Where have all the new religions gone?

FOCUS consecrates missionary efforts to Our Lady of Guadalupe | Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ | FOCUS missionaries are sent to cultivate a field of rocky ground; with the assistance of the Virgin of Guadalupe they hope to bring their peers on college campuses to Christ.

Thoughts on the Ecclesial Vocation of Women | Dr. William Newton | What this world lacks, above all, are those who will waste themselves on the Lord.

The Four Cardinals and the Encyclical in the Room | Carl E. Olson | The essential questions remain what they have always been: "what is freedom and what is its relationship to the truth contained in God's law? what is the role of conscience in man's moral development?"

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on vocations, elections, apostolic exhortations | Jim Graves | If Amoris Laetitia "has elements that some serious Catholic scholars see as ambiguous," says the Archbishop of Philadelphia, "then the issues they raise need to be dealt with honestly and directly."

Women and the Protestant Reformation | Amy Welborn | Luther and the Reformers went to war against the evangelical counsels as ideals and as the core of a vowed, religious life. Every woman--it was assumed--was meant for marriage, children, and homemaking.

On Meeting Sally Read: Poet, Writer, Convert from Atheism | K. V. Turley | From a young age, Read felt her artistic calling, whether expressed through poetry, composing essays, a memoir, or, now, fiction—for her, all of this has a single purpose: the greater glory of God.

How many cheers for capitalism? | James Kalb | Increasingly, we live in a system that tends to merge public and private, absorb everything into economics and power, and promote a wholly this-worldly way of life.

Waiting for the War That Is Already Here | William Kilpatrick | The battle against cultural jihad will be fought—is now being fought—in workplaces, in school boards, in town councils, and, most of all, in courts.

Meet the Dominican Friars: Spending Christmas with Catholic family | Christopher S. Morrissey | The new album "Christ Was Born to Save" offers us an outstanding musical path for providing special support to the Friars of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

Why Christmas Should Bother Everybody | Bishop Robert Barron | The Biblical texts dealing with Christmas have precious little to do with sentimentality, or the embracing of a common morality, or the cultivation of a "let's all get along" attitude.

CRUX author: "Dissenters" from AL are predominantly wealthy lay people fixated on "reason" | Carl E. Olson | Austen Ivereigh insists that the "train has left the station, the Church is moving on." But his "arguments" are derailed by hubris, rhetorical excess, and lack of substance.

"It has never been easy to obey our Lord's commands." | Dale Ahlquist | The terrible thing about the modern world is that disobedience of God's commandments carries far more widespread consequences than it used to carry.

John the Baptist reveals the Reason for the Season | Dr Leroy Huizenga | Advent points to the reality that Catholicism is a faith not simply of martyrs but of martyrdom.

Providence College and Dr. Anthony Esolen: An Alumnus Speaks Out | Dr. Michael J. Rubin | Imagine going to Oxford in the ’30s, ’40s, or ’50s, and never hearing that C. S. Lewis taught there. That is what it is like for Dr. Esolen at Providence College.

Cardinals in the Church have rights too | Edward N. Peters | Bp. Frangiskos Papamanolis, President of the Bishops’ Conference of Greece, gives little indication that he even knows what is really meant by terms such as "apostasy", "sacrilege", "heresy", and "schism".

Bishop Peter J. Elliott on liturgy, "rigidity" and "reform of the reform" | CWR Staff | "Of course the Ordinary Form is here to stay," says the auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia, "but I am irritated when people refuse to provide for celebration of the Extraordinary Form or even make fun of it in ignorant ways."

Where have all the new religions gone? | Dale Ahlquist | The things that the new religions would not deal with are very things we cannot now talk about in regards to the moral responsibility in the major matters of our lives.

Cardinal Sarah’s pastoral call to “turn to the Lord” | Jeanette Flood | Some de-mythologizing needs to take place in order for many to accept Cardinal Sarah’s call to celebrate Mass “ad orientem.”

Death by Fidel | Dr. Paul Kengor | How many people were killed by Fidel Castro and his communist dystopia? Unfortunately, no one truly knows, akin to how no one knows how many poor souls he tossed into his jails, from political dissidents to priests to homosexuals.