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Jennifer Fulwiler on big families, the Mommy Wars, and “wholeness of vision” amid family chaos
The best-selling author’s new book is about pursuing your passions while still putting your family first. […]
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Legislative chaplaincies and First Amendment’s ban on an “establishment” of religion
Some context and insights from Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) and Marsh v. Chambers (1983). […]
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Freedom is never free
Ukrainian Catholic University in Lvivm has long understood that one of its foundations is martyrdom. […]
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Going “further up and further in” to Narnia with Joseph Pearce
“In reading The Chronicles of Narnia,” says the prolific biographer and critic, “we find ourselves in the presence of great and necessary truths.” […]
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Suffering, supplication, and the necessity of “praying always”
St. Monica prayed for the conversion of her son Augustine for thirty years. How many of us would expend that kind of energy for a […]
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On Holy Friendship and “Accompaniment”
“Accompaniment” appears to offer holy friendship, but it is holy friendship on the cheap–just as we cost-benefit analyzing materialists would have it. […]
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A young Zimbabwean reflects on the pre-synodal meeting in Rome
Pope Francis encouraged the young people present to be “protagonists” in the life of the Church. […]
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Michelle Wolf and the Throwaway Culture
When we live in the space beyond good and evil, and when morality is construed as entirely the invention of personal freedom—then the will of […]
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The Death of Embryos and “The Conception Problem”
To embrace an embryo, we must conceive what has been conceived. […]
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As local elections loom, London isn’t what it used to be
Catholic social teaching isn’t the property of a single political party—but there are concerns that it is increasingly difficult to be an active Catholic in […]