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Memo to Gen Z Catholics: Why Vatican II is still important

February 15, 2023 George Weigel 66

Mr. Adam Lucas, who is “newly married with a baby on the way” (mazel tov!) and “has a Master’s in Theology,” speaks for a depressing number of Gen Z Catholics when he writes on the […]

Analysis

The Good, the Bad, and Gaudium et Spes

October 12, 2022 Tracey Rowland 1

It is easy to be critical of Gaudium et Spes as a document pushed through at the end of the Second Vatican Council when the Holy Spirit was out to lunch or the Conciliar fathers […]

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You will be contradicted: The Christological challenge of Karol Wojtyla

August 26, 2021 Casey Chalk 7

One of the greatest threats to the Christian life is not necessarily the alluring temptations that entice us or the unexpected disasters that shake us, but the slow, almost imperceptible erosion of our appreciation for […]

Essay

The educational pilgrimage of St. John Paul II and its impact on the world

February 22, 2021 George Weigel 5

Editor’s note: The Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based public policy research center, has just published a groundbreaking study, A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts. The book explores the history and achievements of Catholic education […]

Features

New Life in Catholic Theater: Catholic Young Adult and Lolek

November 16, 2020 David Paul Deavel 4

If it is true, as writer Ross Douthat would have it, that we live in an age of decadence characterized by sterile remakes, reboots, and revivals of earlier artistic works, it is also true that […]

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A Saintly View of Vatican II: On St. John Paul II and the Council

October 22, 2020 Douglas Bushman 44

Editor’s note: This essay, which originally appeared at CWR on May 31, 2020, is reposted in honor of St. John Paul II’s feast day. “By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that […]

Books

Wojtyla’s Athenian catechesis: An antidote to the culture of veriphobia

May 17, 2020 Eduardo Echeverria 4

Archbishop Karol Wojtyla’s newly discovered 1965 reflections on St. Paul’s discourse at the Areopagus (Acts 17: 16-32), Mars Hill, is the starting point for Wojtyla’s cycle of catecheses in this book, Teachings for an Unbelieving […]

Analysis

Provisional agreement between China and Holy See raises many questions, highlights tensions

September 22, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 18

The Holy See and the People’s Republic of China announced a provisional agreement on questions of common interest on Saturday. Under the terms of the deal, Pope Francis “readmit[s] to full ecclesial communion the remaining […]

Books

Marengo’s Lament: ‘The Birth of an Encyclical’ unwittingly confirms old truths

July 24, 2018 E. Christian Brugger 12

Pope Paul VI had no doubts about the truth of the doctrinal teaching he set forth in Humanae Vitae, but that he knew given the […]

Books

Two new books explore Pope St. John Paul II’s moral convictions, intellectual legacy

June 18, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 2

A Pope and a President by Paul Kengor and Wind From Heaven by Monika Jablonska delve into many unknown or overlooked aspects of John Paul’s […]

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