Columns
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and the road to recovery
Guillermo del Toro was born to make a Frankenstein movie. Growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he divided his time between the Catedral de la Asunción de María [...]
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and the road to recovery
Columns
Guillermo del Toro was born to make a Frankenstein movie. Growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he divided his time between the Catedral de la Asunción de María Santísima and local cinemas, where he was exposed early on [...]
The truth about Venerable Mary Ward, proto-religious sister and future Saint
Essay
Few American Catholics have ever heard of Mary Ward. The more recent books and articles about her tend to portray her as a proto-feminist, a seventeenth-century Catholic woman who spent her life fighting for the [...]
Chapp's Schtick
Modernism revisited and ressourcement theology defended
As most close observers of Catholicism today are no doubt aware, there has arisen over the past 15 years or so a movement that goes by the rather vague moniker of “radical traditionalism”. The exact [...]
Columns
The fundamental crisis of contemporary culture and the wisdom of St. Thomas
Editor’s note: This interview was posted originally on January 27, 2020. Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., is a priest of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph. He has written for a number of Catholic and theological [...]
Essay
Remembering Cardinal Mercier (1851–1926): Thomist, Ecumenist, Mariologist
This year marks the centenary of the death of Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier of Belgium, who died on January 23, 1926. Priest, Archbishop, Cardinal Born in 1851 in the French-speaking region of Brabant, Belgium, Mercier entered the diocesan [...]
Essay
On the centrality of the Word of God in the life of the Church
This Sunday celebrates the centrality of the Word of God in the life of the Church. We are also fast approaching the onset of Lent. With that in mind, I would like to urge you [...]
Features
Archbishop Gänswein: With Pope Leo, “normality” is returning to the Vatican
In an exclusive interview with EWTN News, Pope Benedict XVI’s former secretary said “normality is slowly returning” to the Vatican with Pope Leo XIVJan 23, 2026 / 06:27 am (CNA). Archbishop Georg Gänswein says last [...]
Books
“It is in the sacrament of the Eucharist where we profit from His Passion”
The Eucharist is at the heart of our lives as Catholics, a truth that the Church has long recognized and celebrated. But what does that mean? What role does the Eucharist play in our lives? [...]
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Guillermo del Toro was born to make a Frankenstein movie. Growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he divided his time between the Catedral de la Asunción de María Santísima and local cinemas, where he was exposed early on [...] -
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Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s [...] -
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Carl E. Olson:
Right. You've not helped your case. Quite the contrary. "Bullying"? Good grief. Passive-aggressive much?
Anna:
I am not sure if the contrast is mitigated or enhanced via an addition of facts: “Leo urges Cardinal Víctor…
