Courage in a Time of Uncertainty Aristotle famously wrote that, “Hope is a waking dream.” Hope, to indeed be hope, must awake; it must be a dream that is made real. China’s dreams for religious […]
Today at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his 85th birthday in traditional Bavarian style. In addition to receiving a delegation of Bavarian bishops and government officials who traveled to Rome for the occasion, the […]
Christianity Today has a wide-ranging interview with Ross Douthat about his new book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Free Press). Here are a couple of excerpts: Douthat has taken his own […]
From an essay by George Weigel, “Framing the Religious-Liberty Issue”, posted today on NRO: The Ad Hoc Committee’s statement also underscores that what the bishops are seeking to clarify for all Americans is a fundamental […]
Here are few items of eccentric interest that caught my attention recently. • On the Brown University website, the curious story of the discovery of a rare print depicting Jesus being baptized in the Jordan—rendered […]
Not in the realm of theology or regarding devotional material, but in addressing threats to religious freedom. From Christianity Today: Despite differences over contraception, evangelical leaders have fallen in step with Catholic bishops over what […]
In the Wall Street Journal, frequent CWR contributor Anne Hendershott writes with Christopher White about the latest—and quite promising—news on priestly vocations in the U.S: After the 2002 scandal about sexual abuse by clergy, progressive […]
Mark Shea has posted commentary and an illustrative video on the National Catholic Register site about how England, in the course of a few decades, has gone from a Christian country to a multi-cultural country […]
The news broke today that North Korea’s attempt to launch a long-range rocket apparently ended in failure: North Korea’s much hyped long-range rocket launch on Friday ended in apparent failure, South Korean officials said, dealing […]
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