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Rich and Strange Evangelization

Leah Libresco Sargeant

November 4, 2025

Picking a fight with the Church as I understood it gave me the chance to understand the Church as she actually is. 

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St. Paul’s Truth-Telling About the Resurrection

Fr. Mike Johns

November 3, 2025

Paul is a model for preachers and evangelists today, who, like him, can bring forth the healing and purifying light of the resurrection.

‘The Newman Touch’: A Vision for the Laity from the Newest Doctor of the Church

Brenden Thompson

November 1, 2025

The Newman Touch is about the laity growing in personal influence and formation. It is an inoculation for believers against the spirit of liberalism of religion.

The Doctor of the Church and the Maker of Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Newman Connections

Dr. Holly Ordway

November 1, 2025

Newman and Tolkien have a significant presence and growing importance in our own day, and their influence extends beyond their coreligionists.  

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Remembering the Unbaptized Christian Children: All Saints Day … or All Souls Day?

Dr. Kody W. Cooper

October 31, 2025

And yet it is possible for the very young, who have not been baptized and lack personal acts of merit or demerit, to be counted among the saints, for the…

The Disenchantment Dilemma for Today’s Culture

Dr. Richard Clements

October 30, 2025

Our desires are infinite because they are, at their deepest level, a desire for the infinite good, who is God. Nothing less than God will satisfy us.

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A Tragedy of Polarization: What Faith Teaches in the Age of Division

Sebastian Barros

October 29, 2025

While there are cases where a theologian has a duty to remain silent, there is also a duty to express one’s criticism of a magisterial text.

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A Remedy to Misconceptions: Newman’s ‘The Idea of a University’

Dan Kaiser

October 29, 2025

St. John Henry Newman’s vision is a balm for the anxious and disoriented student of today, a vision of education animated by love.

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Victorian Horror and the Search for Truth

Emily Erwin

October 28, 2025

When our reality feels like fiction, and our fiction feels insane, these words are a welcome reminder that the truth, the way, and the life is with us in every…

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When Poetry Is Vanquished By Science

Mark Bradford

October 27, 2025

Screening out potentially “defective” children devalues all our lives and warps our cultural sense with the illusion that we can play God.

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A Remedy to Misconceptions: Newman’s ‘The Idea of a University’
ARTICLE V — By Dan Kaiser

St. John Henry Newman’s vision is a balm for the anxious and disoriented student of today, a vision of education animated by love.

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Evangelization & Culture Journal Highlight
The Lost Highway to Damascus
Joe Pug

I am unsure whether God ever came to speak to me during those years because I had surrounded myself with such a wall of noise. Any pangs of conscience not drowned out in the noise I outran with constant motion. The voice did not return immediately. But when it finally did, I would not mistake it again.

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‘The Newman Touch’: A Vision for the Laity from the Newest Doctor of the Church
Brenden Thompson

England’s most famous convert is to be received by all Catholics around the world as the thirty-eighth Doctor of the Church. St. John Henry Newman, beatified by Benedict XVI, canonized by Francis, is now given this new honor by Pope Leo XIV; with it, Newman is offered as a universal guide for the ages. Newman is being offered to us for this moment as well.

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