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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. […]

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J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: Inevitable greatness?

July 5, 2022 Thomas M. Doran 7

Today, when we think of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, we are likely to imagine inspired storytellers, talented scholars, committed Christians—iconic men remote from the rest of us. With such gifts, many […]

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“To stake one’s life for the truth”: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ in a narcissistic age

March 13, 2018 James Watson, Ph.D. 8

Disney’s film is nothing like Madeleine L’Engle’s strange and startling novel, a book that fleshes out the radically others-centric love inaugurated in Christianity’s revolutionary command […]

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