Dante in the Underworld by George Augustus Wallis. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When I was 24, I was asked at the last minute to substitute teach a religious education class at ...

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By William J. Slattery I am in awe of Father William Slattery’s command of his subject. He is, after all, covering 1,600 years of Western civilization — a civilization that he argues was “born from ...

Bishop James Conley Most Reverend James D. Conley, DD., STL, is the bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. Before his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to the see of Lincoln in September 2012, he served as ...

In the first part of this reflection we reviewed the painful year of 2020, focusing on the social and political ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic. This installment examines the Church’s response ...

Woodward Fire – Burnt Trees and Ash, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons We are all familiar with Blessed John Paul II’s description of the Culture of Death in his 1995 encyclical, Evangelium ...

Deborah Savage Deborah Savage is Professor of Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is a recognized scholar of the work of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and has written extensively on ...

C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), commonly called C. S. Lewis was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist. Born in ...

Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce is Director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute, editor of the St. Austin Review and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. Among the books he has ...

And maybe nothing is easier to misplace than our hope. St. Josemaria even considers that “perhaps there is no greater tragedy for man than the sense of disillusionment he suffers when he has corrupted ...

But he who wishes to be counted worthy of such great glory must, I say, bear his cross. And what is it to bear the cross? It is to die to the world by denying its empty distractions and abandoning a ...

Fear is contagious.Philip Lawler Phil Lawler is the editor of Catholic World News (CWN) and the director of Catholic Culture. He attended Harvard College and did graduate work in political philosophy ...