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Lent: a journey, an encounter, a time of purification

March 7, 2026 Carl E. Olson 9

Readings: • Ex 17:3-7 • Psa 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 5:1-2, 5-8 • Jn 4:5-42 Lent is not merely a season, but a journey, an encounter, and a time of purification. Pope Benedict XVI, […]

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Jesus: Liberal rabbi or incarnate Messiah?

February 14, 2026 Carl E. Olson 10

Readings: • Sir 15:15-20 • Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34 • 1 Cor 2:6-10 • Mt 5:17-37 “Was Jesus in reality a liberal rabbi—a forerunner of Christian liberalism? Is the Christ of faith, and therefore […]

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The Beatitudes: The new Law given by the new Moses

January 31, 2026 Carl E. Olson 8

Readings: • Zeph. 2:3; 3:12-13 • Psa. 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10 • 1 Cor. 1:26-31 • Matt. 5:1-12a During this Sunday’s Gospel Reading, we hear the Beatitudes, among the most well-known and oft-quoted sayings of Jesus. […]

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On the surprising sanity of Bill Gates on climate change…

November 16, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 75

I didn’t see this coming. I could hardly believe the news article that came across my desk the other day: none other than Bill Gates was urging climate advocates to rethink their priorities and rhetoric […]

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Reflections on Dilexi Te, the first magisterial document of Leo XIV’s papacy

October 10, 2025 Larry Chapp 97

Pope Leo XIV’s first magisterial document of his papacy, Dilexi Te (“I have loved you”), has understandably generated a lot of interest. An apostolic exhortation is a fairly low-level document in terms of the classical criteria for […]

Analysis

The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality

September 29, 2024 Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. 80

St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things, the […]

Books

The theology of Vatican II, renewal, and the universal call to holiness

July 26, 2024 Carl E. Olson 7

Douglas G. Bushman is well-known as past director of the Institute for Pastoral Theology at Ave Maria University and the University of Dallas, and for his courses on Ecclesiology, Catholic Spirituality, John Paul II, Vatican […]

Columns

Benedict XVI’s covenantal theology and what it means for ecology

May 24, 2024 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 16

“Those who can recognize in the cosmos the reflections of the Creator’s invisible face tend to have a greater love for creatures and greater sensitivity to their symbolic value.” This was central lessons imparted by […]

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Pope Benedict’s pectoral cross still missing as thief faces prison sentence

May 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Benedict XVI on April 21, 2007, in Vigevano, Italy. / Credit: miqu77/Shutterstock

CNA Newsroom, May 8, 2024 / 11:07 am (CNA).
The man arrested for the theft of a pectoral cross bequeathed by the late Pope Benedict XVI to a parish in his na… […]

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Creation’s Rebellion: What changed after the Fall?

April 1, 2024 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 18

When faced with the question of why there is so much suffering in the world, the default Christian answer is because of Adam’s sin. This belief is certainly not without warrant. Indeed, a number of […]

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1. Dear brothers and sisters of the Church in Ireland, it is with great concern that I write to you as Pastor of the universal Church. Like yourselves, I have been deeply disturbed by the […]

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