When is the last time you saw someone display courage? We know it exists among public servants: soldiers, policemen, firefighters. We know it existed among the first responders at 9/11. We find it in people […]
It’s easy, I confess, to be cynical about, well, nearly everything, including sports, which have been a big part of my life since I was a young boy. Marcus Mariota, the quarterback of the #2 […]
A month ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a collection of cases which raised the question of traditional marriage vs. same-sex unions. Now, a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision may have changed […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: (3 reels out of 5) [Spoiler alert: This review contains several key plot elements and details.] The first images of director Christopher Nolan’s space opera Interstellar are […]
When people are brought together for a special service in Britain—on Remembrance Sunday at a local War Memorial, or a Christmas carol service at a school—the service almost always includes the Lord’s Prayer. But over […]
Andrea Gagliarducci is one of Rome’s leading “Vaticanistas.” His blog “Monday Vatican” and countless columns and articles for the Catholic News Agency, the National Catholic Register, Inside the Vatican, and the Italian journals Il Tempo […]
In the course of his long career as priest, poet, historian, philosopher, educator, theologian, novelist, and satirist, Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890) became something of a connoisseur of what he called “the tin-kettle accounts of […]
German actress Alissa Jung visited the United States and Canada in November to promote Mary of Nazareth, a 2012 movie by Italian director Giacomo Campiotti in which Jung portrays the Mother of God. The English-language […]
As I work my way through all the thoughtful and thought-provoking material coming out of this week’s Humanum colloquium in Rome, I want to encourage CWR readers to read—or watch—Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’ speech, which […]
Every youth minister and high school teacher faces this problem at one time or another: One of his or her kids confides he or she identifies as gay. “They are hurt or angry or ashamed. […]
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