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Category: Pope Pius XI

“The Children of Disobedience”: America and the Second Great Awakening

Progressives and forward-looking elites pride themselves on being or becoming “woke.” In common with other advocates of supposedly new and improved products and ideas, however, contempt for anything other than their own opinions often leads […]

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Ask Your Husband is a superficial, ideological, and incoherent “guide”

Reading Stephanie C. Gordon’s Ask Your Husband: A Catholic Guide to Femininity feels like a meandering stroll down a familiar lane. I was raised in conservative evangelicalism, and Gordon echoes many of the messages I […]

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Extra, extra! News and tidings, February 8, 2022

• The 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki: The air was electric with a holy silence, all Nagasaki dumb with grief, as the parade of martyrs marched past toward the hilltop where their crosses waited. The Galleon, […]

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Is Jesus Your Lord and King?

Image: Stained glass window at the Melkite Catholic Annunciation Cathedral in Roslindale depicting Christ the King with the regalia of a Byzantine emperor. (January 2009 photo by John Stephen Dwyer [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons) “Everyone who b…

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Seeds Planted in Afghanistan 

Ines A. Murzaku: We’ve had saintly examples of Catholic witness among Muslims before, and the results in Afghanistan may someday surprise us.

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How Homosexuality Harms the Church

David Carlin wants a papal re-statement of Church teaching on homosexuality but doubts it will happen, or that America’s bishops will do so.

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Accepting the Rule of Christ

  “Does He reign over my mind, will, and heart?” For those of us who call the United States of America our home, Christ the King might not be the image of Jesus that resonates with us the most. We have been raised on stories of the Ame…

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Infallibility: The Unopened Gift

Russell Shaw: Popes retain their right to make infallible pronouncements, but there is little danger the Church will ever become an infallibility factory.

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Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy Kingdom Come

“Waiting for the Barbarians,” Constantine Cavafy’s poem about civilizational collapse, describes a geriatric Rome so desiccated and demoralized that it is almost entirely without hope. It has roused itself on one failing elbow to grasp at a last chance for regeneration—the barbarian hordes rumored to be approaching, doubtless to sack and burn, but perhaps also […]

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