Questioning the prospects of Catholic-Orthodox unity

Southern Africa hosts Mini World Youth Day

By Allen Ottaro on Dec 19, 2017 11:38 pm
Thousands of Catholic youth from all over Africa came together earlier this month to celebrate their faith and their passion for the Gospel. [...]
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Life in “Little Rome,” in the heart of Washington, D.C.

By Aurora C. Griffin on Dec 19, 2017 06:25 pm
Living in Brookland for the last year has been an incredible opportunity for me to grow in my faith because it is such a distinctly [...]
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Pope Francis’ “open and incomplete” leadership and the puzzling “reform” of the Curia

By Christopher R. Altieri on Dec 19, 2017 02:37 pm
Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, the Editor-in-Chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, says the Holy Father's leadership "is based on the success-error dynamic,” which inevitably “destabilizes whoever [...]
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Getting to know Adrienne von Speyr: Mystic, author, and inspiring female role model

By Carl E. Olson on Dec 18, 2017 08:45 pm
Von Speyr's "theological understanding," says Vivian Dudro of Ignatius Press, "did not come from formal theological studies, of which she had none, but from Scripture, [...]
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St. Joseph: A just man and a sure guide during Advent

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Dec 18, 2017 04:58 pm
There is never a big splash in Joseph’s life – no craving for headlines, no domination, no unreal demands or expectations, just simple and complete [...]
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Natural law outside Catholicism? Regime-agnosticism and agnostic regimes

By Timothy J. Gordon on Dec 17, 2017 11:09 pm
The question at hand is: what do we make of America’s schizophrenic natural law pedigree, rejecting but needing Catholic ideas? (And John Locke, history's most [...]
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Our ugly progressive culture’s desperate need for authentic love and the Faith

By Alan L. Anderson on Dec 16, 2017 02:53 pm
By divorcing human intimacy from the context for which it was created our secular progressives have reduced it to simply pleasure, or what use to [...]
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The joyful, particular scandal of Advent

By Carl E. Olson on Dec 16, 2017 09:27 am
On the Readings for Sunday, December 17, 2017, the Third Sunday of Advent [...]
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Questioning the prospects of Catholic-Orthodox unity

By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Dec 15, 2017 09:29 pm
The latest statement of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation (NAOCTC) begins and ends with questions, and these are both more valuable and certainly more interesting [...]
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It’s about the Art, for Art’s Sake

By Mark Brumley on Dec 15, 2017 01:42 pm
The Vatican’s 2017 Nativity Display is generating more than a little vitriol from some Catholics on social media. [...]
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