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Good Friday, Death, and Christian Life
Mary weeps at the foot of the cross, and we weep with her. But we also must not stop there. For beyond the cross of […]
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The Mystery of Creation and the Sacrament of Marriage
Readings: • Gen 2:18-24 • Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 2:9-11 • Mk 10:2-16 “No human institution,” writes Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez in Male and Female He Created Them (Ignatius Press, 2003), “is […]
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The fruits of environmentalism and of social justice (Part 1)
An emerging trend among Catholic institutions of higher education is to see themselves as direct agents of social justice. Many host social justice events, institute policies such as socially responsible investing and promote awareness of […]
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Pope Francis defends St. John Paul II against ‘offensive conjectures’ from brother of missing ‘Vatican girl’
Pope Francis at the Regina Caeli on April 16, 2023 (L) and a tapestry of St. Pope John Paul II from his canonization on April 27, 2014 (R). / Vatican Media (L) and Lauren Cater/CNA (R)
Vatican City, Apr 16, 2023 / 06:10 am (CNA).
Pope Francis o… […]
Features
Radical inclusion leads to moral confusion
I came of age in the 1960s. It was an era of civil unrest, race riots, anti-war protests, and the sexual revolution. One of the popular bumper stickers at the time stated: Question Everything. These […]
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Three pontificates and Vatican II
On the morning of October 17, 1978, the newly-elected Pope John Paul II concelebrated Mass with the College of Cardinals and pledged that the program of his papacy would be the full implementation of the […]
Features
On Musk, markets, and man
Elon Musk is a curious guy. The son of a Canadian-born model and a South African engineer, he grew up in Pretoria before moving to Canada and later graduating from the Wharton School at the […]
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Demythologizing conclaves
Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals on August 27, 16 of whom would vote in a conclave held after that date, set off the usual flurry of speculations about the […]
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Authentic moral reasoning vs. appeals to legalism
When the Church speaks definitively on morality—says that without exception something is wrong—is it declaring a truth or laying down a law? Confusion about that is rampant today. Recently I came across this statement by […]
Essay
Leveraging the Truth: The Catholic university and the future of Western civilization
It scarcely needs to be pointed out that western culture is under attack. What appeared at first to be a series of isolated skirmishes has turned into a full-frontal assault. The legitimacy and value of […]