Making Christianity Weird Again
By Tracey Rowland on Feb 06, 2025 10:49 pmIt’s rare for me to hold a fashionable position but I am delighted to be in the company of high-profile people, from the historian Tom Holland to Bishop Robert Barron and the authors Michael Frost [...]
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Safe spaces and empty offices
By Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. on Feb 06, 2025 08:25 pmGiven our more recent trips around the sun, social justice warriors patrolling professional workplaces may want to spend some time mulling over what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say about justice. Authentic [...]
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Whither Catholic theology now? An evening with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
By Matthew Becklo on Feb 06, 2025 07:15 pmThis past Tuesday evening, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP—Dominican priest, cofounder of the bluegrass band the Hillbilly Thomists, and the first American rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome (colloquially the [...]
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Survey finds the economy worries Americans more than cultural issues
By Sean Salai on Feb 06, 2025 07:00 amAmericans have grown more worried about their pocketbooks and less concerned about the culture wars over the past decade, an annual family values survey has found. Deseret News reported Thursday that 71% of adults responding to a [...]
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Desiring the salvation of everyone—including my son’s murderer
By John Echaniz on Feb 05, 2025 10:06 pmWhat is it about the comment sections of websites that attract the outrageous? I suppose that there’s something intoxicating about sharing one’s thoughts in print, utterly democratized by the internet, unfiltered and raw. Add anonymity [...]
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Bishops increasingly worried as Cameroon’s separatist conflict intensifies
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Feb 05, 2025 12:49 pmCatholic bishops in Cameroon have raised alarm over the ongoing suffering of Cameroonians in the conflict-ridden Northwest and Southwest regions. For eight years, separatists have been fighting to form a breakaway state named Ambazonia. It [...]
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Manners, methods, and greatness
By George Weigel on Feb 05, 2025 04:00 amBrowsing Footprints in Time, the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime private secretary, John Colville, I found a tale from eighty years ago with a lesson for American public life today. The idiosyncrasies of the British government being [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, February 5, 2025
By CWR Staff on Feb 05, 2025 03:00 amThe Greatness of Henri de Lubac – “Through my years of theological study in Rome and long years of teaching, Henri de Lubac has been a cherished theological mentor and companion.” Henri de Lubac: Pilgrim [...]
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“Beauty from ashes”: A conversation with Kendra Tierney Norton of ‘Catholic All Year’
By Jim Graves on Feb 04, 2025 03:50 pmOn January 7, the Eaton fire broke out in the Angeles National Forest, which borders the Los Angeles County community of Altadena, just north of Pasadena. The massive fire eventually claimed 17 lives and destroyed [...]
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‘Jesus was not a yogi’: Bishop refutes theories spread by priest
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 04, 2025 11:00 am“To affirm that Jesus’ wisdom comes from his stay in India or Tibet before beginning his public life at 30 years of age is a lack of respect for the Gospels and also hides other errors, for example an erroneous conception of Christology,” Spanis... [...]
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The Catholic or the Davos Man?
By Anna Farrow on Feb 04, 2025 12:02 amPolitical change is afoot in Canada. Well, maybe not political change, but change of personnel. On January 6, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, leader of the federal Liberal Party for 12 years and Prime Minister for [...]
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Do we need a “rapid theology?”
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Feb 03, 2025 12:06 pmThere’s a new slogan percolating in the Vatican: “teologia rapida.” Jesuit priest and author Antonio Spadaro, who is undersecretary for the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education and the former editor-in-chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, [...]
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On the strange and politicized Jubilee for the World of Communications
By MIchael R. Heinlein on Feb 03, 2025 11:30 amThe Jubilee for the World of Communications took place Jan. 24-26 at the Vatican. It was the first such global gathering planned for the 2025 Jubilee Year, and parts of it were quite lovely. A [...]
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New book provides encyclopedic and ecumenical treatment of deification
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 02, 2025 07:29 pmThe Oxford Handbook of Deification, states the publisher, “provides the first treatment of deification that is truly encyclopedic in scope.” With three co-editors, forty-six contributors, and forty-four chapters, the 738-page-long volume is an impressive and thorough [...]
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Blue Bloods, RIP
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 01, 2025 03:00 pmBeing a multi-tasker by nature (and habit), I often turn on the telly for some mindless entertainment while I do some writing or editing. For fourteen years, however, on Friday nights at ten, I have [...]
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Our eyes have seen your salvation: On the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 01, 2025 11:00 amReadings: Mal 3:1-4 Psa 24:7, 8, 9, 10 Heb 2:14-18 Lk 2:22-40 The Gospel of Luke contains many details and stories about the infancy of Jesus not found elsewhere. Today’s Gospel reading is one such [...]
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Political Dimensions of Moral Deliberation: The Immigration Case
By Paul Seaton on Jan 31, 2025 09:54 pm“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Wise cautionary words for those entering today’s contested political and commentarial scene from a Catholic point of view. However, I find that contemporary Catholic Social Thought in [...]
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Building a culture of life by caring for the sick
By Susan Ciancio on Jan 31, 2025 05:32 pmThe Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: “‘Heal the sick!’ The Church has received this charge from the Lord and strives to carry it out by taking care of the sick as well as by accompanying them [...]
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Why should Catholics bother to read novels?
By David Pinault on Jan 31, 2025 11:00 amGetting people to read these days is tough. Blame it on our age of social media, electronic games, infinite distractibility: if a text is more than a hundred words in length—beyond say what fills a [...]
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