Mary’s Immaculate Conception, explained by the Saints
By Dawn Beutner on Dec 08, 2023 03:00 amThe world was shocked when Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854. While Protestants rejected the teaching outright, even many Catholics objected to the pope’s decision. Exalting the role of [...]
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The Mass of Vatican II
By Father Joseph Fessio, S.J. on Dec 07, 2023 06:45 pmEditor’s note: This essay appeared originally in the September/October 2000 issue of Catholic Dossier and is based on a lecture given by Father Fessio in May, 1999. It is reposted to mark the sixtieth anniversary [...]
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Is Elon Musk’s “philosophy of curiosity” enough?
By Matthew Becklo on Dec 07, 2023 06:20 pmEverywhere one looks these days, one sees Elon Musk blazing a trail—an audacity not without its sparks and, yes, the occasional firestorm. Most recently, Musk had some choice words for advertisers leaving X in protest [...]
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Advent is a call to holiness and transformation in Christ
By Fr. Charles Fox on Dec 07, 2023 03:22 pm“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.” The French Catholic author Léon Bloy wrote these words in his 1897 novel La Femme [...]
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St. Ambrose: Father, Doctor, bishop, theologian, apologist, and liturgist
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Dec 07, 2023 12:00 pmToday the Church honors the memory of St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, born in Trier in 340 A.D. He was yet a catechumen, in 374, when he was nominated Bishop by popular acclamation, and so [...]
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Deus ex Machina, Part 2
By Ian Huyett on Dec 06, 2023 05:57 pmEditor’s note:Part 1 of this essay was published on November 29, 2023. V. The Omega point has given rise to two other cosmic theogonies that are worth reviewing here: first, a loose family of ideas [...]
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FBI director grilled after release of new report on targeting of Catholics
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 06, 2023 04:35 pmChristopher Wray at his confirmation hearing on July 12, 2017. / Credit: Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Image Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 6, 2023 / 17:35 pm (CNA). Sen. Josh Hawley engaged in a tense exchange with FBI Director Christopher Wray on ... [...]
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You better watch out—St. Nicholas is coming to town
By Christopher B. Warner on Dec 06, 2023 08:00 amEveryone loves jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas. There is something romantic and cozy about telling Santa stories around the crackling fire. He is an icon of the Christmas season. But not everyone agrees about the real [...]
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Books for Christmas 2023
By George Weigel on Dec 06, 2023 04:00 amAdvent-2023 is as short as Advent can be, so this annual column on Christmas gift books that will inspire, entertain, inform, or all of the above comes a bit earlier than usual; it also includes [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023
By CWR Staff on Dec 06, 2023 03:00 amSynodal Report Card – “Lumen gentium (37–38) envisions a mature laity who are confident in living their faith in the world, whereas this current synodality is often obsessed with everyone’s struggles and difficulties, to a [...]
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“I personally share Pope Francis’ concern”: Interview with Sr. Anna Mirijam Kaschner
By CWR Contributors on Dec 05, 2023 01:46 pmVatican-Copenhagen (kath.net/pl) In an interview with KATH.NET, Sr. Anna Mirijam Kaschner, CPS, the General Secretary of the Nordic Bishops’ Conference, declared, “Yes, I share this concern in a very personal way—and of course I can [...]
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Canonization cause advances for ‘God’s architect,’ Antoni Gaudí
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 05, 2023 10:21 amThe Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí, whose cause for beatification is being considered by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. / Credit: Public domain; r.nagy/Shutterstock Washington... [...]
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Memoir by fellow priest and close friend tells the remarkable story of Fr. Stu
By Paul Senz on Dec 05, 2023 10:00 amIt is not every day that a major studio film features a Catholic priest in a sympathetic role and portrayed in a positive light. And it is even less often that he is the main [...]
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The farcical Napoleon and the failures of today’s leadership class
By Andrew Petiprin on Dec 04, 2023 01:31 pmNapoleon Bonaparte is one of a handful of historical figures identifiable by his Christian name alone; and in his case, it is the Frenchified version of the Corsican-Italian Napoleone, the Lion of Naples. Napoleon’s native [...]
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This December, let’s join with Pope Francis in praying for those with disabilities
By Susan Ciancio on Dec 04, 2023 12:04 pmAt the beginning of each month, Pope Francis asks the faithful to pray for a special intention. In December, that prayer intention is for people with disabilities. This couldn’t have come at a better time, [...]
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Thoughts on listening, accompaniment, and synodality
By James Kalb on Dec 03, 2023 09:43 pmIn a 2017 interview, Vatican official Rodrigo Guerra López summarized the evangelical ideal behind Francis’s call for openness, dialog, listening, and accompaniment: Francis … lives under the premise of having an elementary sympathy with all people, [...]
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At least three killed in explosion during Mass on Philippine campus
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 02, 2023 11:03 pmMilitary personnel stand guard at the entrance of a gymnasium while police investigators look for evidence after a bomb attack at a Catholic Mass at Mindanao State University in Marawi, Lanao del sur province in the southern Philippines on Dec. ... [...]
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Is paid surrogacy coming to Michigan?
By CWR Staff on Dec 02, 2023 09:57 pmIn November 2022, Michigan voters adopted a state constitutional amendment enshrining a fundamental right to “reproductive freedom,” which includes abortion up to birth, sterilization, contraception, prenatal care, and infertility care. That December, pro-abortion Governor Gretchen [...]
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An exemplary study of Tolkien’s spiritual life and Catholic faith
By Joseph Tuttle on Dec 02, 2023 02:50 pmDr. Holly Ordway has graced us with another wonderful addition to Tolkien scholarship. Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography is unique among biographies of Tolkien in that it does not focus so much on the man’s [...]
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Science, microphysics, and the everyday world
By Dr. Edward Feser on Dec 01, 2023 09:43 pmScience, we’re often told, gives us a description of the world radically at odds with common sense. Physicist Arthur Eddington’s famous “two tables” example illustrates the theme. There is, on the one hand, the table [...]
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First Sunday of Advent: Expectation, Exhortation, Eucharist, Eternal Life
By Carl E. Olson on Dec 01, 2023 07:00 pmOn the Readings for Sunday, December 3, 2017, the First Sunday of Advent [...]
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