Stacked decks, “Conversation in the Spirit,” and the Catholic future
By George Weigel on Jan 08, 2025 04:00 amVarious cultures—English, Turkish, Chinese—claim to have invented the maxim, “The fish rots from the head down” (a favorite in Your Nation’s Capital during the unhappy years when the Redskins/Commanders were owned by Daniel Snyder). Applied [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 8, 2025
By CWR Staff on Jan 08, 2025 03:00 amHow A Cardinal Landed in D.C. – Sources “close to the process told The Pillar [that] Cardinal Cupich privately represented the nomination [of Brian Burch to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Holy See] [...]
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On the obsessive grievances and perpetual rupturing of liberal “reformers”
By Larry Chapp on Jan 08, 2025 12:39 amAmerica Magazine recently ran an article by Mary McAuliffe entitled “Women and LGBTQ Catholics are paying the price for church unity” (Jan. 2, 2024). The essay is completely unremarkable except insofar as it underscores and [...]
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Analysis: Understanding the Vatican’s novel leadership structure of a pro-prefect and a nun
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on Jan 07, 2025 01:45 pmPope Francis addresses cardinals and senior Vatican officials during his annual Christmas speech to the Roman Curia, Dec. 22, 2024 / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 7, 2025 / 14:45 pm (CNA). In a move that raised eyebrows among Vatican... [...]
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California bars faithful Catholic families from the foster care system
By Anne Hendershott on Jan 07, 2025 08:00 amDemanding special rights has been a successful strategy of the transgender advocacy movement. From lobbying for federal mandates for the inclusion of biological males on high school and college women’s sports teams to requirements for [...]
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As the Augustine Institute grows, it remains focused on its founding mission
By Brian Miller on Jan 06, 2025 04:18 pmIn April 2024, Augustine Institute announced its plans to move its operations to a new campus in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. The educational and evangelization apostolate has been based in Denver since its founding [...]
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Pope Francis names Cardinal Robert McElroy to lead Washington, D.C. archdiocese
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 06, 2025 09:08 amRome Newsroom, Jan 6, 2025 / 06:08 am Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, bishop of San Diego, to lead the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., the Vatican announced Monday. The 70-year-old cardinal, who holds doctorates [...]
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Taiwan, China, and the Regina Caeli
By David Pinault on Jan 05, 2025 10:16 pmOne way to meet folks and make friends abroad in a strange city: take mass transit, get lost on the subway, look confused, and ask for help. I must confess it didn’t work some years [...]
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My Top 10 movies of 2024
By Nick Olszyk on Jan 05, 2025 08:17 pmAnother year has come and gone in the history of cinema, now approaching its 130th anniversary. This was a great year for movies, perhaps the best since the lockdowns of 2020. Here are my picks [...]
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Etienne Gilson’s essential book on philosophy and its history
By Dr. Edward Feser on Jan 05, 2025 08:00 pmYou might suppose from the title of Etienne Gilson’s The Unity of Philosophical Experience [orig. 1937; Ignatius Press, 1999] that it is a book about philosophy in general. And ultimately it is. But its bulk is [...]
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Hopes rise for Christians as Church leaders meet new Syria leader
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 04, 2025 01:00 pmThe heads of Churches and their representatives in Syria meet the de facto leader. / Credit: Add Alsama/Facebook ACI MENA, Jan 4, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As Syria navigates a transitional phase, questions abound regarding the Church’s role in sh... [...]
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Saints are Not Angry: Reflections on Martin Scorsese’s The Saints
By Dawn Beutner on Jan 04, 2025 04:30 amAs a Catholic, I am grateful that a respected Hollywood filmmaker chose to spend his time and talents to produce a television show about, of all subjects, Catholic saints. After all, Martin Scorsese has been [...]
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Epiphany and Mary’s mysterious, maternal role in salvation history
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 04, 2025 04:00 amReadings: • Isa 60:1-6 • Psa 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13 • Eph 3:2-3A, 5-6 • Mt 2:1-12 Pope Paul VI, in the Apostolic Exhortation, “Marialis Cultus” (Feb. 1974), emphasized that the “Christmas season is a [...]
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A Crusader Goes Home: An Homage to Siobhan Nash-Marshall
By Joseph Pearce on Jan 03, 2025 08:08 pmA few weeks ago, on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12), a great crusading spirit passed from this land of exile to her true home. Siobhan Nash-Marshall’s death, following a long and [...]
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“Who’s to say?” On Faith, Reason, and Being Subject to Truth
By Prof. William E. Carroll on Jan 09, 2025 09:59 pmIt is a common view that in social situations, one ought to avoid discussions that concern religion and politics. Such an injunction has its roots in fundamental confusions about judgments concerning right and wrong, good [...]
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BREAKING: Court strikes down Biden’s Title IX ‘gender identity’ rule nationwide
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 09, 2025 03:45 pmBreaking News / CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 9, 2025 / 13:45 pm (CNA). A Department of Education rule to ban discrimination against a person’s self-asserted “gender identity” in K–12 schools and colleges was blocked nationwide by a f... [...]
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Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Desert: Bishop Varden on the Desert Fathers
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jan 09, 2025 04:30 amJesus told us we must “seek first the kingdom,” but where should we find it? In the ancient world, St. Antony the Great inspired thousands to follow him into the desert, seeking solitude to focus [...]
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The straight line of split morality from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jan 09, 2025 12:22 amHistory is often burdened by hoary myths that take on a life of their own, independently of what “really happened,” in order to establish a certain narrative. We’ll likely hear one such myth this April, [...]
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There is so much we can—and do—know about Jesus, Mary, and miracles
By Jerry Salyer on Jan 08, 2025 06:58 pmFr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., observes in Christ, Science, and Reason that the refutation of those who have denied Jesus’ existence as a historical person may be summed up in a single word: Tacitus. This first-century [...]
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