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What the Imagination Knows

What the Imagination Knows At the close of his best-selhng travel book, The Great Ratlway Bazaar (1975), Paul Theroux reflects that “… the difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy….” In emphasizing recording and discovenng, in makIng […]

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem visits Catholic parish in Gaza Strip

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, entered Gaza on Thursday and reached the parish of the Holy Family for a pastoral visit. Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza, attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 Israelis and taking over 200 more as hostages. Since that time, Israel has launched a war against […]

Vatican publishes new norms to discern alleged supernatural phenomena

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican has published new norms for the church to discern alleged supernatural phenomena, such as Marian apparitions and mystical visions, which streamline the discernment process for bishops, allow the Vatican to avoid making definitive judgments on the authenticity of the events and reaffirm that Catholics are not obliged to believe […]

Fatima and Apparitions: Francis Releases His New Document On Prophecy

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Liberal Catholicism, Beyond the Caricatures

Liberal Catholicism, Beyond the Caricatures The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is an often-persuasive critic of cultural, political, and religious liberalism, and I welcome the attention he gives to Catholicism in the pages of the paper of record. That said, his instinctive skepticism toward Pope Francis can be vexing. He often casts Francis as […]