Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions

DEI is a Trojan Horse inside the Catholic school

By Dan Maher on Apr 03, 2023 12:52 pm
A school with an office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is not a self-confidently Catholic school. The school’s leaders believe social justice requires bolstering the Cross of Christ, the Gospels, and Catholic social teaching [...]
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The Cardinal who stared down Communism

By Sean Salai on Apr 02, 2023 09:42 pm
At the start of the 1955 British film The Prisoner, a regal cardinal played by Alec Guinness finds Communist secret police waiting for him as he walks out of Mass in an anonymous Central European [...]
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John Paul II and the way of the Cross

By Robert Mixa on Apr 02, 2023 07:09 pm
John Paul II stood close to the cross for most of his life. Many people likely remember him holding, almost embracing, his cruciform crosier at an old age, noticeably burdened in pain. His life was [...]
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Christ’s Invitation from the Cross: The Seven Last Words

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Apr 02, 2023 04:00 am
Holy Week intensifies our Lenten spiritual exercises, focusing us particularly on Christ’s Passion. From the Cross, he invites us to share in his sacrifice, so that we may in turn share in his glory. The [...]
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Games theologians play with truth and morality

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Apr 01, 2023 01:35 pm
Not too long ago, Randall Smith accused Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of playing Jenga with Catholic theology. Jenga is a game in which players take turns removing crisscrossed wooden blocks that make up a tower, [...]
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French bishops vote to open sainthood cause of Henri de Lubac

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 01, 2023 10:00 am
Henri de Lubac / Society of Jesus Rome Newsroom, Apr 1, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). French bishops have voted to open the sainthood cause of 20th-century theologian Henri de Lubac.The French bishops’ conference announced on March 31 that the opening... [...]
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Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions

By Carl E. Olson on Apr 01, 2023 03:00 am
Readings:  • Mt. 21:1-11 • Isa. 50:4-7 • Psa. 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil. 2:6-11 • Mt. 26:14-27:66 When hearing a passage as dramatic as today’s Gospel, what do you focus on? What catches [...]
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Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is filled with bracing, demanding beauty

By James Jeffrey on Apr 01, 2023 01:17 am
People usually rave about the Met. Many consider it, not without justification, to house the world’s greatest art collection. While Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is also considered one of the world