Why I Am Not a Baptist

Loyola University Maryland renaming dorm that honored Flannery O’Connor

By Catholic News Agency on Jul 31, 2020 01:34 am
CNA Staff, Jul 30, 2020 / 05:01 pm (CNA).- The president of Loyola University Maryland announced Friday that the Flannery O’Connor Residence Hall was being renamed, saying, “some of her personal writings reflected a racist [...]
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Master of Victims: Wokeness and the current war against Truth

By Jack Gist on Jul 30, 2020 07:52 pm
“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.” — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance (Ignatius Press, [...]
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Will Catholic foster care be next?

By Russell Shaw on Jul 30, 2020 01:32 pm
Does the Catholic Church have a right to follow its convictions about sexual morality in its own institutions without being penalized by government? In its June decision declaring “gay” and “transgender” to be protected categories [...]
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Dorothy Day, precarity, and the universal call to holiness

By Larry Chapp on Jul 29, 2020 07:43 pm
Eugene McCarraher, in his new book The Enchantments of Mammon, makes the claim that the modern world, far from being a highly secularized and profane world devoid of spiritual “enchantments,” is in fact a world [...]
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Vatican II and Religious Freedom: Rupture or Authentic Development?

By Carl E. Olson on Jul 29, 2020 06:30 pm
Editor’s note: The following interview, originally posted at CWR on November 11, 2015, is reposted in light of the recent discussions about the Second Vatican Council. One of the most contentious and heavily debated topics [...]
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Joe Biden endorsed by pro-abortion NARAL

By Catholic News Agency on Jul 29, 2020 05:06 pm
CNA Staff, Jul 29, 2020 / 12:30 pm (CNA).- The abortion-rights group NARAL has  endorsed Joe Biden for president, just over a year after the group issued a scathing statement demanding he reverse his support [...]
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The Next Pope and the Crisis of the West

By George Weigel on Jul 29, 2020 03:01 am
In February 1968, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła wrote Father Henri de Lubac, SJ, about a project in which the cardinal was engaged: a philosophical explanation of the uniqueness and nobility of the human person. The idea [...]
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Former Cosmo writer: “I wrote this book as an act of atonement.”

By Paul Senz on Jul 28, 2020 08:34 pm
Over the last 60 years or so, the “sexual revolution” has transformed nearly every aspect of American society. Propaganda for the sexual revolution flowed from the pages of such publications as Cosmopolitan, where a young [...]
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Why I Am Not a Baptist

By Casey Chalk on Jul 28, 2020 05:07 pm
I am persuaded God has a sense of humor. When I was once a Presbyterian, Calvinist seminarian, I tried, without result, to persuade my then-Reformed Baptist girlfriend that paedobaptism—the practice of baptizing infants and children—had [...]
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The Triumph of Truth: Overlooking the Obvious

By F.X. Cronin on Jul 28, 2020 12:03 am
Given the many technological and scientific advances over the last two hundred years, it is startling to consider the stupefying malaise and paradoxical plague that prevents so many of us from seeing the obvious truths [...]
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