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Nick Kristof’s comfortless Christmas

Nick Kristof wants Jesus dead. The New York Times columnist has released another Christmas interview, this time with Princeton professor Elaine Pagels. The headlines, along with the online reaction, [...]
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A Polish meal of faith on Christmas Eve

As we make our way towards Christmas, I reflect on how Catholics of Polish ancestry make that journey. My wife is likely to be spending [...]
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Jimmy and the Patriarch, at Christmas

The post-Christmas liturgical calendar may seem a bit Scrooge-like, as the child-centered, innocent joy of the Nativity is quickly followed by three feasts of a [...]
Clark on China

China’s Catholics in 2024: A Year in Review

“Even though the New China continues to reject Christianity and tries to wipe away all traces of Christianity from its land, a dialog between Christianity [...]
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Pope Francis at Sunday Angelus before Christmas: ‘No child is ever a mistake’

Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer and gives an address from the chapel of Casa Santa Marta on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, at the Vatican. The pope delivered his marks indoors due to the intense cold, combined with cold symptoms that have manifest… […]

Nick Kristof’s comfortless Christmas

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Nathanael Blake December 23, 2024 2

Nick Kristof wants Jesus dead. The New York Times columnist has released another Christmas interview, this time with Princeton professor Elaine Pagels. The headlines, along with the online reaction, focused on Pagels’ denial of the virgin birth. As the [...]

China’s Catholics in 2024: A Year in Review

Clark on China

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. December 22, 2024 10

“Even though the New China continues to reject Christianity and tries to wipe away all traces of Christianity from its land, a dialog between Christianity and Mao’s ideology is essential.” — Fr. Domenico Grasso, SJi [...]

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The Complementarity of Roles: Women and the Diaconate

Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D. December 20, 2024 44

The question of women’s admission to the diaconate profoundly engages ecclesiology, sacramental theology, and the Church’s fidelity to divine revelation. This issue, which has garnered increased theological attention, especially in light of the Synod on [...]

Columns

The Christian Image of Man

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. December 19, 2024 10

If you’re living and breathing in 2024, you doubtlessly already know that our culture is awash in confusion about what it means to be human. In a way like never before, clichés like “my body, [...]

Books

Book on holy Irish men and women was inspired by Pope Benedict XVI

Paul Senz December 18, 2024 7

The Catholic Church in Ireland is in trouble. Seminaries are nearly empty, as are many churches, and a nation turning its back on its Catholic roots by legalizing and promoting abortion, divorce, and more. But [...]

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Correction over Communion can be complicated, but is also crucial

Daniel B. Gallagher December 17, 2024 26

Following a brief meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on February 18th, 2009, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a statement expressing her joy for the opportunity to have met the pope and to have [...]

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Kneeling and the selective “listening” of synodality

Larry Chapp December 16, 2024 99

Amy Welborn recently penned a spot-on analysis of the recent missive from Cardinal Blase Cupich informing the members of his diocese that kneeling to receive communion is no longer permitted. Cardinal Cupich does not explicitly [...]

Books

A robust philosophical defense of the immortality of the soul

Dr. Sam Nicholson December 15, 2024 23

The immortality of the soul is among the most consequential matters in all of philosophy. The stakes could not be higher for the individual or society, for what is at issue is whether the moral, [...]

China’s Catholics in 2024: A Year in Review

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. December 22, 2024 10

“Even though the New China continues to reject Christianity and tries to wipe away all traces of Christianity from its land, a dialog between Christianity and Mao’s ideology is essential.” — Fr. Domenico Grasso, SJi [...]
The Christian Image of Man

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. December 19, 2024 10
Kneeling and the selective “listening” of synodality

Larry Chapp December 16, 2024 99

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 103

The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...]
Reflections on a dozen years as editor of Catholic World Report

Carl E. Olson November 2, 2024 25
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 57

Nick Kristof’s comfortless Christmas

A Polish meal of faith on Christmas Eve

Jimmy and the Patriarch, at Christmas

China’s Catholics in 2024: A Year in Review

Pope Francis at Sunday Angelus before Christmas: ‘No child is ever a mistake’

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Nick Kristof’s comfortless Christmas

China’s Catholics in 2024: A Year in Review

The Complementarity of Roles: Women and the Diaconate

The Christian Image of Man

Book on holy Irish men and women was inspired by Pope Benedict XVI

Correction over Communion can be complicated, but is also crucial

Kneeling and the selective “listening” of synodality

A robust philosophical defense of the immortality of the soul

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China’s Catholics in 2024: A Year in Review

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