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George Weigel
Aug 30, 20173 min read
Domesticating the divinity
Some biblical scholars consider the Book of Deuteronomy to be a collection of sermons: catechetical homilies on the great theme of the...
Jared Staudt
Aug 30, 20173 min read
Bearing fruit by living Your charism
In 2015, Sherry Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples became the Catholic book to read. Its simple but powerful message focused...
George Weigel
Aug 23, 20173 min read
It’s a culture war, stupid
Those who persist in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly called the “culture of life”...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Aug 17, 20173 min read
Healing hatred and anger after Charlottesville
The confrontation in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the nationwide reaction to it are clear signs of the tensions simmering just below...
George Weigel
Aug 15, 20173 min read
Motown and the turbocharged Church
Detroit hasn’t gotten a lot of good press in recent decades as it’s struggled to cope with the myriad problems of rustbelt American...
Larry Smith
Aug 11, 20172 min read
Living out the Cabrini Option
There’s much current debate about “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in Post-Christian Nation,” the recent book by Rod...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Aug 10, 20173 min read
Lessons from Charlie Gard
After living one week short of a year, Baby Charlie Gard passed on to eternal life on July 28th. His brief life and the court battle over...
Brianna Heldt
Aug 9, 20174 min read
Genetic editing: Stranger than fiction
We’ve all heard the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction, right? Well, the truth is also apparently becoming even stranger–as...
Jared Staudt
Aug 9, 20174 min read
What’s with the buzz about <em>The Benedict Option</em>?
It’s hard to recall another Christian book that has garnered so much attention in the media and has generated such vigorous discussion...
George Weigel
Aug 8, 20173 min read
Ecumenism, influence-envy, etc.
Defending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of the Catholic commentariat to...
George Weigel
Aug 4, 20173 min read
Questions of competence
It’s a safe bet that 99.95% of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization], a...
George Weigel
Jul 26, 20173 min read
Are jihadis “losers”?
When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew University who was Egyptian...
Jared Staudt
Jul 21, 20173 min read
Pilgrimage: A journey through Church history
“Let it be known to you then that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.” Paul proclaims these words the...
Mary Beth Bonacci
Jul 20, 20173 min read
"Teen Vogue’s" anti-theology of the body
If your daughter has a subscription to Teen Vogue , I would strongly urge you to cancel it. Immediately. The magazine recently featured a...
George Weigel
Jul 18, 20173 min read
The cooler Cold War
The claim that “the Cold War is over” and that the West needs a “new paradigm” for relations with Russia has become an antiphon in some...
Catholic News Agency
Jul 14, 20176 min read
Fear not, Celiacs: The Eucharist is still for you, too
Vatican City, Jul 11, 2017 / 03:01 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- The norms regarding gluten and Communion hosts that went viral this weekend are...
George Weigel
Jul 12, 20173 min read
Awkward? Or wise?
Asked to name books that gave me the greatest intellectual jolt in recent decades, I’d quickly cite two. N.T Wright’s The Resurrection of...
Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk
Jul 11, 20173 min read
How does the Catholic Church resolve new bioethical questions?
Image by Erick rumualdo bustos ortega – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28900742 A number of...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Jul 6, 20173 min read
The Supreme Court’s welcome surprise
Right in the middle of the Church’s celebration of the annual Fortnight for Freedom, good news came down from the U.S. Supreme Court in a...
George Weigel
Jul 5, 20173 min read
Fifty years of friendship with Cardinal Pell
Msgr. Thomas A. Whelan, my pastor when I was growing up in Baltimore, was a striking character: Princeton friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald;...
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