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Losing (and regaining) our sense of the sacred in a “bourgeois” society

January 15, 2022 Jonathan Culbreath 11

In 2016, Pope Francis gave an interview to Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor-in-chief of Civiltà Cattolica, in which he wondered why it is that so many young people are interested in the traditional Roman liturgical rites, […]

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“Strange Rites” and the promise of natural religion

January 11, 2022 Bishop Robert Barron 24

Along with many other cultural commentators, I have been tracing for the past many years the phenomenon of religious disaffiliation, the sobering fact that armies of people, especially the young, are leaving institutional religion behind. […]

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What is behind the increase in “witches” in the US?

October 31, 2018 Anne Hendershott 39

As the number of self-identified witches in the United States has surpassed the number of Presbyterians, it is helpful to recall G.K. Chesterton’s adage that when we stop believing in God, we begin to believe […]

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A new Pew Research Center survey suggests that those who identify as Christian have dramatically declined in the past decade, while those with no religious affiliation have dramatically increased. Is this a harbinger of the […]

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