could hardly have been more jarring. In a televised White House interview on Wednesday, May 9, President Barack Obama claimed that, having gone through an evolution on the issue, he had concluded, “it […]
After decades of seeing their Church maligned in cinema, Catholic moviegoers have enjoyed a smattering of pro-Catholic movies in recent years. The latest of these, For Greater Glory starring Andy Garcia, will be released in the […]
As far as anyone knows, the gates of North Korea’s notorious gulags, or kwalliso, do not have the words “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work makes you free”) emblazoned above them, as the ones to Auschwitz did, […]
[Editor’s Note: This article was originally published one year ago in the May 2011 issue of Catholic World Report.] New York City is the abortion capital of America. More than 40 percent of pregnancies in New York […]
Marvel’s The Avengers took in $207.4 million on its opening weekend, smashing the previous box office record for an opening weekend held by the most recent Harry Potter film. Does it live up to the […]
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat Free Press (New York, 2012) 337 pages. In a 2005 study conducted by sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, they found that […]
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