“Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” is stylish and slippery
By Sean Fitzpatrick on Dec 10, 2024 10:20 amMartin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, a new docudrama streaming on FOX Nation produced by the celebrated director, features the lives of eight saints in dramatic enactments with documentary supplements. The series certainly has a fresh [...]
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Evangelization and the Eucharist: An interview with Curtis Martin
By Jayd Henricks on Dec 09, 2024 08:52 pmCurtis Martin is the founder of FOCUS, one of the leading global Catholic outreach organizations, which exists to spread the good news of Christ. The success of FOCUS is well-documented but, in light of the current [...]
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The Immaculate Conception Revisited
By Dr. Leroy Huizenga on Dec 09, 2024 04:00 amIn December 2018, I wrote an article for Catholic World Report on the Immaculate Conception: “Why I came to believe that Mary was conceived without sin.” I argued that it was (1) a matter of [...]
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Paradise Cancelled explores divide between Christianity and postmodernism
By Richard Bastien on Dec 08, 2024 01:43 amWe live in a world gone mad. This madness was foreseen a century ago by the Irish poet William Yeats in The Second Coming: “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold / Mere anarchy is loosed upon [...]
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Most of the Prodigies . . .
By James Matthew Wilson on Dec 08, 2024 12:27 amNote: The following remarks were delivered at the 2024 Napa Institute. In late March of 2018, early one morning, my wife told me that she was pregnant with our fifth child. He would be our [...]
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Notre Dame Cathedral ‘back in the light’ after glorious reopening
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 07, 2024 07:15 pmArchbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, knocks on the door of Notre-Dame Cathedral during a ceremony to mark the re-opening of the landmark Cathedral, in central Paris, on Dec. 7, 2024. / Credit: Christophe Petit Tesson/POOL/AFP via Getty Images.) ... [...]
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Living between the first and final comings of Christ
By Carl E. Olson on Dec 07, 2024 11:00 amReadings: • Bar 5:1-9 • Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 • Phil 1:4-6, 8-11 • Lk 3:1-6 “There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know,” wrote St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the [...]
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“The Best Books I Read in 2024”
By CWR Staff on Dec 13, 2024 02:03 amDear Readers, It seems fitting to introduce this 20th edition—yes, this has been a tradition for two decades now—of the “Best Books I Read…” with a quote from a book about books and reading: Our [...]
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Finding myself in the manger: How Christmas turns the world right side up
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Dec 12, 2024 02:00 pmWhere would we be now without the first Christmas? 2025 years ago, God became man, and it changed everything. We take the beloved manger scene for granted, but what if there was no creche with [...]
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Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Eucharist
By Dawn Beutner on Dec 12, 2024 02:30 amDo just one-third of American Catholics believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, as was reported in this 2019 study? Or do two-thirds believe Church teaching on the Eucharist, if you question them [...]
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Contemporary Christian radio and Catholic prayer
By Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. on Dec 12, 2024 12:29 amI’m going to out myself. I’m a convert. Well, not exactly. I’ve been a Catholic all my life. But I recently completed a conversion of a different sort, to contemporary Christian music and radio. And, [...]
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Organizers and supporters reluctant to discuss planned LGBT jubilee day in Rome
By Edward Pentin on Dec 11, 2024 04:35 pmThe Church of the Gesù, where a Mass and prayer vigil for LGBT Christians are scheduled in September 2025 in Rome during the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. / Credit: essevu/Shutterstock National Catholic Register, Dec 11, 2024 / 17:35 pm (CNA). An ... [...]
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Books for Christmas – 2024
By George Weigel on Dec 11, 2024 04:00 amA friend told me recently that bookstores were making something of a comeback. I hope that’s true, because browsing bookstores is one of life’s great pleasures. (For the ultimate such experience, visit Hatchards at 187 [...]
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Extra, extra! news and views for Wednesday, December 11, 2024
By CWR Staff on Dec 11, 2024 03:00 amHow to Read Scripture – “The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible—a Bible decades in the making, under the editorship of Steubenville scholars Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch—recently arrived in our bookstore.” Can the Ignatius Study Bible [...]
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“Thy will be done on earth”? On the anniversary of Quas Primas
By Matthew Balan on Dec 10, 2024 11:30 pm“Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endures throughout all generations.” — Psalm 145 (144): 13 St. Benedict directed his monks to pray the Psalm above during Vespers on Saturdays. While the Book [...]
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