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Beyond Kristin Lavransdatter: Sigrid Undset as convert, intellectual, reader of hearts

July 9, 2026 Rachel Hoover Canto 4

Editor’s note: Bishop Fredrik Hansen of Oslo recently announced the canonization cause for author Sigrid Undset (1882-1949). In this August 23, 2022, interview, Vivian Dudro, Senior Editor at Ignatius Press, discusses Fr. Aidan Nichols, O.P.’s […]

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“What is the mark of a Christian?”

August 9, 2025 Carl E. Olson 7

Readings: • Wis 18:6-9 • Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 • Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 • Lk 12:32-48 “What is the mark of a Christian?” asked St. Basil in his work, Moralia, which is a guide to […]

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From Islam to the Catholic Church: One Turkish woman shares her story of faith

August 21, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Belkız, 61, was born into a Muslim family in Turkey. After reading books on materialist philosophy in her youth, she became an atheist at 15 but eventually became a Christian and then a Catholic. / Credit: Nathalie Ritzmann

ACI MENA, Aug 21, 2… […]

Analysis

Eroticism and the Paris Olympics: A reflection in the light of Augusto Del Noce

August 5, 2024 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke 37

Eroticism is a fundamental feature of contemporary Western civilization. This is not clearly recognized by the majority and is thoroughly rejected by elite opinion.1 To attempt a serious discussion of the matter in the media […]

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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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Rome to host 7th Day of the Catacombs, opportunity to reflect on early Christians

February 19, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

An archaeological guide provided historical information and answered questions during a visit to the catacombs by delegates of the Synod on Synodality. Early Christians gathered within the catacombs for funeral rites and to honor the martyrs. Ro… […]

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Pakistan ends mandatory Islamic studies for non-Muslim students

January 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Security forces guard St. John’s Catholic Church in Youhanabad, Lahore, Pakistan, in 2019. / Credit: Aid to the Church in Need

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 26, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA).
Pakistan is ending its mandatory study of Islam for non-Mus… […]

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Pope Francis: After 2,000 years the persecution of Christians continues

December 26, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis gives a blessing after he delivers his Angelus address to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Dec. 26, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Dec 26, 2023 / 11:05 am (CNA).
During Tuesday’s Angelus on the occasion of t… […]

Essay

Indiana Jones movies and Raiders of the Lost Ark: Why the original still stands alone

June 30, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 20

I was 12 when Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in 1981, and it changed my relationship with movies. I was already an avid moviegoer; what’s more, between the first two films in the Star […]

History

“The Children of Disobedience”: America and the Second Great Awakening

October 29, 2022 Michael D. Greaney 17

Progressives and forward-looking elites pride themselves on being or becoming “woke.” In common with other advocates of supposedly new and improved products and ideas, however, contempt for anything other than their own opinions often leads […]

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Do you think Melinda Gates has enough money to buy a copy of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church? If not, perhaps those professors at Georgetown who took it upon themselves to send a […]

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