During the 10:30 Mass in my parish a couple of Sundays ago 32 boys and girls stood in front of the altar, faced the congregation, and formally affirmed their desire to be confirmed. It was […]
One doesn’t have to travel very far into either atheist or Protestant Fundamentalism to run into a sort of pseudo-scholarship that aims to assert that Catholic Christianity is basically warmed-over paganism. It goes like this: […]
November 21, 2014 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of Vatican II’s central document, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. If the articles that this occasions reflect a strain of theological commentary on this text […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: (4 reels out of 5) As the name implies, Big Hero 6 is a larger than life movie filled with an impressive array of superheroes. It’s an […]
Thou wast cast out in the open field… in the day that thou wast born. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, I said unto thee, Though thou art […]
The Reverend Doctor Athanasius D. McVay is a Canadian-born historian and priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). He specializes in the 20th-century history of Vatican diplomacy and of the UGCC. He is an […]
While the United Nations and its various agencies, such as UN Women, are forcefully advocating reproductive rights and all that they intend the phrase to mean (such as abortion), the people of one developed country […]
On August 31, 1939, nine-year-old Maria Sikorski in Gdansk, Poland, prayed she wouldn’t have to go to the first day of school on the following day. Her prayer was answered, but in a way she […]
“So the power of deception, which is over others’ minds (symbolized by the invisibility given by the Ring), is an essential component to the power over others’ bodies and lives and actions. Machiavelli and Hitler […]
Editor’s note: On October 20th, Helen Hull Hitchcock, founding director of Women for Faith and Family and editor of Adoremus Bulletin (and a contributor to CWR), died in St. Louis after a short and sudden […]
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