Consider the following headline: “Mississippi: Atheist faces execution for insulting Jesus on Facebook”. The alert reader will immediately recognize this as a piece of fake news. Which it is. I made it up myself. But […]
May 16, 2020, is the 100th anniversary of the canonization of St. Joan of Arc, one of the most inspiring and enigmatic figures in the history of the Church. The “Father of American Literature”, Mark […]
Bishop Joseph Strickland, 61, is Bishop of Tyler Texas. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Dallas in 1985, and was named Bishop of Tyler in 2012. Despite being from a relatively small […]
Randall Smith’s recent CWR essay, entitled “Distance Education: It’s a long way from real education” (May 12, 2020), makes some valuable points about student learning. Smith is a wonderful scholar and teacher. I admire him […]
Some people ask me what I think about teaching online. I ask them how they like watching Mass online. “Really, that bad?” they reply. “No, actually, if you can believe it,” I tell them, “it […]
Silent Angel is the hauntingly beautiful work of historical fiction, written by Antonia Arslan and translated by Siobhan Nash-Marshall, which tells of the Armenian genocide of 1915-23 in which 1,500,000 people were brutally murdered. It […]
The invitation arrived in early 2018, and I could not have been more grateful. Father James Lloyd, the world’s oldest living Paulist priest, was writing to announce a special event, to be held “in the […]
Update (September 1, 2020): The film PRAY: The Story of Patrick Peyton will be released in theaters on October 9th. See the film’s website for further details. Family Theater Productions is preparing for the theatrical […]
A couple of years ago, I read about three women at an online magazine. These women were all very successful, secular career women, but each expressed a deep discontentment with her life. One said she […]
Editor’s note: The month marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła on May 18, 1920, in the Polish town of Wadowice. Throughout this month, CWR will […]
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