“All my books come from some kind of love”
By Paul Senz on Feb 18, 2021 06:51 pmDr. Peter Kreeft is a prolific writer. Stunningly prolific. This is a man who has taught philosophy at Boston College since 1965, while maintaining a robust schedule as an in-demand speaker on all things Catholic—although [...]
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“Wokeism” in France: The chickens coming home to roost
By Bishop Robert Barron on Feb 18, 2021 03:59 pmI will confess that one of the biggest laughs I’ve had in the last several months was occasioned by a recent article in The New York Times by Norimitsu Onishi. In this lengthy piece, the [...]
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A powerful analysis of American awakening, fracturing, and addicting
By Larry Chapp on Feb 17, 2021 09:51 pmThe idea that our culture is post-Christian is an antiquated bromide that is dangerous because it masks a truth that is even more troubling. And that truth is that our culture is now post-post-Christian insofar [...]
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What happened to the USCCB working group on Biden?
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 17, 2021 09:18 pmWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 17, 2021 / 03:57 pm (CNA).- A source at the U.S. bishops’ conference (USCCB) has disputed the notion that a special working group formed to deal with new President Joe Biden [...]
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“And let my cry come unto Thee”: On Ash Wednesday
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 17, 2021 04:20 amSalutem in Domino (Health and salvation in the Lord)! That traditional Latin greeting encapsulates our hope and prayer every day of our lives, but one that we raise with particular intensity for the next forty [...]
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Exodus, Lent, and becoming a true nation
By George Weigel on Feb 17, 2021 03:45 amTen years ago, I began a most extraordinary Lent by walking up the Aventine Hill to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the first day of the Roman station church pilgrimage – an eight-week journey [...]
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From Dust, through Death, to Life
By Fr. Charles Fox on Feb 17, 2021 03:01 amEach Lent is a microcosm of our whole lives. “Remember that you are dust”—Lent begins on Ash Wednesday with a reminder of our very humble origin in the dust of the earth. “And to dust [...]
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Poland and Abortion
By Filip Mazurczak on Feb 16, 2021 04:00 pmWhile Argentina legalized abortion on demand until fourteen weeks after gestation and the United States has inaugurated what will unquestionably be a very pro-abortion presidency, Poland has bucked the international pro-abortion trend as its Constitutional [...]
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On Lent and “being alive when we die”
By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Feb 16, 2021 02:36 pmD.W. Winnicott (1896-1971) differed from most clinicians of his generation by not rejecting his Christian upbringing. Unlike Freud’s famous (and jejune) dismissal of religion, Winnicott realized that images and notions of God come naturally to [...]
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New website aims to educate, offer Catholic response to gender ideology
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 16, 2021 12:04 pmDenver Newsroom, Feb 16, 2021 / 03:09 am (CNA).- A newly relaunched Catholic website aims to educate parents, pastors, and teachers about gender ideology, which the website’s founders believe young people are often being exposed [...]
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The Feast of the Holy Face and repaying our Lord’s infinite love
By Father Seán Connolly on Feb 16, 2021 03:30 amFor most across the Catholic world, today’s significance lies in relation to what comes tomorrow—the beginning of our Lenten fast on Ash Wednesday. As a result, it is a day known by many names. It [...]
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Lent: Why the Christian must deny himself
By CWR Staff on Feb 15, 2021 03:05 pmEditor’s note: The following essay was originally published in the February 2000 issue of Homiletic & Pastoral Review, and was later posted on Ignatius Insight. The author, Brother Austin G. Murphy, O.S.B., has been Abbott [...]
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Opinion: Who are the real deplorables?
By Chilton Williamson, Jr. on Feb 15, 2021 03:00 pmWhen the clutch safety switch on my pickup truck failed the other day and it had to be towed a couple of miles to the auto repair shop I expected I’d need to call a [...]
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How these seminarians in New Orleans plan to celebrate Mardi Gras
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 14, 2021 08:58 pmDenver Newsroom, Feb 14, 2021 / 02:00 am (CNA).- Mardi Gras in New Orleans has been canceled only a handful of times, including during World War I and II, and the Spanish flu pandemic in [...]
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Love and the Skeptic
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 13, 2021 11:36 pmSaint Valentine's Day is a good time to remind ourselves that human love is an imitation, a reflection, of the divine love that created all [...]
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St. Valentine’s Day and the Marital Mission
By Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D. on Feb 13, 2021 10:52 pmOne of the most special Valentine’s gifts spouses can give to each other is to recommit to working daily on fulfilling the Catholic mission of their marriage. This work requires an understanding of marriage, oneself, [...]
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Abp. Naumann: Pres. Biden “should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic”
By Jim Graves on Feb 13, 2021 05:16 pmJoseph F. Naumann, 71, has served as Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas since 2005. He was born in St. Louis, was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of St. Louis in 1975 and an auxiliary [...]
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Christianity: “Pie in the sky” religion or “island of mercy and security”?
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 12, 2021 11:41 pmOn the Readings for Sunday, February 11, 2018 [...]
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From transgender to transhuman: The expanding culture of death
By Anne Hendershott on Feb 12, 2021 07:44 pmMost faithful Catholics have viewed the burgeoning transgender industry as encouraging a misguided belief that individuals—including even pre-school children—can change their God-given identity. However, the truth is that this rejection of human nature and natural [...]
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San Francisco archbishop: State can’t close churches, ‘science’ is on our side
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 12, 2021 03:45 pmWashington D.C., Feb 12, 2021 / 10:30 am (CNA).- Government officials cannot close churches as “non-essential” establishments during the pandemic—particularly when they are contradicting the “science” in doing so, the Archbishop of San Francisco wrote [...]
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