C.S. Lewis and “Mere Politics”: Some Shrewdly Hellish Political Advice from The Screwtape Letters — By: Crisis Magazine

Each U.S. election year since at least 2016, a piece of sage advice from C.S. Lewis’ celebrated 1942 epistolary novel The Screwtape Letters has resurfaced online, in which the book’s narrator, a Senior Devil in Hell named Screwtape, pens instructions to his equally demonic nephew, a Junior Tempter named Wormwood, upon the general subject of…

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Our Lady of Guadalupe becomes point of contention in Mexican presidential debate — By: Catholic News Agency

Mexico presidential candidates Claudia Sheinbaum (left) and Xóchitl Gálvez speak after the last presidential debate ahead the presidential election at Centro Cultural Tlatelolco on May 19, 2024, in Mexico City, Mexico. / Credit: Medios y Media/Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, May 22, 2024 / 17:03 pm (CNA). Our Lady of Guadalupe took center stage during…

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Archbishop Lori completes court-ordered ‘listening sessions’ with sexual abuse victims — By: Catholic News Agency

“I was deeply moved by their very powerful testimony,” Archbishop William Lori said following a second bankruptcy court-ordered listening session with sexual abuse victims on May 20, 2024. / Credit: Matthew Balan Baltimore, Md., May 22, 2024 / 16:21 pm (CNA). Baltimore Archbishop William Lori has completed the second of two federal bankruptcy court-ordered “listening…

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