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Cardinal Sarah says contemporary Church is experiencing ‘temptation of atheism’

Cardinal Robert Sarah addresses members of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon (NECC) on April 9, 2024. / Credit: NECC

ACI Africa, Apr 15, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
A subset of Church leaders have aligned themselves with modern-day value… […]
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How prayer can strengthen us and help build a culture of life

How many times have you heard people say that prayer does nothing? They often mock us for praying during times of crisis. But when disaster [...]
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9 facts about Catholics in the U.S., according to Pew research

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CNA Staff, Apr 15, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
The Pew Research Center released a new fact sheet Friday that contains nine demographic and statistical facts about the Catholic population in the United States, based on the… […]
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Approaching Balthasar

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) is considered by many to be the greatest theologian of the twentieth century. Balthasar is said to have been Saint [...]
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Easter and the call to deeper conversion

The story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, which immediately precedes today’s Gospel and is unique to St. Luke, is one of my [...]

Approaching Balthasar

Books

Richard Clements April 14, 2024 9

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) is considered by many to be the greatest theologian of the twentieth century. Balthasar is said to have been Saint John Paul II’s favorite theologian, and he was one of [...]

Dignitas Infinita: Strengths and Ambiguities

Analysis

Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ, E. Christian Brugger April 13, 2024 30

The claim implicit in the title of the DDF’s recently published Declaration, Dignitas Infinita (DI), has generated considerable controversy. The matter of infinite dignity Do human beings have infinite dignity? Certainly, those who through baptism receive a share in the [...]

Books

The Spiritual Terrain of David Middleton

James Matthew Wilson April 12, 2024 1

About midway into his fifth and most recent book of poems, Outside the Gates of Eden, David Middleton prints an elegy for the late Louisiana naturalist Caroline Dormon. There, he speaks of his “early poems,” [...]

Essay

St John Paul II’s wisdom about person and sex for our anti-human age

Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. April 11, 2024 27

Today the crisis of the human person seems to be reaching a nadir. The apparent successes of efforts to promote confusion about sex and sex difference, which strike at the foundation of the human person, [...]

Analysis

The missing lens and the key weakness of Dignitas Infinita

David Deane April 10, 2024 38

Moral beliefs linger on after the reasons for them have been forgotten. We need only look at our own Western secular culture for an example of this. Morals without moorings In our culture, those who [...]

Features

Nigerian Catholics address reasons behind ongoing violence

R. Cavanaugh April 9, 2024 9

Year after year, Islamic extremists in Nigeria have been perpetrating massacres. And, year after year, major media outlets in the West tend to frame these incidents as general banditry or climate change-related land struggles between [...]

Columns

Social class today

James Kalb April 8, 2024 8

Ethnicity, class, and sex are always with us. Members of different societies develop differences in habits, attitudes, and loyalties that grow into cultural and eventually ethnic distinctions. A complex society includes activities whose demands, qualifications, [...]

Essay

A Sunday Known by Many Names

Father Seán Connolly April 7, 2024 6

The Second Sunday of the Easter Season is known by many names: the Octave Day of Easter, Low Sunday, Dominica in Albis Depositis, Quasimodo Sunday, Thomas Sunday, and in more recent times as Divine Mercy Sunday. The meaning [...]

Social class today

James Kalb April 8, 2024 8

Ethnicity, class, and sex are always with us. Members of different societies develop differences in habits, attitudes, and loyalties that grow into cultural and eventually ethnic distinctions. A complex society includes activities whose demands, qualifications, [...]
Creation’s Rebellion: What changed after the Fall?

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. April 1, 2024 17
Cardinal McElroy, homosexuality, and the repudiation of doctrine

Larry Chapp March 17, 2024 110

Welcome to the Church of Perpetual Change and Confusion

Carl E. Olson October 19, 2023 68

I recently was on the road for a while and went to Mass at a parish (in another state) that I’d never been to before. The small church was quite lovely, the liturgy quite reverent, [...]
Synodality, Soteriology, and “Sharing the journey”

Carl E. Olson October 10, 2023 19
Who is really trying to replace doctrine with ideology?

Carl E. Olson August 28, 2023 181

Cardinal Sarah says contemporary Church is experiencing ‘temptation of atheism’

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A Sunday Known by Many Names

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