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• Dale Ahlquist discusses three Chesterton classics...
• The challenge of being black and Catholic in the U.S.
• Benedict XVI on Christ's prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane
• Sen. Rubio: "The issue of life is not a political issue...it is a definitional issue."
• Hell hath no fury like an abortion mill spurned
• Candlemas and the consecrated life
• Everything you need to know about the New York Times...
• The Ratzinger brothers
• Georgetown turns the ball over. Notre Dame scores.
• Starbucks goes Brokeback
• The Pope and the new Patriarch of Venice
• "The Catholic Church's position on contraception is not widely appreciated..."
• New: Shadows and Images: A Novel
• And Much More!
• Cross, Altar and the Right Way of Praying | Fr. Stefan Heid | Recalling the
rituals and rubrics of the past, which retain their meaning today.
• Becoming Men of Christ | Jim Graves | Profiles of 7 men who are challenging
other men to grow in faith and holiness.
• The Catholic Faith Is Not a Noble Lie | Thomas Storck | We need a real debate
on religious questions providing a rational public apologetic for the faith.
• The Truth About Falsely Accused Priests | Dave Pierre | The
accused are often presumed guilty until proven innocent, while the media distorts the narrative of child abuse in the U.S.
• On Hearing Clearly the Church's Teaching | Fr. James V.
Schall, S.J. | We have too few bishops with voices.
• A Distinguished Past, a Changing
Present, an Online Future | Carl E. Olson | CWR has a new editor and a new format, but the same goals.
• "The Best Books I Read in 2011..." | Ignatius Press Authors,
Editors, and Friends | A reader favorite!
• In The Footsteps of Saints | Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. | A
visit to Catholic villages where thousands of Catholics were martyred in the early 20th century.
• China's Catholics: Sixty Years of Faith, Resistance, and Reaching
for Freedom | Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D | Many Chinese Catholics reject the propaganda of the Catholic Patriotic Association.
• What is the Nativity? | Fr.
James V. Schall, S.J. | Christmas cards and the truth about Christmas.
• Introduction to Abbot Vonier's The Life of the World to
Come | Fr. Edward T. Oakes, S.J. | Our hope does not terminate in heaven alone but, as the Creed says, in vitam venturi saeculi.
• The Beginning of the Mystery (and the Nature of the Church's
Mission) | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | "The Church's mission has its origins in the mystery of the triune God..."
• Zen: What Catholics Should Know | Dr. Eric Cunninghma | Is Zen too mysterious
and paradoxical to be grasped by the common "linear-thinking" western herd?
• "She Did It For Jesus" | From
Mother Teresa of Calcutta--A Personal Portrait: 50 Inspiring Stories Never Before Told, by Monsignor Leo Maasburg.
• Priestly Formation Today | An Interview with Deacon James
Keating, Director of Theological Formation at the Institute for Priestly Formation, Creighton University.
• The Worthiness of the Liturgy | Fr. Hans Urs von
Balthasar | An excerpt from New Elucidations, a collection of essays on pressing topics.
• The Preface to Gertrud von le
Fort's The Song at the Scaffold | Insight Scoop | The Preface to
The Song at the Scaffold.
• Theology, Sanity, and the Trinity | Carl E. Olson | On
Frank J. Sheed's masterful work, Theology and Sanity.
• Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, and Father
Damian | Monsignor Leo Maasburg | From the book, Mother Teresa of
Calcutta: A Personal Portrait.
• Gifts and Rights | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | On the challenge of living
in a "rights" oriented culture.
• The
Introduction to A Bitter Trial Dom Alcuid Reid | The introduction to A
Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes.
• What Has "All Saints" to Say to Us Today? | Fr. Hans
Urs von Balthasar | What does it meant to be a saint?
• Make a
Concerted Effort to Silence the Noise in Your Life | Teresa Tomeo | An excerpt from Extreme Makeover.
• "No Small Matter" | Fr.
James V. Schall, S.J. | On what the Holy Father said in Germany about Martin Luther, sin, salvation, and the grace of God.
• Shakespeare: A Conversation | Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. and Joseph Pearce | Who really was William Shakespeare?
• What Would She
Want? | Msgr. Leo Maasburg | The Preface to Mother
Teresa of Calcutta--A Personal Portrait: 50 Inspiring Stories Never Before Told.
• From Behind the Iron Curtain to the Belly of the
Beast | Eva Muntean | The journey from Communist Hungary to present-day San Francisco.
• Yes, Steve Jobs was an innovating
genius. But... | Carl E. Olson | On how Steve Jobs' perspective of the bigger picture was seriously lacking.
• Icons and the Mystery of Christ | Christoph Cardinal
Schönborn | Introduction to Man, the Image of
God: The Creation of Man as Good News.
