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Catholic institutions vulnerable to sexual “identity” discrimination lawsuits

April 24, 2017 Anne Hendershott 0

In an attempt to continue her desired “transition” from female to male, Evan Michael Minton was scheduled by her surgeon to undergo a hysterectomy at Dignity Health chain’s Catholic Mercy San Juan Medical Center in […]

The Dispatch

Squawk! Duquesne University’s LGBT group offended by Chick-fil-A

April 20, 2017 Anne Hendershott 0

Emboldened by their recent high-profile protest of plans to bring Chick-fil-A to campus,  Duquesne University’s gay-straight alliance announced that after several years of inactivity, their LGBT organization, Lambda, is “functional again” and committed to creating an […]

Books

Patriotism, piety, and Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes

April 2, 2017 Jerry Salyer 0

In the ninth circle of his Inferno Dante envisioned sinners guilty of treachery against those to whom they were bound by special ties. One round of the circle is named Caina, after Cain, and is […]

Interview

“The Devil wins if we don’t show up for the debate”: Fr. Spitzer on reclaiming the transcendentals

March 22, 2017 Connor Malloy 1

Father Robert Spitzer, SJ was still celebrating Mass, as he does daily, when I arrived for our interview. It had been a year since our last meeting, which resulted in one of CWR’s most-read articles […]

The Dispatch

An incisive critique of the “tyrannous logic” of liberal democracy

March 17, 2017 Russell Shaw 0

It’s a commonplace to say that America, along with other Western countries, is currently experiencing a cultural—which is to say: moral—crisis. And, in some quarters at least, it’s hardly less common to say this presents […]

Analysis

The state of the Catholic Church in contemporary Ireland

March 16, 2017 John P. McCarthy 4

The Ireland celebrated by G.K. Chesterton in his Christendom in Dublin is no more. He discussed that city during the 1932 Eucharistic Congress, when ceremonies were attended by hundreds of thousands and the Irish military […]

Ecclesia et Civitas

Without law and freedom united, truth and dignity are destroyed

March 9, 2017 James Kalb 0

A couple of months ago I commented on how modern ways of thinking make it hard to understand human life. I didn’t say so specifically, but a big part of the problem has to do […]

Special Report

Is the “Benedict Option” the only option left?

February 27, 2017 Catholic News Agency 2

When Josh and Laura Martin, both converts to the faith, moved their growing family of six from the city of Dallas, Texas to the hills of Oklahoma, they didn’t necessarily know that they were participating […]

Special Report

Theological orthodoxy, Church growth, and Church decline: Observations from Canada

February 23, 2017 Kevin N. Flatt 4

Catholics are used to seeing the 1960s as a turning point for the faith, not least because of the impact of Vatican II and the divergent interpretations of it in different circles. Upheaval in the […]

Interview

“This is our time of witness”: Abp Chaput on how American Catholics remain “strangers in a strange land”

February 21, 2017 Carl E. Olson 2

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput’s latest book, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World, is available now from Henry Holt & Co. In anticipation of the release of the book, […]

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