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Martin Luther’s flawed understanding of natural law: A response to Dr. Korey D. Maas

April 4, 2018 Timothy J. Gordon 10

Voluntarism denies the Catholic teaching that logos constitutes—rather than delimits—God’s nature, and Luther was a volunarist. […]

The Dispatch

Air turbulence and the Resurrection

April 4, 2018 George Weigel 6

It’s not possible to know the Risen Lord and to indulge in despair. […]

Features

Christ’s question to us during Holy Week: “Do you love me?”

March 28, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 3

Much of Lent is focused on Baptism, where our love affair with the Triune God had its beginning. The baptismal font, however, leads inexorably to […]

The Dispatch

The Vatican’s Viganò Problem

March 18, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 16

The Prefect of the Secretariat for Communication of the Holy See has a communication problem. Specifically, he has a hard time telling the truth. […]

Analysis

Liturgical Vision vs. Liturgical Visions: Vatican II, Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Sarah

March 15, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 39

Why I believe that the loss of the sense of the sacred is the primary reason why we have lost millions of Catholics to faithful […]

Carl’s Cuts

Carl’s Cuts: On Schmemann’s Lent, Billy Graham’s death, Madeleine L’Engle’s “Wrinkle”, and Cardinal Cupich’s column

March 12, 2018 Carl E. Olson 14

Confessions, observations, and animadversions on this, that, and the other. […]

The Dispatch

Cardinal Zen: Chinese Catholics’ “continuous harassments…would take volumes to be narrated.”

March 9, 2018 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 14

I would like the express my gratitude to Cardinal Zen for agreeing to answer a few questions for Catholic World Report at this crucial moment in the history of the Catholic Church in China. Over […]

Books

A Papacy of Contradictions

March 2, 2018 Dr. Samuel Gregg 36

Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church. […]

Essay

The Francis Reformation

February 28, 2018 Dr. Douglas Farrow 43

We will not get far by asking whether the Church is to be a Church of the poor and a Church of the merciful. Of […]

The Dispatch

“America” magazine’s survey of women in the Church

February 13, 2018 Bishop Robert Barron 14

An intriguing finding of the survey is that most Catholic women consider the care for the poor and the Eucharist as the two most essential […]

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The following is a Statement by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco on the release of the Encyclical “Laudato Si’” ————— It is gratifying to us in the City of St. Francis that the […]

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