• Benedict and Mozart on True Happiness | Msgr. Daniel B.
Gallagher
• Excerpts from Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Weeek | Pope Benedict XVI
• Brumley and Olson Discuss Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week | Mark Brumley
and Carl E. Olson
• "A Symphony of the Word" | Carl E. Olson
• On the Image and the Mystery of the
Cross | Thomas Howard
• Possessed of Both Reason and Revelation: Revisiting
Regensburg | Brian Jones, MA
• Four Reasons the Works of Mercy Are Important | Fr. Andrew Apostoli, C.F.R.
• Truth Seekers: Why We Need an Authentic Metaphysics of the Human Person | Brian
Jones, M.A.
• What Difference Does Heaven Make? | Peter Kreeft
• The Heretical Roots of
Fundamentalism | Carl E. Olson
• Knowing and Doing the Will of God | Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.
• When Pregnancy Met Pregnancy | Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
• The Trinity: Three Persons In One Nature | Frank Sheed
• Sunday Mass at Beijing's North Church | Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D.
• Pink Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | Gail Deibler Finke
• The Tragedy of Democracy without Authority: A Reflection on Maritain and Thucydides | Jose Maria
J. Yulo
• I Invite You to Meet A Warrior for Life | Peter Kreeft
• Is Gonzaga still a Jesuit, Catholic university? | Eric Cunningham
• The Ultrasound | Abby Johnson
• The ACLU's Not-So-Holy Trinity | Dr. Paul Kengor
• Physics, Metaphysics, and the
Medievals | An interview with Stanley Grove, Ph.D.
• No Easy Answers: An Interview with Shanghai's Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian, S.J. | Anthony E.
Clark, Ph.D.
• How the Great Wind Came to Beacon House | G. K. Chesterton
• G.K. Chesterton, the Poet | Denis J. Conlon
• St. Thomas More | G. K. Chesterton
• A Simple Thought | G. K. Chesterton
• The Gospel and the Origin of Christian
Monasticism | Peter H. Görg
• Saint John of Avila and the Reform of the
Priesthood | Sr. Joan Gormley
• The Holy Inquisition: Dominic and the Dominicans | Guy Bedouelle, O.P.
• St. Dominic and the Friars Preachers | Jordan Aumann, O.P.
• Remembering China's Franciscan
Saints | Anthony E. Clark
• Painting the Pope | An Interview with Ann Kissane Engelhart
• The Call and Craft of the Catholic Novelist | An Interview
with Fiorella De Maria
• The Soul of Solzhenitsyn | An Interview with Joseph
Pearce
• What We All Know--And Why We Can't Not Know
That We Know It | An interview with J. Budziszewski
• "God Created Saint Paul and Then Broke the Mold" | Interview with Joseph M. Callewaert
• A Friendly Introduction to Catholicism | Interview with Fr.
Dwight Longenecker
• Freedom to Bind Oneself:
Benedict XVI on Engagement and Marital Love
• Catholic Social Thought in Proper Context
• The Mass: The Gift of the Father
• On Examining Anti-Catholic "Reasons"
• Sixty Years a Priest
• The Opening Pages of The Father's Tale: A Novel | Michael
D. O'Brien
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The State of the Arts and the Restoration of Beauty | An Interview with David Clayton
• Tolkien's Faith | Sean McGuire
• Plumbing the Sacramental Depths of Prog Rock | Bradley J. Birzer
• The Opening Chapters of Poor Banished Children: A
Novel | Fiorella De Maria
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Dogma And Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to
Daily Life (2nd Ed)
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
This volume is an unabridged edition of Dogma and Preaching, a work that appeared in a much-reduced form in English, in 1985. The new book contains twice as much material as first
English edition. "Dogma", for many people, is a bad word. For the well-informed believer, it shouldn't be. Dogmas are truths revealed by God, which should enlighten the minds,
guide the choices, and gladden the hearts of Jesus' disciples, including pastors, deacons, and lay teachers. But, as Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), notes in the foreword
to this book, "The path from dogma to proclamation or preaching has become very troublesome." Finding ways to relate the content of the Church's dogmas to everyday life can be
challenging for today's preachers and teachers. Some people find the task so daunting that they leave dogma out. As a result, they wind up presenting something other than the
Church's faith and speak in their own name, offering perhaps unwittingly merely their own, subjective ideas, rather than the Word of God. In Dogma and Preaching, the theologian
and priest Joseph Ratzinger provides (1) a theory of preaching for today; (2) application of this theory to some themes for preaching drawn from the Church's dogmas; (3) meditations
and sermons based on the liturgical year and the communion of saints; and (4) some thoughts regarding the decade after the Second Vatican and Christianity's seeming irrelevance.
Ratzinger insists that sound preaching should rest on three pillars... Read more!
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