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Author, former Marine, ponders how faith tempers horror, violence

Sep 25, 2022
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Literary critic shines light on faith’s influence on Catholic writers

Aug 21, 2022
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‘By their deeds’: The problem of evil through the eyes of James Lee Burke

Jul 3, 2022
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Paradoxical priest character enlivens Canadian writer’s fiction

Apr 24, 2022
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Brooklyn ‘state of mind’ infuses writer’s urban fiction

Mar 5, 2022
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Nicholas Sparks not shy about using Catholic influences in romance novels

Jan 16, 2022
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Faith learned young has lingering hold on emerging writer

Nov 20, 2021
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Poet sees renewed appreciation of fine arts as way to deepen devotion

Sep 19, 2021
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Graduate program aims to reverse decline seen in Catholic art, literature

Apr 6, 2021
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Premium article: Nepal’s senior churchman raises climate alarm as death toll tops 1300 in Himalayan disaster

Sep 4
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A golf cart sits near the Colosseum as tourists crowd the surrounding streets in Rome, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, highlighting the growing presence of the vehicles in the capital’s historic center as authorities move to curb an industry blamed by critics for worsening congestion, illegal parking, and overtourism. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Reckoning looms for golf carts that zip through Rome’s crowded historic center

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Lisbon Patriarch Rui Valério and other officials attend the inauguration of a memorial to the 16 people killed in the derailment and crash of Lisbon's Glória funicular, an iconic streetcar, on the first anniversary of the accident, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (Credit: Armando Franca/AP.)

Catholic Patriarch marks year after crash of an iconic Lisbon streetcar

Sep 4
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Opus Dei responds to bishop’s ‘offensive and unfounded accusation’ in dispute over Marian image

Sep 4
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Iglesia del Santuario de Torreciudad. Credit: José Luis Filpo Cabana/Wikimedia.

Spanish bishop renews dispute with Opus Dei over Marian image

Sep 3
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Canadian cardinal wins defamation lawsuit over sexual abuse allegations

Sep 1
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Opus Dei responds to bishop’s ‘offensive and unfounded accusation’ in dispute over Marian image

Sep 4
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Vice President JD Vance speaks at CompoTech headquarters, Monday, August 24, 2026 in Brewer, Maine. (Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Pool Photo via AP.)

Vance talks about the end times and the attempted assassination of Trump in Christian podcast

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Nepal’s senior churchman raises climate alarm as death toll tops 1300 in Himalayan disaster