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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is successful, formulaic, and dull

The Halloween season seems to creep in earlier every year, heralded this September by a long-anticipated film from the once-visionary director, Tim Burton: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. To call [...]
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Lamenting the overheated political rhetoric of our time

“A man that’d expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic, but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned [...]
Essay

Faith by moonlight: Christian hope for the healing of eating disorders

Eating disorders are a prevalent illness of the modern age and in recent decades the number of sufferers has increased globally. The majority are women [...]
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What has the Catholic Church said about Medjugorje? A timeline

The Church of St. James in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. / Credit: Miropink/Shutterstock

Rome Newsroom, Sep 18, 2024 / 12:50 pm (CNA).
After more than four decades of investigation into alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje in Bosnia a… […]
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The extraordinarily blue-collar life of a stigmatist and Servant of God

A few years ago, while at Thanksgiving dinner at my sister-in-law’s home, my wife and I were introduced to a guest who was joining us [...]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is successful, formulaic, and dull

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Sean Fitzpatrick September 19, 2024 0

The Halloween season seems to creep in earlier every year, heralded this September by a long-anticipated film from the once-visionary director, Tim Burton: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. To call this movie “long-anticipated” also refers to the fact that it’s [...]

Faith by moonlight: Christian hope for the healing of eating disorders

Essay

Sara S. Frear, PhD September 18, 2024 3

Eating disorders are a prevalent illness of the modern age and in recent decades the number of sufferers has increased globally. The majority are women but growing numbers of men have joined their ranks.1 Variants of [...]

Books

The Nicene Creed is “a medicine for our times”

Carl E. Olson September 17, 2024 6

The Nicene Creed: A Scripture. Historical & Theological Commentary, published recently by Baker Academic, is co-authored by two Catholic theologians and professors; Jared Ortiz and Daniel A. Keating. Dr. Ortiz, who is a contributor to [...]

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The many (and sometimes puzzling) paths of Pope Francis

Larry Chapp September 16, 2024 71

Here we go again with yet another papal controversy over remarks made by Pope Francis to a group of young people in Singapore concerning religious pluralism. My friend Christopher Altieri makes a good case here at [...]

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What did Pope Francis say in Singapore about religions as paths to God?

Christopher R. Altieri September 15, 2024 68

There’s a meme—or a class of them—been making the rounds on the innerwebz a good while now, riffing on a prompt: “You know you’re too [X] when …” etc. Someone needs to do one for [...]

Essay

The Declaration of Independence and current threats to liberal democracy

Paul Seaton September 14, 2024 4

The French Catholic poet, dramatist, and diplomat Paul Claudel once wrote that sometimes we need to look at our watches and ask, “What time is it?” He did not mean this literally. He meant something [...]

Analysis

What do Catholics think about synodality?

Jayd Henricks September 12, 2024 31

What do rank and file Catholics—the very Catholics synodality is meant to tap into—think about the Church’s synodality efforts? The Church herself tried to gauge this in an aborted X (formerly Twitter) poll. Of course, [...]

Features

Reagan‘s accuracy and message undermined by cheesy quality

Filip Mazurczak September 11, 2024 13

Ronald Wilson Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, was one of the great leaders of the twentieth century. His bold defense policy, rejection of détente, and support for anti-communist freedom fighters, [...]

The many (and sometimes puzzling) paths of Pope Francis

Larry Chapp September 16, 2024 71

Here we go again with yet another papal controversy over remarks made by Pope Francis to a group of young people in Singapore concerning religious pluralism. My friend Christopher Altieri makes a good case here at [...]
9/11 Revisited

James V. Schall, S.J. September 10, 2024 30
The world, the Gospel, and the Most Real Being

James Kalb September 7, 2024 13

Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 52

A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...]
Welcome to the Church of Perpetual Change and Confusion

Carl E. Olson October 19, 2023 70
Synodality, Soteriology, and “Sharing the journey”

Carl E. Olson October 10, 2023 21

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is successful, formulaic, and dull

Lamenting the overheated political rhetoric of our time

Faith by moonlight: Christian hope for the healing of eating disorders

What has the Catholic Church said about Medjugorje? A timeline

The extraordinarily blue-collar life of a stigmatist and Servant of God

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is successful, formulaic, and dull

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The Nicene Creed is “a medicine for our times”

The many (and sometimes puzzling) paths of Pope Francis

What did Pope Francis say in Singapore about religions as paths to God?

The Declaration of Independence and current threats to liberal democracy

What do Catholics think about synodality?

Reagan‘s accuracy and message undermined by cheesy quality

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