The past, present, and future of Advent
By David Paul Deavel on Nov 29, 2024 04:00 amFor some Christians, Advent is simply an aid to memory. It is certainly that. It is also much more. For Advent is a season not only of remembering what happened long ago in order to [...]
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I Came To Cast Fire introduces readers to the unique work of René Girard
By Casey Chalk on Nov 29, 2024 03:00 amIs Catholicism still acceptable to the technocratic elites of our secular, post-Christian age? Certainly not the Catholic claim to uniquely know and safeguard absolute truth on faith and morals. Nor in the Catholic Church’s repudiation [...]
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What makes the religious so happy?
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 28, 2024 07:28 amFor committed Catholics, statistics like this come as no surprise. It’s the Gospel message in a bar-graph, the Cross in a pie-chart. / Credit: Diego Cervo / Shutterstock National Catholic Register, Nov 28, 2024 / 08:28 am (CNA). Some might be s... [...]
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Center next to Planned Parenthood helps women embrace motherhood
By Susan Ciancio on Nov 28, 2024 01:23 amFor the second time in four years, Napa Women’s Center has found itself a neighbor to Planned Parenthood. While the initial location was intentional, staff say that the recent moves of both organizations made them second-time neighbors [...]
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Thanksgiving with the Saints
By Joseph Pearce on Nov 27, 2024 05:00 pmIt is, of course, right and proper to keep Christ in Christmas, but can it be right and proper to introduce the saints into Thanksgiving? Isn’t Thanksgiving a secular holiday, as oxymoronic as that might [...]
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Thanksgiving and semi-religious sentiment
By Russell Shaw on Nov 27, 2024 11:33 amThanksgiving is one of those few national holidays when a semi-religious sentiment is allowed. It peeks through in reply to two obvious questions: Thanksgiving to whom for what? In search of an answer, it seems [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, November 27, 2024
By CWR Staff on Nov 27, 2024 03:00 amThe Catholic Vote – “Trump’s margin of victory among Catholic voters cannot be ignored.” Has Trump Made the Catholic Vote Matter Again? (National Review) A Remarkable Quarter Century – “This very month, November 2024, marks [...]
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Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation wrestles with the carnal void
By Andrew Petiprin on Nov 26, 2024 10:07 pmFrench novelist, poet, and critic Michel Houellebecq is a pessimist and a controversialist. He is also a realist, and in his latest novel, Annihilation, he writes, “However much one might despise, or even hate, one’s [...]
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Pope Francis: Synod on Synodality document part of magisterium, calls for implementation now
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 26, 2024 03:50 pmPope Francis waves to pilgrims at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 26, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Monday clarified that the f... [...]
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Ancient Egyptians, modern Catholics, and cremation
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Nov 26, 2024 01:26 pmLast November, my wife and I traveled to Boston to visit our son. While there, he took us to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, an extraordinarily rich institution still—surprisingly—not overtaken by extreme wokeness. The [...]
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Heretic is taut, well-acted, and brilliantly written
By Sean Fitzpatrick on Nov 26, 2024 02:02 amIt’s not often that a conscientious Catholic moviegoer can recommend a horror movie, rife as they are with gratuitous, unwholesome, or just downright uncomfortable content. There are limits to what people should conjure, create, and [...]
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“We are in trouble”: Catholic priests lament another jihadist group making inroads in Nigeria
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 25, 2024 03:35 pmNigerian priests, Father George Ehusani, founder of the Psycho-Spiritual Institute (PSI) and Executive Director of the Lux Terra Leadership Foundation, and Father Hyacinth Ichoku, the Vice Chancellor of Veritas University Abuja, expressed grave... [...]
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To HAL and back—and forward?
By Russell Shaw on Nov 25, 2024 03:24 pmRemember HAL? For those whose memories may not go back that far, HAL (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) was the murderous artificial intelligence machine in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Based on stories [...]
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New biography details the larger-than-life figure and faith of Cardinal Pell
By Paul Senz on Nov 24, 2024 07:08 pmCardinal George Pell was a larger-than-life figure in the recent history of the Catholic Church. This is, of course, a figurative and even literal statement: he physically towered over his fellow cardinals, and had a [...]
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Illinois diocese halts St. Jude relic tour amid ‘incident’ involving priest, students
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 24, 2024 03:25 amA candle of St. Jude. / Credit: Francesca Pollio/CNA CNA Staff, Nov 24, 2024 / 15:25 pm (CNA). A bishop in Illinois has halted in his diocese a traveling tour of a relic of St. Jude following an “incident” that allegedly took place between a vi... [...]
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Jesus Christ, the true and perfect King
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 24, 2024 03:00 amReadings: • Dan 7:13-14 • Psa 93:1, 1-2, 5 • Rev 1:5-8 • Jn 18:33B-37 The kingship of Christ is paradoxical. For instance, we hear today, in the reading from The Apocalypse, that “Jesus Christ [...]
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The Deep Places is a beautiful, profound book on suffering and belief
By Conor Dugan on Nov 23, 2024 09:49 pmI always knew Ross Douthat to be a good writer, able to advocate dispassionately and provide tight, persuasive arguments for his almost always sensible positions. The longtime New York Times columnist, who has somehow found a [...]
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What the executioner saw: The death of Blessed Miguel Pro
By Dawn Beutner on Nov 23, 2024 03:00 amWhen the five members of his firing squad took aim at José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez on November 23, 1927, what did they see? What would a Mexican soldier have noticed about the man [...]
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Good and bad sinicization: The future of the Church in China
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Nov 23, 2024 12:45 amEach generation must fight the battle anew. After watching the Berlin Wall fall in 1989, it seemed like Communism was on its heels. Today, it continues to spread and has become more assertive through China’s [...]
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St. Columbanus and the end of life
By David Paul Deavel on Nov 22, 2024 05:00 pmFor Catholics, November is effectively the year’s end and a reminder of our own end. The Church year is one in which we process through a celebration of the mysteries of Christ’s Incarnation. That is [...]
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Biden awards Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood leader Cecile Richards
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 22, 2024 03:35 pmPresident Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, photographed here with Kirk Adams and First Lady Jill Biden, in a photo posted to his X account, Nov. 20, 2024. / Credit: President Joe Bide... [...]
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