Columns
Putting Down Roots: Care for Creation Begins Close to Home
I know better than to declare victory before the summer is over, but this has been the first year in quite a while that our [...]
Putting Down Roots: Care for Creation Begins Close to Home
Columns
I know better than to declare victory before the summer is over, but this has been the first year in quite a while that our pumpkin, watermelon, and cantaloupe vines have all made it through [...]
No Reconciliation without Contrition and Confession
Essay
It was highly amusing for me to read the comments to my “Winnowing Weasel Words” piece, recently published by CWR. First, I was described as an American, and then, when the editor pointed out that [...]
Books
T.S. Eliot’s Complete Simplicity
In her admirably updated and revised critical biography, T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Lyndall Gordon plunders the various works of her subject to show how suffused they are with the travails of the life, especially the [...]
Essay
Why Catholics should reject the month and myth of “trangendered Saints”
It’s worth noting that there were fewer Pride flags and celebrations this June than in years past. But Catholics never needed the secular calendar’s permission to know that June actually belongs to the Sacred Heart [...]
Features
Pursuing peace, addressing extremism in Nigeria: An interview with Fr. Atta Barkindo
Fr. Atta Barkindo, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Kukah Centre, has been appointed to a high-level expert team tasked by Nigeria’s Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) with developing a comprehensive National Peace Framework. [...]
Columns
Babel today
At its highest levels, political life today is an attempt to reach heaven through purely human means—that is, to construct Babel. That attempt is partly motivated by institutional interests, but at bottom has to do [...]
Analysis
Unbroken: News from the Church in China
Sitting in the room with Chinese priests and nuns is always an exercise of patient listening and reading between the lines. Sometimes—it is not typically characteristic of Chinese culture to speak directly—someone is blunt. That [...]
Essay
Winnowing Weasel Words
Popes have long been political players on the world stage. In recent times, John Paul II worked with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan to bring down the Berlin Wall. Benedict XVI addressed a joint sitting [...]
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“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...] -
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DeaconEdwardPeitler:
Oscar: well done, indeed.
Sandra Miesel:
CoE marriages are just as valid as ours. The couple administers the sacrament to each other. The validity cleric's orders…
