Entering Heaven on Earth is a beautiful education in both art and the Faith
By Matthew Balan on Mar 28, 2025 03:46 amThe famed St. John Cantius parish in Chicago is the founding site of the Catholic Art Institute—a non-profit that aims to promote “the essential need for beauty to elevate our senses and illuminate our souls.” [...]
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Facts about the danger of Abortion Pill regimen: Planned Parenthood “agrees”
By Susan Ciancio on Mar 27, 2025 07:00 pmAs its use to kill preborn babies has skyrocketed, the dispensing of the abortion pill has become a hot-button topic over the last few years. Recent statistics state that it accounted for “63% of all abortions in [...]
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Protests over kidnapping and killing of priests, farmers, and others in Nigeria
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Mar 27, 2025 05:08 pmChristians in Nigeria’s Auchi diocese have engaged in mass protests against the kidnapping and killing of priests, farmers, and market women in Edo state. The protests started on March 25 with an online protest. On [...]
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Can JD Vance deliver a commencement address at a Catholic university?
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Mar 27, 2025 01:55 pmVice President JD Vance is currently the rock star of the conservative Catholic world. His youth, style, upbringing, conversion, young family, and proximity to President Donald Trump have collided to make him the runaway favorite [...]
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Alfred Nicol’s new collection demonstrates his prodigious metrical gifts
By Shawn Phillip Cooper, PhD on Mar 26, 2025 05:00 pmComing two decades after winning the Richard Wilbur Award, Alfred Nicol’s latest collection, After the Carnival, proves that its author has only continued to develop his prodigious metrical gifts. In this, his fourth collection, he offers [...]
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John the Baptist’s call for repentance prepares the way for Christ
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Mar 26, 2025 02:16 pmAs we examine the saints whom the old Confiteor invoked in acknowledging our sinfulness, we come to St. John the Baptist. He’s the first in the list who is both completely human and a sinner. [...]
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Young Christian in Pakistan brutally attacked for refusing to convert to Islam
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 26, 2025 11:00 amA Christian boy holds a crucifix during a protest in Karachi on Aug. 22, 2023, to condemn the attack on churches in Pakistan. More than 80 Christian homes and 19 churches were vandalized in an hourslong riot in Jaranwala in Punjab province on Au... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, March 26, 2025
By CWR Staff on Mar 26, 2025 03:00 amThe Importance of a Sacramental Perspective – “The wonderful thing about the sacraments is their blessed objectivity: the fact that we have the assurance that they do confer the grace for which they’re set up, [...]
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The Rule of Law and the Francis Pontificate
By JD Flynn, JCL on Mar 25, 2025 03:38 pmThe rule of law is never subject to the slightest exception, even in times of crisis. The reason is that the rule of law is at the service of the human person and aims to [...]
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Joseph Ratzinger: The Mystery of the Annunciation is the Mystery of Grace
By CWR Staff on Mar 25, 2025 03:00 amFrom Dogma und Verkundigung, quoted in Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year (Ignatius Press, 1992): The mystery of the annunciation to Mary is not just a mystery of silence. It [...]
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Reading Flannery O’Connor for the first time
By Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin on Mar 24, 2025 08:00 pmReading Flannery O’Connor requires a stout heart and a strong stomach. In her short life, before she died of terminal lupus, she wrote two novels and roughly two dozen short stories that continue to shock [...]
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Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church
By Larry Chapp on Mar 24, 2025 07:03 pmIn a relatively unknown interview with Fr. Jacque Servais, SJ, the late Pope Benedict XVI was asked about the apparent change in the Church’s doctrine concerning the salvation of the unbaptized. Fr. Servais begins by pointing [...]
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Two more priests kidnapped by jihadists in Nigeria
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Mar 24, 2025 05:17 pmTwo more priests were kidnapped recently in Nigeria by jihadists, as Christian persecution continues in a country that, paradoxically, is experiencing exponential growth in Catholicism. Rev. Fr. John Ubaechu, the parish priest of Holy Family [...]
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Evangelium Vitae after Thirty Years
By Richard A. Spinello on Mar 24, 2025 05:00 pmMarch 25, 2025, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, marks the 30th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II’s great encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life). This prophetic work, one of several encyclicals that focus [...]
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Pope Francis makes first public appearance in weeks
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 23, 2025 02:04 pmPope Francis waves from a balcony at Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Sunday, March 23, 2025, following weeks of hospitalization for bilateral pneumonia. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Mar 23, 2025 / 07:04 am (CNA). Shortly before his exp... [...]
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“Fasting without almsgiving is entirely without benefit…”
By Daniel C. Mattson on Mar 23, 2025 04:00 amEach Lent, we are called to the penitential disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. In the past, I’ve focused on fasting most of all, believing it to be the most important of the three. It [...]
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During Lent, the devil is in the discouragement
By Matthew Becklo on Mar 22, 2025 07:44 pmAs we approach the halfway point of the Lenten season, many of us are experiencing a sort of “mid-Lent crisis.” So many things we had hoped to accomplish remain undone, half-done, or not really done—checked off, in [...]
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Pope Francis will be discharged from Gemelli Hospital on Sunday, Vatican says
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 22, 2025 02:09 pmCandles with Pope Francis’ image on them stand outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Feb. 21, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Staff, Mar 22, 2025 / 14:09 pm (CNA). Pope Francis will be discharged from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Sunday, the ... [...]
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The Mystery of God and the Lessons of the Desert
By Carl E. Olson on Mar 22, 2025 11:00 amReadings: • Ex. 3:1-8a, 13-15 • Ps 103: 1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11 • 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12 • Luke 13:1-9 When asked why they climb, professional mountaineers often give varied but interconnected reasons. They [...]
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The situation in Syria “is worse now than under ISIS”
By Antonio Graceffo on Mar 21, 2025 08:19 pm“A knife must be put to their throats… This is their medicine.” These chilling words echoed through a mosque in Idlib, a province in northwestern Syria, were spoken by a jihadist cleric inciting his followers [...]
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Unambiguous and novel visions of good and evil
By Jordan M. Poss on Mar 21, 2025 05:11 pmThe trend of retelling old stories—in movies, books, and graphic novels—with the villains recast as misunderstood good guys and monsters as outcasts oppressed by a corrupt and hypocritical society continues unabated. Vampires, werewolves, witches, zombies, [...]
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World Down Syndrome Day: How the Church works to reach Catholics with disabilities
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 21, 2025 08:45 amSister Mary Casey O’Connor, SV, and her twin sister, Casey Gunning, who has Down syndrome, speak at the March for Life Rally in 2023. / Credit: Screenshot EWTN YouTube Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 21, 2025 / 09:45 am (CNA). As Americans becom... [...]
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