Fearlessness and the American bishops in Rome
I once knew a Congregationalist minister — Yale Divinity School graduate, decorated World War II chaplain, veteran campaigner for then-unpopular liberal causes — of whom it was said (sometimes by […]
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King Coal and the dignity of workers
I grew up hearing stories about life in the coal mines. They were delivered in my grandfather’s heavy Italian accent, and often concluded with a punchline I didn’t entirely understand. […]
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A new cardinal honors an entire nation
ROME. Even the greatest enthusiasts of the present pontificate might not assert that Pope Francis has an inspiring liturgical style. Like the old-school Jesuit he resembles in many ways, the […]
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The prophetic voice of Cardinal Robert Sarah
Pope St. John XXIII sought to initiate a new period of optimistic engagement with the modern world by opening the Second Vatican Council in 1962. He spoke of opening the […]
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Reconciling the sins of the past
Father Randy Dollins is the Vicar General and Vicar for Clergy for the Archdiocese of Denver. In this column, he shares some reflections on the Church in Colorado moving forward, […]
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The Catholic origins of Halloween
By Father Ángel Pérez-López, PhD, STL The word “Halloween” is a contraction of the expression “all hallows’ eve” or “all saints’ eve.” It is a deeply Catholic holiday. We must […]
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The ideological hijacking of Pope St. John XXIII
ROME. With his liturgical memorial (October 11) falling on the fourth full day of the Special Synod for Amazonia, which sometimes seems bent on recycling every tried-and-failed nostrum from 1970s, […]
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Historical clarity and today’s Catholic contentions
One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and a high percentage of Catholic progressives make the same mistake in analyzing the […]
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The shock of forgiveness
Every so often, the media will pick up a story that serves as a potent reminder of what it means to be a Christian. That’s because living as a Christian […]
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The importance of John Henry Newman’s canonization
Bl. John Henry Newman (1801-90) will be canonized on Oct. 13 and surely will be named a Doctor of the Church at some point in the future. Newman, known and […]
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Coloradans have chance to rescue the unborn
Some people in our pews today can remember the time when abortion was not legal. But the rest of you who are filling the seats in our churches, working various […]
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The renewal of Catholic higher education
The United States has well over 200 Catholic colleges and universities. Only a fraction of them, however, conform to St. John Paul’s statutes for Catholic universities in Ex Corde Ecclesiae. […]
