Dave Brubeck, legendary jazz pianist and pioneer, died earlier today on the cusp of his 92nd birthday. From the Chicago Tribune: Dave Brubeck, a jazz musician who attained pop-star acclaim with recordings such as “Take […]
From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, (VIS) – God’s “benevolent plan” for mankind, which begins St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, was the theme of the Holy Father’s catechesis at today’s general audience. The great […]
Jonathan V. Last, editor of the Weekly Standard and author of the forthcoming book, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting (Encounter, 2013), comments in his e-letter today about the recent report from the Pew […]
“The time may come when we date the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet system from the appearance of Gulag,” wrote a German reviewer of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment […]
A few days ago, CWR was pleased to publish “Musica Sacra”, a fine profile of the Catholic composer, James MacMillian. The author, Kevin McCormick, is himself a talented musician (classical guitar, among other instruments) and […]
Sure, National Public Radio did not publish novelist Colm Toibin’s novella, The Testament Of Mary; it was published last month by Scribner. But NPR seems to love it. No, make that: NPR really loves it! […]
Pope Benedict XVI issued yesterday an apostolic letter motu proprio, De Caritate Ministranda, on the Church’s charitable activities. Introduction “The Church’s deepest nature is expressed in her three-fold responsibility: of proclaiming the word of God […]
A lot could be said about Pope Benedict’s new book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives, but one thing that should not be said is that it undermines confidence in the general historicity of the […]
Jonathan Aitken, an Anglican, has penned a piece for The American Spectator praising the edgy, intellectual heights and depths of Rowan Williams and the late Cardinal Carlo Martini. The latter was not known to many […]
While more than 100 institutions and individuals—including Catholic colleges and universities—have filed suit against the Obama administration over the HHS mandate, the president of Gonzaga University announced last week to faculty and staff that the […]
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