To better understand the the difficulties endured, Catholic World Report recently interviewed the Titular Bishop of Tarsus of the Maronites, Antoine Nabil Andari, Vicaire Patriarcal Maronite de Jounieh, Lebanon. CWR: Can you please describe the […]
Toward the end of the liturgical year, we Catholics hear at Mass from the mysterious, often confounding, and utterly fascinating book of Daniel. Recent scholarship has demonstrated that the book of Daniel had an extraordinarily […]
The ressourcement movement is arguably the most significant Catholic theological tradition of the twentieth century. Its thinkers figured prominently in shaping many of the documents of the Second Vatican Council; one of its brightest lights […]
MPAA Rating: NR USCCB Rating: NR Reel Rating: Disclaimer: Beasts of No Nation is an excellent but deeply disturbing film. It contains graphic depictions of war violence, mutilation, rape, drug use, and molestation—all […]
As I noted last month, the basic function of government, like the basic function of authority in the family, is to look after the common good of the community being governed. For that reason, policymakers […]
Pope Benedict XVI, in his September 9, 2009 general audience, noted that the Benedictine monk, cardinal, and Doctor of the Church, St. Peter Damian (1007-72), was “one of the most significant figures of the 11th […]
The recent online dust-up between author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and a number of rightly recondite Roman Catholic academics has revealed the tendency among the latter to resort to their fainting couches […]
Once, I was a theologian. But, to tell you the truth, as a believing Catholic who seeks to understand what it is she believes, I am still a theologian. I was taught this on the […]
(October 29, 2015, Bonn, kath.net/Forum Deutscher Katholiken) We are experiencing in our days a frightening decline of the Catholic Church in Germany. So many people have left the German Particular Church that it urgently needs […]
I recently returned from making the rounds in the San Francisco Bay area and beyond, where I gave some talks on my favorite writer. While there, I ventured down the coast a ways to visit […]
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