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The Christmas Truce of 1914: Here’s what really happened

December 25, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

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St. Louis, Mo., Dec 25, 2022 / 10:00 am (CNA).
The experience of fighting in “The Great War,” World War I, was marked by brutality and misery on a scale never before seen. The grisly realities of trench warfa… […]

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Father Willie Doyle’s cause: fearless in his faith on Flanders Fields

November 22, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

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Last weekend, the cause for the canonization of Jesuit Father Willie Doyle was opened. An inspiring — yet unassuming — Irish World War I chaplain, he was killed … […]

The Dispatch

Unconditional surrender and the totalitarian temptation

August 2, 2022 Jerry Salyer 13

As the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan approaches, it is worth pondering the concept of unconditional surrender – a policy often regarded by Catholic critics of the bombing as the real reason the […]

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J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: Inevitable greatness?

July 5, 2022 Thomas M. Doran 7

Today, when we think of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, we are likely to imagine inspired storytellers, talented scholars, committed Christians—iconic men remote from the rest of us. With such gifts, many […]

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“1917” and Remembering Who We Are

January 14, 2020 Bishop Robert Barron 25

I saw the film 1917 on the vigil of the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, and I think there’s a connection between the movie and the liturgical celebration. Bear with me.First, as everyone […]

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Homily at the Requiem Mass commemorating the centennial of the death of Joyce Kilmer

June 15, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 0

Due to some very shallow and presumptuous notions of divine mercy and eternal life, not a few priests fail to encourage the faithful to offer […]

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Moral order, the current mess, and a theological reading of history

May 22, 2018 Carl E. Olson 5

“As I explain in several essays in the book,” says George Weigel about The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times, “our politics are […]

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