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Grieving Charlie Kirk: Why His Death Feels So Personal for Me and So Many Others

(Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia CC-BY 4.0) I have been stunned at how personal Charlie Kirk’s death feels for me. Literally, I have been...

Mary Beth Bonacci

Sep 23, 20255 min read

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Exploring the Heavens: Vatican Observatory Welcomes New Leadership

Father Richard Anthony D’Souza steps into a role this month that has been shaped by Jesuits who have bridged science and faith for...

Joseph Kneusel

Sep 22, 20254 min read

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What Is Your Catalyst for Change?

(Photo: Unsplash) A person will stay in their status quo — no matter how unfulfilling or even painful it may be — until the discomfort of...

Paul Winkler

Sep 19, 20254 min read

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Prayer, the Rescue Inhaler: What My Child's Asthma Taught Me About the Spiritual Life

Without prayer, the world shrivels up before us; with prayer, the Spirit expands our souls to contain God’s love. (Photo: Adobe Stock)...

Allison Auth

Sep 18, 20254 min read

Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah? Growing Up in a Love Triangle Obsessed Culture

(Photo: Prime Video AU & NZ, Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) By Mary O'Gara The Summer I Turned Pretty seems to have us all hooked this...

Guest Contributor

Sep 17, 20253 min read

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A heroic example

Cal Ripken Jr. ("The Iron Man"), shortstop with the Baltimore Orioles, practicing his swing before a game against the Detroit Tigers at...

George Weigel

Sep 17, 20253 min read

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For and Against: Catholics Take Sides on Tariffs

A container terminal in Manila, Philippines. (Photo: Unsplash) Tariffs, duties imposed on imported goods, have been causing global...

Jared Staudt

Sep 11, 20254 min read

Let’s make America serious again

The Great Cracker Barrel Logo Fracas is the least of our worries in the US. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Having spent most of...

George Weigel

Sep 10, 20253 min read

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Catholic Teaching on Sex: Why Marriage Is the Key to Lasting Fulfillment

Studies show married Catholics who save sex for marriage report the greatest fulfillment — here’s why. (Photo: Lightstock) Have you...

Mary Beth Bonacci

Sep 9, 20255 min read

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Time to move beyond “synoding”?

(Photo: Unsplash) In the first volume of his trilogy, Jesus of Nazareth , Pope Benedict XVI saluted the important contributions that...

George Weigel

Sep 3, 20253 min read

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The Beauty of Spiritual Motherhood: A Tribute to My Aunt and Godmother, Cora Cain

(Photo provided) This column is late. And we are taking another break from our Theology of the Body series, to which we will return next...

Mary Beth Bonacci

Sep 1, 20254 min read

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Why I’m Catholic

(Photo provided) St. Paul certainly could not boast about his conversion. He didn’t read his way into the Church. He wasn’t compelled by...

Jared Staudt

Aug 28, 20254 min read

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Jesus Gives Us Excess So Others Can Have Access

Worldly success promised fulfillment, but left me restless. Only Jesus gave me freedom and abundant life. (Photo: Lightstock) It was just...

Tanner Kalina

Aug 27, 20255 min read

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Ukraine and a peace worthy of the name

(Photo: Pexels) Pope Leo XIV’s spiritual lodestar is St. Augustine. In his first months in office, the Holy Father summoned the Church to...

George Weigel

Aug 27, 20253 min read

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'You Are Loved': How Sacred Art and Our Lady of Guadalupe Revealed My Worth

In a world filled with fleeting images, one picture of Our Lady became the channel of grace that brought me home to the Church. Our Lady...

Elizabeth Zelasko

Aug 22, 20254 min read

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Why am I (Still) a Roman Catholic

For Paul Winkler, faith is both a universal and a deeply personal thing: the God of the universe has become a personal friend. (Photo...

Paul Winkler

Aug 22, 20254 min read

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I Asked If Anyone Would Miss Me — God’s Answer Changed My Life

Bullied, lonely and searching for belonging, I found more than I imagined — a relationship with the living God. (Photo provided) All my...

Allison Auth

Aug 21, 20254 min read

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Our age of martyrdom

Bl. Miguel Pro was but one of the thousands of martyrs who gave their lives for the faith in the twentieth century. Their stories are...

George Weigel

Aug 20, 20253 min read

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Restoring What’s Missing in Catholic Education

(Photo: Lightstock) “I sent my children to Catholic school from kindergarten through college, and now they don’t practice the faith.” ...

Jared Staudt

Aug 14, 20254 min read

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A Rahnerian surprise

Portrait of Karl Rahner by Letizia Mancino Cremer, edited. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0) Karl Rahner, SJ (1904-1984), one of...

George Weigel

Aug 6, 20253 min read

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