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Catholic. And Charismatic.

May 24, 2025 Carl E. Olson 12

Readings: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Psa. 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 Rev. 21:10-14, 22-23 Jn. 14:23-29 What is the largest body of charismatic Christians in the world? And when did the charismatic, or Pentecostal, movement begin? With […]

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In Newman’s Home

May 22, 2025 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 3

Contemporary theology receives its purpose from God. It receives its shape from St. John Henry Newman, who, as Joseph Ratzinger stated on the English cardinal’s centenary in 1990, made “his decisive contribution to the renewal […]

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Getting foreign aid right 

May 21, 2025 George Weigel 38

Rhetorical restraint is not prominent in Washington these days. Given the volatile personalities involved and the escalatory effects of social media, one hesitates to declare that the apogee of apoplexy has been reached — or […]

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The Hell of Overthinking

May 19, 2025 Tod Worner 14

I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.—Fyodor Dostoevsky Years ago, in a pique of weight lifting enthusiasm, I stumbled across an intriguing interview in Muscle and Fitness […]