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Articles

Tolkien’s Faith

1 day ago | catholiceducation.org | Dwight Longenecker |John Cuddeback |George Weigel

The interminable Tolkien industry has churned out blockbuster feature films, television series, commentaries, critiques, essays and analysis. Numerous biographies have dissected his life, his friendship with C.S. Lewis, and his continuing legacy. The influence of Tolkien’s Catholic faith on his great saga has been observed and analyzed, but no single volume has used Tolkien’s Catholic faith as the sole lens through which to view his life.
Questioning to Eternity

3 days ago | catholiceducation.org | John Cuddeback |George Weigel

Dante in the Underworld by George Augustus Wallis. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When I was 24, I was asked at the last minute to substitute teach a religious education class at another parish. I was not given a topic or syllabus, so I racked my brain for something compelling for this sixth-grade class. Then, eureka: I taught about Hell. The students seemed like the typical religious education crowd: unchurched and uninterested. Yet as soon as I mentioned Hell, ears and hands shot up.
Record number of adult baptisms in France shows surge among youth

3 days ago | catholiceducation.org | AC Wimmer |John Cuddeback |George Weigel

France’s Catholic Church will welcome more than 10,384 adult catechumens at Easter this year, marking a 45% increase from 2024 figures, according to data released by the French Bishops’ Conference. The French report reveals the highest numbers ever recorded since the survey began over 20 years ago. Even more striking is the demographic shift — young adults now constitute the largest segment of converts.
Joseph and Discovering a Deeper Work

Nov 8, 2024 | catholiceducation.org | John Cuddeback |Msgr. Charles Fink |Theodore Dalrymple |Jeff Mirus

Childhood of Christ by Gerard van Honthorst, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. This gives an opportunity to take a more careful look at how we conceive the point or goal of our daily labors. In his Parochial and Plain Sermons John Henry Newman made a dramatic assertion, which could change our whole approach to work:The time for reaping what we have sown is hereafter, not here; here there is no great visible fruit in any one man’s lifetime.
Joseph and Discovering a Deeper Work, by John Cuddeback

Oct 30, 2024 | brownpelicanla.com | John Cuddeback

This gives an opportunity to take a more careful look at how we conceive the point or goal of our daily labors. In his Parochial and Plain Sermons John Henry Newman made a dramatic assertion, which could change our whole approach to work:The time for reaping what we have sown is hereafter, not here; here there is no great visible fruit in any one man’s lifetime. My first response to this was skepticism; surely this is exaggeration! Then I kept thinking about it. I thought of Joseph of Nazareth.
To Combat Summer Boredom, Try Some ‘Ordinary’ Family Activities

Jul 23, 2024 | ifstudies.org | John Cuddeback

Come mid-July, even enthusiastic and committed parents can struggle to find constructive things to do with their children on vacation from school—especially activities that do not involve screens. This is, of course, part of a larger challenge of so many forces that are pulling us away from really being together at home. Often a good approach is turning to the ordinary, the tried and true activities that perhaps we’ve gotten away from. One of these is reading aloud together.
Candles & Candlemas

Jan 30, 2024 | adoremus.org | Christopher Carstens |John Cuddeback

Candles are a bit like angels: The secular world seems to have acquired a taste for them as the Church seems to be going in the opposite direction. Admittedly, the analogy limps: Candles haven’t been eclipsed in churches the way talk of angels (good and, especially, bad) has. Think of the proliferation of candles in homes, both scented (perhaps another reminder that people like “smells and bells”) and unscented.
Mass Illuminated: Insights on the Mass from the Christmas Liturgy

Dec 25, 2023 | adoremus.org | Christopher Carstens |John Cuddeback

In this episode of the He Leadeth Me podcast, Adoremus Bulletin Editor, Christopher Carstens, joins the podcast to talk about how the Christmas liturgy demonstrates three fundamental truths for praying the Mass throughout the year. Jess and Chris discuss:• The Word became flesh: how the Word of the Father features prominently at Mass• “Mary reflected on these things in her heart”- The Greek word for reflecting means “put together”.
Digital Practice as Liturgy

Oct 13, 2023 | adoremus.org | John Cuddeback

“Hey you, stop underestimating the power of your bodily routines.” Thus says Felicia Wu Song in reflecting on the significance of our digital practices. She even suggests we consider these practices as a kind of ‘liturgy,’ an embodied common practice that both expresses and forms who we are.
A Father's Authority: Love in Action

Jun 14, 2023 | ifstudies.org | John Cuddeback

Sociologist Christopher Lasch once wrote, “Socialization makes the individual want to do what he has to do; the family is the agency to which society entrusts this complex and delicate task.” Complex and delicate indeed. But then again, it is no more complex than the reality of parental authority, the archetype of human authority. Authority names a power to give direction to another person precisely because of a responsibility to care for that person. Authority is an agency of love.