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“What is effective are stories about real people’s lives.”

July 8, 2021 Jim Graves 0

Claretian Father Darrin Merlino has launched Catholic Media Missionaries (CMM), an apostolate to evangelize the culture through media, utilizing the creation of faith-friendly movies, television programs, videos, books and more.  Its initial offerings include Hound […]

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How a successful district attorney became a priest and promoter of Marian devotion

April 9, 2021 Jim Graves 2

Fr. Quan Tran is a parochial vicar at St. Bonaventure Parish in Huntington Beach, California, in the Diocese of Orange. He was born in Vietnam, but fled the country at age six with his family […]

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New book explores the surprising—and often ecumenical—reality of deification

March 25, 2021 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 8

Jared Ortiz is Associate Professor of Religion at Hope College and founder and executive director of the Saint Benedict Institute. He is the author of You Made Us for Yourself: Creation in St Augustine’s Confessions (Fortress Press, […]

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Kataklusmós, “challenges the estrangement of science, philosophy, and faith”

March 21, 2021 CWR Staff 1

T. M. Doran is an environmental engineer and an adjunct professor at Lawrence Technological University in Michigan. He is the author of Terrapin (Ignatius Press, 2012), Toward the Gleam (Ignatius Press, 2011), Iota (Ignatius Press, 2014), and The […]

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‘A simple priest of the Church’: Papal preacher prepares to be made a cardinal

November 19, 2020 CNA Daily News 4

Vatican City, Nov 19, 2020 / 11:00 am (CNA).- For more than 60 years, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa has preached the Word of God as a priest — and he plans to continue doing so, even as he prepares to receive the cardinal’s red hat next week.

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Robert Hugh Benson, literary converts, and the Church in a dystopian age

November 13, 2020 Joseph Pearce 4

In this interview with Jan Franczak for the Polish Journal, PCh24, biographer and literary critic Joseph Pearce discusses the importance of the convert writer, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), as well as other great literary converts. […]

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Full text: Pope Francis’ Wednesday General Audience address

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Below is the address delivered by Pope Francis at his Wednesday General Audience in St. Peter’s Square June 12, as translated by Vatican Radio. *** Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! Today I would like […]

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