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Paul Winkler
Apr 19, 20243 min read
Making God a Partner in Your Business
(Photo: Adobe Stock) As a Catholic business leader, you have likely heard in every homily at every Mass you have attended that you should...
Mary Beth Bonacci
Apr 18, 20245 min read
Heaven Opened: The Holy Mass as a Gift of Grace
A few years ago, I brought a friend to Mass with me. She grew up with no religious faith, but had fond childhood memories of attending...
George Weigel
Apr 17, 20243 min read
Radiant in the GULAG and elsewhere
In Jesus of Nazareth – Holy Week , Pope Benedict XVI remarked on the striking parallel between the presence of the holy women at the...
Jared Staudt
Apr 11, 20244 min read
The New Temple: How Easter Changes Religion
“Destroy this temple, and I will rebuild it in three days.” This mysterious statement led, in part at least, to Christ’s death, brought...
George Weigel
Apr 9, 20243 min read
When ideology and blasphemy meet
In May 1993, the “World Russian People’s Council,” a “meeting place” for those “concerned about the present and future of Russia,” was...
George Weigel
Apr 2, 20243 min read
Baseball and rumors of angels
One of my life’s great blessings has been to have known and worked with men and women whose books I first studied in college and graduate...
Aaron Lambert
Apr 1, 20242 min read
Be an (April) fool for Christ
The Denver Catholic would like to announce it will not be partaking in April Fool’s Day. In other news, the Pope has decreed Denver...
Jared Staudt
Mar 28, 20244 min read
See and Believe: The Shroud Bears Witness to the Lifting Up of Jesus
Jesus has been raised up, lifted up for all to see, so that in seeing, we may believe. John puts these images at the center of his...
George Weigel
Mar 26, 20243 min read
Easter, Creation, and holiness
What came first: Creation, or God’s covenants with the People of Israel and the New Israel, the Church? The question may seem odd, even...
Guest Contributor
Mar 26, 20243 min read
Finding Peace in Surrender: Perspectives on Anxiety and Control
(Photo: Aleksandr Ledogorov / Unsplash) By Lisa Smith St. Raphael Counseling In today’s fast-paced world, anxiety has become a prevalent...
Paul Winkler
Mar 22, 20244 min read
Why company culture eats strategic plans for breakfast
(Photo: Adobe Stock) Many a strategic plan ends up gathering dust on shelves or on the corner of a desk rather than being effectively...
George Weigel
Mar 20, 20243 min read
Following the Jewish Jesus
Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After going to...
Jared Staudt
Mar 14, 20243 min read
A Biblical Path for Lent: Brant Pitre’s Introduction to the Spiritual Life
During Lent, we focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving in order to repent and turn our lives back to God. The 40 days of this holy...
George Weigel
Mar 13, 20243 min read
The good news is that the bad news isn’t all the news there is
In the course of an insightful essay on Vladimir Putin’s challenge to civilization, Italian historian Roberto de Mattei, observed that,...
Mary Beth Bonacci
Mar 11, 20245 min read
Lent: A time of weeding, a time for love
I’m seeing a meme on social media which quotes Pope Francis as discouraging fasting, recommending people to “eat whatever you want” and...
George Weigel
Mar 5, 20243 min read
Two who didn’t run
His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as Stanley Francis Rother as a future martyr, and...
George Weigel
Feb 28, 20243 min read
‘Gendered’ nonsense is dangerous nonsense
Dean Acheson, U.S. secretary of state from 1949 until 1953, is buried in Washington’s Oak Hill Cemetery. When I read recently that...
Paul Winkler
Feb 23, 20244 min read
A Daily Examen for Catholic Business Leaders
(Photo: Adobe Stock) In Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises , there’s a dialog between two characters which goes like this: “’How did...
Jared Staudt
Feb 22, 20243 min read
Sustaining the Fast: Simple meals for the Lenten desert
Lent calls us into a season of 40 days of fasting. It’s common for us to focus particularly on one edible attachment: chocolate, alcohol,...
George Weigel
Feb 21, 20243 min read
Two years on, still unbroken
Two years ago, Russian forces attempted a Hitlerian blitzkrieg in Ukraine. According to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, its goal was to...
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