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Bishop Robert Barron
Jan 10, 20175 min read
Scorsese’s "Silence" and the seaside martyrs
(Photo courtesy of Paramount) I have long been an ardent fan of Martin Scorsese’s films. Taxi Driver , Raging Bull , Goodfellas , The...


George Weigel
Jan 8, 20173 min read
Lessons from an era of confusion
In the introduction to Aggiornamento on the Hill of Janus: The American College in Rome, 1955-1979, Msgr. Stephen DiGiovanni warns...


George Weigel
Jan 4, 20173 min read
New Year’s wishes for some Catholic brethren
2017 promises to be a challenging year for the Catholic Church. Thus some new year’s wishes: I wish Catholic progressives a calmer 2017...
George Weigel
Dec 28, 20163 min read
A “merciless assault on human dignity”
The archbishop of Toronto is given to deprecating himself as “just a simple country cardinal.” In my experience, though, Cardinal Thomas...


Larry Smith
Dec 23, 20162 min read
Adoration is like Christmas every day of the year
Eucharistic Adoration in Christ the King Chapel of St. John Vianney Theological Seminary. (Photo by James Baca/Denver Catholic Register)...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Dec 23, 20164 min read
How we answered Christ’s knock in 2016
“The Word who found a dwelling in Mary’s womb comes to knock on the heart of every person” at Christmas, Pope St. John Paul II said....
Carmen Elena Villa
Dec 22, 20163 min read
An afternoon in Bethlehem
Bethlehem is a word that is often repeated at Christmas time. “And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to...


George Weigel
Dec 21, 20163 min read
Christmas and the divine proximity
In October 2001 I had a long conversation with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. It was but weeks after 9/11; a new century and millennium were...
George Weigel
Dec 13, 20163 min read
The Persecution of Professor Esolen
(Image courtesy of Province of Saint Joseph via Flickr ) Professor Anthony Esolen is a bright jewel in the crown of Catholic higher...


Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Dec 7, 20163 min read
What saints teach us about living Advent
“Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come,” Jesus counsels us in the Gospel reading for the First...
George Weigel
Dec 7, 20163 min read
Books for Christmas
Take a stand against the electrification of reading and consider the following, in properly bound form, as gifts for those on your...


George Weigel
Nov 30, 20163 min read
A (liturgical) new year’s resolution
If the civil new year is an occasion to resolve to Do Better in the future, the liturgical new year, the real new year that begins at...
Larry Smith
Nov 30, 20162 min read
Building a culture of life in Colorado
There’s no reason for a woman to have an abortion in Colorado, which has been legal for decades. And there’s no reason for anyone to take...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Nov 28, 20162 min read
Letter from the bishops of the Archdiocese of Denver to the immigrant Hispanic community
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ in the immigrant Hispanic community: We know that the outcome of the elections this week has raised...
George Weigel
Nov 22, 20163 min read
On our need for the real Thomas More
Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film, A Man for All Seasons . And if it’s impossible to imagine such a picture on such a...
George Weigel
Nov 16, 20163 min read
Gloucester fisherman, American veteran, Polish benefactor
Photo by Robert Breuer – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Two weeks before Veterans Day, 88-year old World War II vet Curtis Dagley of...
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Nov 10, 20163 min read
100 years later, Fatima message rings true
On May 13, 1917, three children named Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta were grazing their family’s flock of sheep when the Virgin Mary...
George Weigel
Nov 9, 20163 min read
Catholicism embodied: “The Pivotal Players”
Looking for some uplift after this tawdry election cycle? Some inspiration for tackling what lies ahead? A good way to enrich Advent?...
George Weigel
Oct 25, 20163 min read
The end of an era, the interment of an event
Alfred Emmanuel Smith (1873-1944) served as Governor of New York for four terms and earned the gratitude of all civilized people by...
Carmen Elena Villa
Oct 19, 20162 min read
Q&A: Woman is more than what she does
Annie Oakley told Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, “anything you can do, I can do better.” According to Pia de Solenni, however, what...
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