Is the Shroud of Turin merely a ‘work of art’?

Saint Dominic and the Dominican witness to truth By Dawn Beutner on Aug 08, 2025 04:00 am What would you do if someone you knew claimed to be a Christian but also professed beliefs that were dangerous to his health, his relationships, and even his salvation? Dominic de Guzman’s response was to [...] Read in browser » Remembering James Hitchcock (1938-2025), Historian of Crisis and Faith By Kevin Schmiesing on Aug 07, 2025 07:22 pm I was saddened to learn of James Hitchcock’s death on July 14th at the age of 87. Like most people, my first encounter with the distinguished historian and author came through one of his books. [...] Read in browser » German bishops divided sharply over same-sex blessing guidelines By Catholic News Agency on Aug 07, 2025 02:23 pm St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin, Germany. / Credit: Cedric BLN via Wikimedia (Public domain) CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:23 am (CNA). German bishops are divided sharply over implementing blessing guidelines for same-sex couples, with a compre... [...] Read in browser » African Catholic leaders gather in Abidjan for historic jubilee Congress By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Aug 06, 2025 07:34 pm The third Pan-African Catholic Jubilee on Theology, Society, and Pastoral Life opened August 5 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, bringing together the continent’s largest assembly of African Catholic theologians, pastors, lay leaders, and others. A landmark [...] Read in browser » The ”We Believe” Festival is a joyful sign of a growing revival in Britain By Joanna Bogle on Aug 06, 2025 05:10 pm The Guild of Our Lady of Ransom: the name has a splendid ring to it. As well it might, as an organisation founded in 19th-century England in the years following Fr (later Cardinal, now Saint [...] Read in browser » Is the Shroud of Turin merely a ‘work of art’? Years of study suggest otherwise By Catholic News Agency on Aug 06, 2025 04:14 pm The Shroud of Turin in the Cathedral of Turin during the public opening of the Shroud on April 19 2015. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA CNA Staff, Aug 6, 2025 / 11:14 am (CNA). Few religious artifacts have been studied and debated as extensively a... [...] Read in browser » A Rahnerian surprise By George Weigel on Aug 06, 2025 04:00 am Karl Rahner, SJ (1904-1984), one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, is a favorite whipping boy for many traditionally minded Catholics. Yet Rahner was something of a split personality. Part of [...] Read in browser » Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, August 6, 2025 By CWR Staff on Aug 06, 2025 03:00 am Disappearance of Confession – “A new book charts the rise and fall—and perhaps disappearance—of Catholic confession.” How Many Hail Marys for a Lost Sacrament? (ARC) Liberal Protestantism, R.I.P. – “Mainline Protestantism lost interest in the [...] Read in browser » Yes, Virginia, there Is a Satan: A Conversion Story, Part One By Sara S. Frear, PhD on Aug 05, 2025 08:00 pm Having shared the story of my healing from an eating disorder in these pages last year (“Faith by Moonlight,” September 18, 2024), I have been invited to relate how that healing led to my entry [...] Read in browser » Opinion: There is a better way to house detainees By Dr. Robert Warren on Aug 05, 2025 07:07 pm The current administration is making good on one of President Trump’s campaign pledges to carry out mass deportations of foreign nationals residing in the U.S. without proper authorization. The Washington Post has reported that arrests increased [...] Read in browser » Transfiguration and prayer: Often misunderstood, they are deeply related By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Aug 05, 2025 05:00 pm Did you ever walk into a theater while the last showing was still going on, so that you saw the end of the film before the beginning? That is something like the experience Peter, James, [...] Read in browser » Report on “religious extremism” focuses on Catholicism, ignores Islam By Matthew Balan on Aug 05, 2025 12:27 am A recent document by a European think tank decries the “accelerating financial expansion of movements working to dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.” The report, published by the Brussels-based European Parliamentary [...] Read in browser » “What are we living for?” Solzhenitsyn and the true purpose of freedom By Jerry Salyer on Aug 04, 2025 11:06 pm “Let us admit, even if in a whisper, and only to ourselves: in this bustle of life at breakneck speed – what are we living for?” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “We Have Ceased to See the [...] Read in browser » The richness of life beyond physical disabilities By Susan Ciancio on Aug 04, 2025 06:12 pm Imagine being told that your life has limited value because you are missing an arm or a leg. I was recently reminded of this when my mom told me a story about the daughter of [...] Read in browser » Newman and His Critics offers many insights into Newman as controversialist By Carl R. Trueman on Aug 04, 2025 01:18 am Of all nineteenth-century Catholic thinkers, John Henry Newman is the one who continues both to shape intellectual currents in modern Catholicism and offer an interesting dialogue partner to Protestants such as myself. While his patristic [...] Read in browser » Cardinal John Henry Newman on… By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Aug 03, 2025 07:48 pm On the Blessed Virgin Mary I recollect one saying among others of my confessor, a Jesuit Father, one of the holiest, most prudent men I ever knew. He said that we could not love the [...] Read in browser » Does diversity cover a multitude of sins? By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Aug 03, 2025 06:18 pm What is the purpose of education? Is it, as Justice Sonya Sotomayor recently wrote in dissent of Mahmoud v. Taylor, “that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but [...] Read in browser » Pope Leo XIV speaks to 1 million youth at jubilee: ‘Stay with us, Lord’ By Catholic News Agency on Aug 03, 2025 08:15 am Pope Leo XIV greets thousands of youth and pilgrims ahead of a vigil at Tor Vergata, Rome, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025 / Credit: Mateusz Opila Vatican City, Aug 2, 2025 / 18:15 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV addressed the largest crowd of his pontificate in... [...] Read in browser » Meeting Doctor Newman By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Aug 02, 2025 06:47 pm Surprise and delight were the common responses to the announcement that this past week Pope Leo XIV approved the proposal of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints that St. John Henry Cardinal Newman be [...] Read in browser » The Red-Pilled Church By Larry Chapp on Aug 01, 2025 09:28 pm In the 1999 movie The Matrix, a dark and dystopian vision of the future is presented in which humanity is trapped within a virtual simulation concocted by intelligent computers. The movie, which has become a [...] Read in browser » Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission still has not learned its lesson By Charles J. Russo on Aug 01, 2025 05:40 pm What can aptly be described as a dystopian situation continues in Colorado. The owners of Born Again Used Books, a small family-owned Christian bookstore in Colorado Springs, sued the state over a new law adopted [...] Read in browser » The Fantastic Four: First Steps is fantastically pro-family and pro-life By Sean Fitzpatrick on Aug 01, 2025 11:00 am There can be a cultural connection between the serious and silly. Such is the function of satire and irony. Currently, there is a movie blowing the top off the box office that is either satirical [...] Read in browser »