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3 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | David G. Bonagura |Carl Olson
Forgiveness proves the Resurrection What is the one thing more outlandish than claiming a crucified criminal rose gloriously from the dead? Answer: Claiming that this man existed for one purpose: the forgiveness of sins. Forgiveness, as doctrine and salutary practice, has been woven so deeply into the psyches of Westerners—believers and secularists alike—that we scarcely realize its absurdity among survival-of-the-fittest species.
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1 month ago | 
us2.campaign-archive.com | Matthew Balan |Susan Ciancio |Ngala Killian Chimtom |David G. Bonagura
Entering Heaven on Earth is a beautiful education in both art and the Faith By Matthew Balan on Mar 28, 2025 03:46 am The famed St. John Cantius parish in Chicago is the founding site of the Catholic Art Institute—a non-profit that aims to promote “the essential need for beauty to elevate our senses and illuminate our souls.” Read in browser » Facts about the danger of Abortion Pill regimen: Planned Parenthood “agrees” By Susan Ciancio on Mar 27, 2025 07:00 pm As its use to kill preborn...
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1 month ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | David G. Bonagura |Carl Olson
Vice president JD Vance speaks at the 2025 March for Life rally on January 24th in Washington, D.C. (Image: Screen shot / YouTube / EWTN)Vice President JD Vance is currently the rock star of the conservative Catholic world. His youth, style, upbringing, conversion, young family, and proximity to President Donald Trump have collided to make him the runaway favorite in a CPAC poll ranking the potential 2028 GOP presidential candidates.
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2 months ago | 
us2.campaign-archive.com | David G. Bonagura |Andrew Petiprin |Ngala Killian Chimtom |George Weigel
Painful consequences prove the “right to privacy” is wrong By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Feb 20, 2025 08:00 pmThe “right to privacy,” invented by the Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut (which was argued in March 1965 and decided in June 1965) is a cleverly woven fig leaf for immorality. It transferred moral Read in browser » Friend of Francis: Pope’s health situation is ‘delicate’ but not cause for alarm By Catholic News Agency on Feb 20, 2025 03:45 pmJesuit Father Antonio Spadaro.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | David G. Bonagura
“If you could travel back in time to witness Jesus’ birth or any event in His life, would you do it?” Two enterprising Catholics posed this question to me during Advent. “Yes” was my unequivocal answer. “Doesn’t that undermine faith?” one replied with a genuine and savvy curiosity.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | David G. Bonagura
By David G Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing, Dec. 9, 2024David G. Bonagura Jr. an adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary and is the 2023-2024 Cardinal Newman Society Fellow for Eucharistic Education. He is the author of Steadfast in Faith: Catholicism and the Challenges of Secularism and Staying with the Catholic Church, and the translator of Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning. The Advent of Christ in the flesh, then, sends us back to the future Advent that we celebrated first.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thecatholicthing.org | David G. Bonagura
Advent curiously proceeds from the future to the past, from the arrival of Christ at the end of time to the arrival of the infant Christ millennia ago at Bethlehem. The bridge joining the two is St. John the Baptist’s message that still applies for us in the present: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 3:2)We hear the Baptist’s charge on the second Sunday of Advent but we rarely dwell on it. Bridges may be pretty to look at, but they are not destinations.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
us2.campaign-archive.com | David G. Bonagura |George Weigel |Carl Olson
Pro-dignity, life-affirming palliative care: An interview with Dr. Natalie King By CWR Staff on Nov 21, 2024 05:28 pmDr. Natalie King, with a medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine, is a Catholic palliative care physician who lives in Utah.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | David G. Bonagura |Carl Olson
St. Perpetua’s PurgatoryThe sensus fidelium, keenly aware that the dead need the help of our prayers, has Purgatory right and the Reformers, departing from Tradition and from the Church, have it wrong. The martyrdom of Perpetua, Felicity (Felicitas), Revocatus, Saturninus and Secundulus, from the "Menologion of Basil II" (c. 1000 AD).
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
thecatholicthing.org | David G. Bonagura
Rummaging through my desk last month, I uncovered a single sheet of white paper. A dozen names were written in black ink. I knew immediately what the sheet was for. Each November, my high school and college almae matres invite their alumni to submit names of deceased loved ones to be remembered at Masses in their chapels. This lost page was my attempt some years ago to list my cloud of witnesses who, for reasons I cannot recall, did not make it to the chapel.
