Does Vos estis need a tune-up?
By Nicholas Senz on Feb 11, 2022 03:34 amRecently the National Catholic Reporter published an article by Bishop Oscar Cantu of San Jose. Bishop Cantu discussed how his initial misgivings about synodality were assuaged by a Latin American ecclesial assembly he had attended [...]
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Archdiocese of Chicago shifts course on school mask mandate
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 10, 2022 05:41 pmnull / Halfpoint Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 10, 2022 / 15:41 pm (CNA). Catholic schools across much of the Archdiocese of Chicago can now make masks optional, according to an abrupt shift in the archdiocese’s COVID-19 policy.Citing a “drama... [...]
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James Webb Telescope and seeing with the eyes of faith
By Russell Shaw on Feb 10, 2022 05:21 pmThe question had been rattling around at the back of my mind for some time, and now I thought I had a chance of getting it answered. I was chatting with a man who had [...]
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French abuse report authors respond to critics who challenged 330,000 victims estimate
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 10, 2022 09:00 amJean-Marc Sauvé. / Screenshot from CIASE Facebook page. Paris, France, Feb 10, 2022 / 07:00 am (CNA). The authors of a landmark abuse report responded this week to critics who argued that they overestimated the number of victims in the French C... [...]
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St. Scholastica and her spiritual daughters
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 10, 2022 03:41 amEditor’s note: Homily preached on the memorial of St. Scholastica, February 10, 2022, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan. Today the Church of the West celebrates the birth to heavenly glory of St. [...]
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Relying on the mysterious gift of the Holy Spirit
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Feb 10, 2022 03:05 amJesus makes a startling statement at the Last Supper: “It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I [...]
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Martyrs of Communism: Blessed Aloysius Stepinac
By Dawn Beutner on Feb 09, 2022 08:30 pmWhen Aloysius Stepinac was brought into court on September 30, 1946, everyone knew it was a mere show trial. Granted, there were many well-deserved trials of suspected war criminals after World War II. Granted, some [...]
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The Democratic City and the tendency to thoughtlessness
By Brian Jones on Feb 09, 2022 07:36 pmThe COVID-19 pandemic and the destructive mitigation responses to it have certainly placed a heavy existential weight on democratic citizens. The social, political, and economic chaos of the past two years is profoundly disorienting. In [...]
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Undercutting Vatican II to defend Vatican II?
By George Weigel on Feb 09, 2022 03:03 amArchbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, recently sent the world’s bishops instructions regulating local usage of the Traditional Latin Mass. Those instructions were intended to implement Pope Francis’s 2021 motu [...]
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Extra, extra! News and tidings, February 8, 2022
By CWR Staff on Feb 08, 2022 08:31 pm• The 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki: The air was electric with a holy silence, all Nagasaki dumb with grief, as the parade of martyrs marched past toward the hilltop where their crosses waited. The Galleon, [...]
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Opinion: The two commandments of tyranny
By Noelle Mering on Feb 08, 2022 04:33 pmWhile away recently for a speaking engagement, I sat down to dinner in a parish hall in the time between Mass and my talk. I chatted affably with a couple at our table until the [...]
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Full text: Benedict XVI’s advisers analyze Munich abuse report
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 08, 2022 07:35 amThe Frauenkirche, the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. / Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0 de). Vatican City, Feb 8, 2022 / 05:35 am (CNA). The following is the full text of an analysis published by the... [...]
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The German Church and the dissolution of the one-flesh unity
By Monica Migliorino Miller on Feb 07, 2022 05:01 pm“The whole world woke up astonished to find itself Arian.” So lamented the fourth-century Church Father St. Jerome on just how fast a Christological heresy originating in Alexandra, Egypt spread within the Church with the [...]
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German ‘Synodal Way’ meeting ends with call for same-sex blessings, change to Catechism on homosexuality
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 07, 2022 02:00 pmThe third Synodal Assembly of the ‘Synodal Way’ in Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 4, 2022. / Max von Lachner/Synodal Way. Frankfurt, Germany, Feb 7, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA). A plenary meeting of the German Catholic Church’s “Synodal Way” ended on Sa... [...]
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In praise of duty and dishwashing
By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Feb 07, 2022 01:52 pmHow many of us expect to mark seventy years on the job? How many of us would like to spend seven decades in the same job? Even if we find much of our work interesting, [...]
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Human rights activist: Diplomatic relations between Vatican and China would be ‘totally unacceptable’
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 07, 2022 06:40 amBritish human rights campaigner Benedict Rogers / Courtesy photo London, England, Feb 7, 2022 / 04:40 am (CNA). A British human rights activist said on Sunday that it would be “totally unacceptable” for the Vatican to establish formal diplomati... [...]
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Why the Agrarian critique of American culture rings true today
By Jerry Salyer on Feb 06, 2022 08:33 pmWith the American political scene having clearly devolved into dysfunctionality, those of us seeking a constructive response are bound to reconsider first principles, examine alternative viewpoints, and delve into unexplored avenues of the American tradition. [...]
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Returning to Joseph Ratzinger’s timeless What It Means to Be a Christian
By Conor Dugan on Feb 05, 2022 08:18 pmIt is all here: The understanding of the radical eruption of God in the world through the Incarnation. The necessity of faith to purify reason and that we have a reasoned faith. The recognition of [...]
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Saint Agatha, virginity, and martyrdom
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 05, 2022 09:00 amA reflection in two unequal parts. First, the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council called for the updating of the General Calendar of the Roman Rite. Calendars have to be scrutinized from time to time. [...]
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We are called to be fishers of men
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 05, 2022 05:15 amReadings: Is 6:1-2a, 3-8 Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8 1 Cor 15:1-11 or 15:3-8 Lk 5:1-11 God initiates. Man responds. Jesus calls. Man answers. Such is the dynamic relationship at the heart of salvation history [...]
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Major archbishop: Church offers hope amid ‘very dangerous escalation’ in Ukraine crisis
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 04, 2022 04:00 pmHis Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk. / ACI Group Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 4, 2022 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said on Friday that the Church is offering hope to the country’s beleaguered population amid a “very d... [...]
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