A Christian Consideration of Critical Theory
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 18, 2025 12:07 amIn Carl R. Trueman’s most recent book, titled To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory From Marx to Marcuse (B&H Academic, 2024), the noted scholar and author hones in on the much-discussed but not always well-understood history, foundations, [...]
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Carmelite martyrs of Compiègne and the strength of the Holy Spirit
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Jul 17, 2025 07:07 pmToday marks a historic day in the Catholic calendar: it is the first time in history that Thérèse de Saint-Augustin and her companions, the Carmelite martyrs of ç, have their feast day as canonized saints. [...]
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Superman is quirky, entertaining, and ideology-free
By Nick Olszyk on Jul 17, 2025 12:30 pmMPAA Rating: PG-13 Reel Rating: 3.5 out of 4 reels Superman is one of pop culture’s best-known Christ figures, and now comic book juggernaut James Gunn has released the third great cinematic adaptation of the [...]
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Living the Gospel of Life by supporting those who are vulnerable and lonely
By Susan Ciancio on Jul 17, 2025 11:00 amTwo recent stories illustrating the vulnerabilities of priests have deeply saddened me. In early July, Father Matteo Balzano, a young Italian priest, took his own life. Father Matteo’s suicide shocked his parishioners, as they had not [...]
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Pope Leo XIV and the question of women in Holy Orders
By Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D. on Jul 16, 2025 08:46 pmPope Leo XIV, formerly Robert Cardinal Prevost, ascended to the papacy during a period of profound theological inquiry and heightened institutional introspection within the Church. His election took place against the backdrop of the Church’s [...]
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Australian bishops call on government to enforce country’s surrogacy ban
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 16, 2025 11:05 amThe Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is urging lawmakers to prohibit surrogacy in all cases in a letter submitted on July 9, 2025. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Jul 16, 2025 / 12:05 pm (CNA). The Australian Catholic Bishops Confere... [...]
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Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate
By George Weigel on Jul 16, 2025 04:00 am“Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the 1950s, when those primitive calculating machines could occupy the entire floor of a building. That [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, July 16, 2025
By CWR Staff on Jul 16, 2025 03:00 amThe Successors of Peter – “The identity of modern Catholics comes with our recognition of a legal jurisdiction. Catholics recognize a legal authority—the pope—under whose governance their religion is to be lived.” Something of a [...]
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The role of pilgrimages in engaging the whole parish
By Jayd Henricks on Jul 15, 2025 08:05 pmFr. Jonathan Wilson, a priest of the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, is the pastor of Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Westerville, Ohio. Here he shares the experience of pilgrimaging to Italy with his [...]
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The courts and recent pro-life developments
By Charles J. Russo on Jul 15, 2025 03:03 pmIn 2021, the Supreme Court finally invalidated the disastrous Roe v. Wade, wherein the Justices, over fifty years ago, “discovered” the heretofore unknown constitutional right to abortion emanating from “penumbras” in the Bill of Rights. Dobbs [...]
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Miami archbishop calls for administration, Congress to change course on immigration
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 15, 2025 11:53 amMiami Archbishop Thomas Wenski serves on the Committee on Migration of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. / Credit: “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”/EWTN News screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 15, 2025 / 12:53 pm (CNA... [...]
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St. Bonaventure, Benedict XVI, and divine revelation
By William L. Patenaude on Jul 15, 2025 04:00 amJoseph Ratzinger’s early contributions to the topics of divine revelation, human history, and the relation between the two, which brought him both praise and charges of championing “dangerous modernism,” continue to assist the Church in [...]
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Notre-Dame Cathedral welcomes more than 6 million visitors since reopening
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 14, 2025 11:10 pmNotre-Dame de Paris (French for “Our Lady of Paris”), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. / Credit: Sam valadi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Pr... [...]
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Catholics and “Sodom and Gomorrah”
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jul 14, 2025 05:32 pmDuring the current and long stretch of Ordinary Time, the famous towns of Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned several times during the Readings for Mass. When Catholics today hear “Sodom and Gomorrah,” what comes to [...]
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Aquinas and prudential judgment
By Dr. Edward Feser on Jul 13, 2025 06:41 pmIn contemporary debates in Catholic moral theology, a distinction is often drawn between actions that are flatly ruled out in principle and those whose permissibility or impermissibility is a matter of prudential judgment. For example, [...]
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Footprints of Freedom: Walking with Cardinal‑Martyr Iuliu Hossu
By Ines Angeli Murzaku on Jul 13, 2025 06:20 pmImagine tracing history with your own feet, stepping where defenders of faith once trod and letting their courage inspire you. For more than twenty years, I have taught a course entitled “Italy in the Footsteps of [...]
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The noble heart and the Good Samaritan
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 13, 2025 01:00 amReadings: • Deut 30:10-14 • Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37 • Col 1:15-20 • Lk 10:25-37 “The heart,” wrote St. John Chrysostom, “is the most noble of all the members of our body.” [...]
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Former liberation theology leader calls on Latin American bishops to focus on Christ
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 12, 2025 08:40 pmFriar Clodovis Boff belongs to the Order of the Servants of Mary. / Credit: Lennoazevedo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jul 12, 2025 / 08:40 am (CNA). Friar Clodovis Boff has written an open letter to the bishops of the... [...]
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The Warning Against Sloth
By Thomas P. Harmon on Jul 12, 2025 02:00 pmThe Warning and the problem of noise It is easy to underestimate The Warning at first glance. Three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico, who first came to attention through a viral Metallica “Enter Sandman” cover as [...]
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The joys, sufferings, and spiritual fruits of the marriage of Louis and Zelie Martin
By Dawn Beutner on Jul 12, 2025 03:00 amWhile Saint Thérèse of Lisieux seemed to live an ordinary life in a middle-class French family, her autobiography is far from ordinary. The Story of a Soul has inspired millions of Catholics to recognize that, [...]
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Science, faith, and a worthy universe
By Thomas M. Doran on Jul 11, 2025 03:19 pmHumans have sought to identify order on Earth and in the heavens for thousands of years: Egypt, Sumer, Persia, Aristotle and Euclid’s Greece, to the present day. Observations, experiments, measurement, reasoning from phenomena, theories proven [...]
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