What’s in a Name?
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jan 03, 2025 04:00 amJanuary 3 is the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. Does that feast make sense to people today? To appreciate its meaning, we need to give up some modern thinking and recover Biblical [...]
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What’s in a Name?
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jan 03, 2025 04:00 amJanuary 3 is the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. Does that feast make sense to people today? To appreciate its meaning, we need to give up some modern thinking and recover biblical [...]
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The 24 most popular Catholic World Report stories and articles of 2024
By CWR Staff on Jan 02, 2025 08:08 pm1). “What did Pope Francis say in Singapore about religions as paths to God?” (Sept 15, 2024) by Christopher R. Altieri. “The pontiff’s recent remarks to a group of young people have caused a furor [...]
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In hindsight, 2024 was a year of limits
By Kevin Tierney on Jan 02, 2025 03:24 pmAt this time of year, writers tend to be introspective, looking back and trying to find trends to help people make sense of what happened. In doing this, we try today to follow the words [...]
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Jubilee 2025: New Year’s resolutions and resources
By George Weigel on Jan 02, 2025 04:00 amJubilee 2025 began on Christmas Eve 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s in Rome, and will conclude on January 6, 2026, when that door of the Vatican basilica is closed. [...]
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“Rosary in a Year” podcast wants to help you to love saying the Rosary
By Susan Ciancio on Jan 01, 2025 01:00 pmOur God is an amazing God—a Father who loves and cares for us more than we could ever fathom. He chose a beautiful young woman for His mother. He chose a faithful foster father. He [...]
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The timeliness of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jan 01, 2025 03:45 amThe Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God has, in modern times, become somewhat confused. Not too long ago, it was the “Circumcision of the Lord” (the account of which remains the Gospel) because, as the [...]
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A “biological vessel” used by God? Or the Mother of God, chosen by God?
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 01, 2025 03:20 amReadings: Nm 6:22-27 Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 Gal 4:4-7 Lk 2:16-21 “If anyone believes that holy Mary is not the mother of God (Theotokos), he has no share in the divine inheritance”, wrote the [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 1, 2025
By CWR Staff on Jan 01, 2025 03:00 amChristianity Is Not Utopianism – “We must train ourselves to see things as they are, ourselves as we are. To have Christian hope is not to expect everything to work out alright.” Conversation with Matteo [...]
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The overlooked mystery of the Circumcision
By David Paul Deavel on Dec 31, 2024 08:00 pmIt’s pretty odd, isn’t it? In our age in which all sorts of things having to do with our private parts are shouted from TikTok and blared from the YouTube channel, we really don’t talk [...]
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The New Saints and Blesseds of 2024
By J. J. Ziegler on Dec 31, 2024 01:31 pmFifteen new saints and sixteen new blesseds were honored in the two canonization ceremonies and eleven beatification ceremonies that took place in 2024. Then, a week before Christmas, sixteen Discalced Carmelite nuns were canonized through [...]
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Cardinal Koch remembers Benedict XVI and his legacy on second anniversary of death
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 31, 2024 11:00 amPope Emeritus Benedict XVI on April 7, 2012. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Dec 31, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Cardinal Kurt Koch celebrated a pontifical Mass at the tomb of Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, marking the se... [...]
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Nosferatu is a frightening wake-up call
By Andrew Petiprin on Dec 30, 2024 10:39 pmF.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film Nosferatu is a landmark of early cinema, memorialized in the Catholic world by its inclusion on the 1995 Vatican Film List. In the opening title card, the film calls itself “a symphony [...]
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The state of Christianity in England today and tomorrow
By Joanna Bogle on Dec 30, 2024 02:34 pmMy father’s Commission from World War II is kept in our home and will be passed down to the next generation (along with my husband’s, similarly worded) from Queen Elizabeth II. Some years before inheriting [...]
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Judge says Wisconsin trial against McCarrick will remain suspended until his death
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 30, 2024 02:05 pmFormer cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at Massachusetts’ Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021. / Credit: Andrew Bukuras/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA). A Wisconsin judge last week ordered that a sexu... [...]
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A conversation with Joseph Pearce about Ignatius Critical Editions
By Paul Senz on Dec 29, 2024 11:06 pmThere are many problems with the education system in the United States and throughout Western society. These are problems in society as a whole, which have infected the education system. Literature studies are not immune. [...]
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The new Nosferatu is spooky, exciting, and God-less
By Nick Olszyk on Dec 29, 2024 06:52 pmMPAA Rating: R Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 reels F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) is one of the first great horror films ever made, even though it was a brazen rip-off of Bram Stoker’s [...]
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A Holy Family is one totally dedicated to God
By Fr. Charles Fox on Dec 29, 2024 04:00 amThe celebration of Christmas has a way of amplifying our ordinary family experience. For a loving and harmonious family, Christmas tends to be the time when its familial bonds are tightened. The members of such [..]
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On Saint Gaspar del Bufalo’s unrelenting devotion to the Precious Blood of Christ
By Dawn Beutner on Dec 29, 2024 12:00 amSaint Gaspar del Bufalo (Jan 6, 1786-Dec 28, 1837) never intended to establish a religious society1 in the Church. He simply wanted to bring souls to Jesus Christ. But Gaspar’s example inspired many of his [...]
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The Holy Family and the call to faithful obedience
By Carl E. Olson on Dec 28, 2024 02:25 pmReadings: • Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 • Psa 128:1-2, 3, 4-5. • Col 3:12-21 or 3:12-17, or 1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24 • Lk 2:41-52 What is a “family”? A few decades ago, most Americans would have [...]
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The Flowers of the Martyrs
By Sandra Miesel on Dec 27, 2024 08:00 pm“Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the Magi, was exceedingly angry; and he sent and slew all the boys in Bethlehem and all its neighborhood who were two years old or under…” [...]
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Norwegian bishop partners with EWTN and Exodus 90 for new ‘Desert Fathers’ podcast series
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 27, 2024 11:00 amBishop Erik Varden, OCSO, of the Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim, Norway, at the vespers at Santa Maria dell’Anima in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Dec 27, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim, No... [...]
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Children’s book offers the first “lives of saints’ animals”
By Sean Salai on Dec 27, 2024 08:00 amAlexi Sargeant is a Catholic high school humanities teacher in Hyattsville, Maryland. He and his wife, writer Leah Libresco Sargeant, have three young children. Mr. Sargeant, a former assistant editor at First Things, holds a [...]
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