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Newman and His Critics offers many insights into Newman as controversialist

August 3, 2025 Carl R. Trueman 8

Of all nineteenth-century Catholic thinkers, John Henry Newman is the one who continues both to shape intellectual currents in modern Catholicism and offer an interesting dialogue partner to Protestants such as myself. While his patristic […]

Books

Peter Kreeft’s spiritual autobiography is insightful and entertaining

May 28, 2025 Casey Chalk 12

Unless you pay much attention to the tiny subculture that is Catholic-Calvinist ecumenical debate and apologetics, you likely wouldn’t know that the discussions can get quite heated and personal. When one respected Presbyterian pastor and […]

The Dispatch

The conversion of Paul and the sins of act and omission

April 10, 2025 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 2

Our Lenten trek with the saints invoked in the old Confiteor includes “the holy Apostles, Peter and Paul.” Last week we considered Peter; this week, we look at Paul. Like Peter, Paul had a checkered […]

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‘Thanks be to God!’: Notre Dame student’s family converts on solemnity of the Assumption

August 28, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The Smith family at the motherhouse for the Nashville Dominican sisters on the solemnity of the Assumption, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Colin Smith

CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 13:20 pm (CNA).
A student at the University o… […]

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Weightlifting champion puts barbell to the side for a new journey — the priesthood 

August 4, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Will Heller is a 21-year-old weightlifting phenom from Toledo, Ohio who now has his sights on becoming a Catholic priest. / Credit: Will Heller/USA Weightlifting/The U.P. Catholic

CNA Staff, Aug 4, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Will Heller, a 21-year-… […]

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13 things to know about J.D. Vance’s Catholic journey

July 21, 2024 Catholic News Agency 13

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, arrives to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “God and Country Breakfast” at the Pfister Hotel on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee. / Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

National Catholi… […]

Essay

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha’s path to holiness

July 13, 2024 Dawn Beutner 1

Saint Camillus de Lellis founded a religious order that cares for the sick all over the world. But in the United States, his feast day is translated to another date so that Americans can honor […]

Features

Son of converts, baptized by Fulton Sheen: An interview with Bishop John Barres

June 26, 2024 Jim Graves 5

Bishop John Barres, 63, has served as Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York (Long Island) since January 2017. He was born in the New York City suburb of Larchmont in 1960; his parents were former […]

The Dispatch

No reason to be cynical about celebrity conversions, Bishop Barron and others say

May 27, 2024 Catholic News Agency 11

Russell Brand, Candace Owens, and Shia LeBeouf. / Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy; Jason Davis/Getty Images; and Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 27, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
The phenomenon of c… […]

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Redeemed from sexual libertinism, prostitution, and occult, Fran Orvich tells his story

April 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Orvich said he wanted to share his experience with same sex attraction “so that the Lord might touch hearts and that people repent and try returning to a chaste life." / Credit: Fran Orvich

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 23, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
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Pope Francis makes two American episcopal appointments

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Today the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has appointed two bishops to American episcopal seats. Interestingly, both were ordained priests of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska. Bishop Michael O. Jackels, currently bishop of Wichita, Kansas, […]

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