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The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II

April 1, 2025 Carl E. Olson 19

Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005. […]

The Dispatch

The reason and reality of the Nativity

December 24, 2024 James V. Schall, S.J. 16

Eventually, when the Incarnation of the Son of Man is rejected, the rejection of man inevitably follows. This abolition of man is what we are […]

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Chronological snobbery and the empty tomb

March 30, 2024 Carl E. Olson 15

On the readings for Easter Sunday, The Resurrection of the Lord, April 1, 2018 […]

Chapp's Schtick

Contemplating Guardini’s manifesto of a melancholic

February 23, 2024 Larry Chapp 42

“Melancholy is too painful, reaches too deeply into the roots of human experience to permit us to leave it to the psychiatrists.” — Romano Guardini, The Human Experience (Cluny Media, 2018) The word “melancholy”, in its […]

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How Tolkien influenced the conversion to Christianity of his friend C.S. Lewis

January 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The exhibition “Tolkien: Man, Teacher, Author” runs through Feb. 11, 2024, at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. / Credit: Almudena Martínez-Bordiú/ACI Prensa

ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 23, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
One of the… […]

Books

A broadly catholic panorama for seriously Catholic readers

August 5, 2023 Ken Jones 2

The late Fr. James Schall, S.J., was a master essayist, in the grand tradition of English letters. In the introduction to one of his collections of essays, Fr. Schall remarks: The chapters in this book […]

The Dispatch

Can we simply drop the Ascension story?

May 17, 2023 Sean Fitzpatrick 27

The Ascension of Jesus Christ, related in the Gospels of Mark and Luke and referred to throughout the New Testament, can be taken as something of an awkward anecdote in the Catholic canon. “And when […]

The Dispatch

Selfless love in the face of That Hideous Strength

May 5, 2023 Julian Kwasniewski 1

In That Hideous Strength (1945), the third volume of his Space Trilogy (1938-1945), C. S. Lewis follows the diverging paths of newlyweds Mark and Jane Studdock as they become embroiled in the cosmic forces battling […]

Essay

Apocalypse Now: Living in Hope at the End of an Age

April 6, 2023 Francis X. Maier 21

Tranquility in the Church is a rare and beautiful thing, with an emphasis on that word, “rare.” And this explains why two of my favorite saints are Francis of Assisi and Augustine of Hippo. Both […]

Columns

The evidence shows that anti-human beliefs are destroying lives

January 8, 2023 James Kalb 15

The recent ceremony at the White House for signing the so-called Respect for Marriage Act encapsulates the state of public thought today. The Act requires the federal and state governments to treat same-sex “marriages” as […]

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Revisiting Benedict XVI’s three encyclicals

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The good folks at Catholic Pulse asked me to write an essay reflecting on the three encyclicals of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and that essay has now been posted. Rather than just recap the three […]

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