Christopher White

1 week ago | theconversation.com | Christopher White

The history of the dead – or, more precisely, the history of the living’s fascination with the dead – is an intriguing one. As a researcher of the supernatural, I’m often pulled aside at conferences or at the school gate, and told in furtive whispers about people’s encounters with the dead. The dead haunt our imagination in a number of different forms, whether as “cold spots”, or the walking dead popularised in zombie franchises such as 28 Days Later.

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Christopher White

Harvard Lets You Take 133 Free Online Courses: Explore Courses on Justice, American Government, Literature, Religion, CompSci & MoreIn South Korea, where I live, there may be no brand as respected as Habodeu. Children dream of it; adults seemingly do anything to play up their own …

4 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Christopher White |Michael Sean Winters |Michael Aromolaran

Pilgrims and tourists stop at a cafe on Via della Conciliazione near St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica Aug. 15, 2023. The broad avenue is lined with many Vatican-owned buildings either used for Vatican offices and residences or rented out to earn money. (CNS/Lola Gomez) Not long after I arrived in town as the National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent, I attended a farewell dinner for a Roman Curia official who had served here for almost a decade.

4 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Michael Aromolaran |Christopher White

Catholic Fundamentalism in America, the new book by Jesuit Fr. Mark Massa, provides a much-needed framing of developments within the Catholic Church in the United States. I began my review of this book on Wednesday by examining the five characteristics of fundamentalism that Massa found in the famous "Boston Heresy case" and that he argues are found in subsequent iterations of Catholic fundamentalism. Today, we'll conclude the review by looking at some of those subsequent iterations.

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Michael Aromolaran |Christopher White

Leo XIV, the first pope born in the United States, is also claimed by the Peruvian people whom he served for over two decades as one of their own. Then known as Robert Francis Prevost, he lived and worked in the cities of Trujillo and Chiclayo in northern Peru. In Chiclayo he served as bishop from 2015-2023. Trujillo is a few hours south of Chiclayo, where the pope lived for a decade.