Essay
The Triumph of the Therapeutic Mentality
“It is not experience we should trust but the transmutation of experience by Scripture and Tradition.” — Aidan Nichols, OP1 By the triumph of the [...]
The Triumph of the Therapeutic Mentality
Essay
“It is not experience we should trust but the transmutation of experience by Scripture and Tradition.” — Aidan Nichols, OP1 By the triumph of the therapeutic mentality, indeed therapeutic way of life, I mean a [...]
Aramean Christians, Israel, and Gaza: An interview with Shadi Khalloul
Features
Shadi Khalloul vividly remembers the moment his “American dream” died. It was the moment a teacher at the University of Nevada Las Vegas described Aramaic as a dead language. The class was studying the Bible [...]
Columns
Tweets and tyrants
What use is Twitter (now called “X” but still better known as “Twitter”)? It has millions of users, who can post whatever they want, so there’s lots of information on very different topics. Sometimes there’s [...]
Essay
The Eucharistic miracle along the Camino de Santiago
As I prepare to lead pilgrims in a few weeks along a portion of the “Camino de Santiago, the Way of St. James,” I discovered in my research the story of a Eucharist miracle that [...]
Analysis
The Case of Bishop Stowe
The Catholic bishops of the United States have been a prophetic voice in defense of the faith and the dignity of the human person. The bishops are attuned to the events that matter most to [...]
Chapp's Schtick
On culture wars and the hypocrisy of the Catholic Left
The term “culture warrior” is often invoked, usually pejoratively, to describe a certain kind of conservative Catholic who fights in the political sphere for the Catholic viewpoint to be enshrined in law on certain hot-button [...]
Features
“Jesus Thirsts” film “is an encounter with Jesus”
Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, the chancery office for the Diocese of Orange in California, recently hosted the premiere of a new movie on the Holy Eucharist: “Jesus Thirsts: The Miracle of the Eucharist.” The [...]
Essay
The English-language version of the Catechism is 30 years old this month
For those of us who grew up in the wake of the Second Vatican Council—the era of felt banners and guitar Masses—the confusion over what the Catholic Church taught was real. The catechesis of the [...]
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A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...] -
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Carl E. Olson:
Thank you, Brian, for this. We've updated the post. Our apologies for the error.
Athanasius:
"Perhaps too much attention is being spent on the homosexual phenomenon and too little on sexuality in general." Perhaps not.…
mrscracker:
Anyone who suffers a disordered attraction can be a good Catholic, Will. Whether we're attracted by avarice, power, gluttony, lust,…
