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Christ’s Sufferings and Ours: Good Friday reflections from Guardini’s “The Lord”

April 10, 2020 Fr. Charles Fox 4

Editor’s note: This essay was originally published by CWR on April 19, 2019. The problem of suffering is one that has plagued and haunted humanity since the Fall of our first parents. Suffering prompts in […]

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Rules for Christian Intellectuals, Part III

June 30, 2019 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 11

The world is falling apart. Gunmen kill civilians in office buildings and schools; babies die in wars and in abortion clinics. People suffer poverty, sexual violence, hunger. Our planet is rife with racism and tyranny […]

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Pain Is Not Metaphysically Basic

April 18, 2019 Bishop Robert Barron 14

I write these words on Holy Thursday, as the Christian world enters into the holiest and most spiritually intense time of the year. The long season of Lent has prepared us to delve once more […]

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Chesterton, St. Francis, and the bottomless pit of unfathomable thanks

March 8, 2018 Dale Ahlquist 3

How I learned that the best kind of prayer is thanksgiving, the best kind almsgiving is thanksgiving, and the best kind of abstinence is thanksgiving. […]

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Suffering, salvation, and the mystery of an imperfect world

February 27, 2018 James V. Schall, S.J. 4

God cannot make us free and then make it absolutely certain that we do not reject Him. The whole point of divine and human love […]

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Death comes like a thief in the night

March 24, 2017 Dorothy Cummings McLean 2

On March 7, at about 9 p.m., my husband was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The doctor didn’t know if it was malignant, but as it had caused a blockage of fluid, Mark would have […]

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