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5 days ago | crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series on Catholic culture. I begin with the following proposition. It is one which, among committed Christians certainly, may be taken as a given, as axiomatic. Not a statement of fact, mind you, as in the sum of two plus two will always be four. It is instead a statement of value, the certainty of which is hardly a function of arithmetic. It depends rather on revelation, as in Divine Revelation, the truth of which derives not from man but from God.

6 days ago | crisismagazine.com | Eric Sammons

As I’m sure you’re all aware, we have a new pope: Leo XIV, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A. Although somewhat of a dark horse candidate, before the conclave he was seen as a potential “compromise” choice. However, his election on only the 4th ballot makes it hard to see that being the case; many Cardinals must have had him in mind before the doors were locked. To learn more about our new pope, check out the College of Cardinals Report dossier on him here.

1 week ago | crisismagazine.com | Dwight Longenecker

Now that the papacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio is behind us, it is worth not only assessing his papacy but also the papacy itself. While conservative Catholics criticized Francis’ doctrinal ambiguity, his watered-down moral teaching, and his support for compromised prelates, it is only fair to ask ourselves what his motivations were. I think they can be summed up in his rejection of the mozzetta before his first appearance that evening of March 13, 2013.

1 week ago | crisismagazine.com | Joseph Pearce

Editor’s Note: This is the thirty-seventh in a multi-part series on the unsung heroes of Christendom. In the previous essay in this series, we honored Blessed Otto Neururer, the first priest to be executed by the Nazis. We also acknowledged those better-known victims of the Third Reich’s anti-Christian pogrom, St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein).

1 week ago | crisismagazine.com | Regis Martin

Of all the correspondence compiled by St. Paul documenting salvation through the Event of Jesus Christ—who alone set about redeeming us all because in Adam’s fall we sinned all—the Epistle to the Romans is clearly the lengthiest of them all. It is also the most impressive, easily eclipsing everything else he wrote.