St. Bartholomew: From despair to discipleship and a heavenly destiny
By Fr. Charles Fox on Aug 24, 2022 01:00 pmAs it often does with the events of the Gospels, the streaming series The Chosen adds to the drama of the encounter between Jesus and Nathanael in John 1:45-51 by employing a bit of artistic [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for August 24, 2022
By CWR Staff on Aug 24, 2022 05:00 amShort Histories – Nothing is certain in a country where the past is constantly rewritten, says Owen Matthews. The Russian enigma (The Spectator) Papal Infallibility – “A pope speaks ex cathedra when he presents some teaching [...]
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Wars and choices
By George Weigel on Aug 24, 2022 03:05 amOne of the more irritating tropes of this age in which sloganeering has replaced argumentation is the alleged distinction between “wars of choice” and “wars of necessity.” That distorted and distorting antinomy was first deployed [...]
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Father Martin apologizes for ‘not being clearer’ about Archbishop Weakland’s ‘sins and crimes’
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 23, 2022 09:20 pmFather James Martin, SJ / Kerry Weber via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0) CNA Newsroom, Aug 23, 2022 / 16:30 pm (CNA). Father James Martin, SJ, said he was sorry Tuesday for not having been clearer about the “sins and crimes” of Archbishop Rembert Weakla... [...]
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Beyond Kristin Lavransdatter: Sigrid Undset as convert, intellectual, reader of hearts
By Rachel Hoover on Aug 23, 2022 07:27 pmSigrid Undset (1882-1949) is most famous for her award-winning Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. But she wrote much more than that epic work of historical fiction. Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts, a new biography and study of [...]
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The importance of Schuster’s monumental, multi-volume Sacramentary
By James Baresel on Aug 23, 2022 02:54 pmMost of those debating the changes in Catholic liturgical life since the 1950s base their positions in—or pay lip service to—the principles of the early to mid-twentieth century “Liturgical Movement.” The argument centers on: whether [...]
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Theologian at Academy for Life claims one may dissent from Church teaching on contraception
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 22, 2022 03:50 pm279photo Studio/Shutterstock. Rome Newsroom, Aug 22, 2022 / 11:25 am (CNA). The Pontifical Academy for Life has published an interview with a theologian who says Catholic teaching on contraception is open for “theological discussion, within the... [...]
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What does the Bible really say about Mary, the Mother of the Messiah?
By Paul Senz on Aug 22, 2022 03:10 pmDr. Brant Pitre is Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the study of the New Testament [...]
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Countering disinformation about Critical Race Theory
By Dr. Edward Feser on Aug 22, 2022 09:00 amCritical Race Theory (CRT) has over the last two years been a topic of enormous controversy. But what is it, exactly? Chapter 4 of my book All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism [...]
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Cardinal Becciu ‘reinstated’ by Pope Francis?
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on Aug 22, 2022 07:19 amCardinal Angelo Becciu. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Aug 22, 2022 / 05:19 am (CNA). Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints who resigned from all positions in the context of an all... [...]
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Walking with Generation Z: Distrust of Institutions and Organized Religion
By Benjamin Eriksen on Aug 21, 2022 09:08 pmAmerica’s trust in organized religion has reached another all-time low. In fact, people were more than twice as likely to have a robust confidence in organized religion in the 1970s than they are today. According [...]
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Radical feminism and the roots of the godless “gender paradigm”
By Carl E. Olson on Aug 21, 2022 08:03 pmThree years ago, I interviewed Abigail Favale about her book Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion (Cascade Books, 2018), a work that I described as “a moving, insightful, and vulnerable account of her journey from [...]
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Cardinal Zuppi: Nicaraguan bishop’s arrest ‘a very serious act’
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 20, 2022 07:49 pmBishop Rolando Jose Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa is monitored by police, August 2022. / Photo credit: Diocese of Matagalpa Rome, Italy, Aug 20, 2022 / 17:49 pm (CNA). The arrest of Bishop Rolando Jose Alvarez Lagos of Matagalpa is a "very serious... [...]
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South Carolina Supreme Court halts enforcement of pro-life law after pro-abortion challenge
By Kathy Schiffer on Aug 20, 2022 03:25 pmPro-lifers in South Carolina were jubilant when the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act took effect in their state on June 27, making abortion illegal after six weeks gestation; but their joy was short-lived. [...]
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Saint Pius X and the separation of Church and State
By Jerry Salyer on Aug 20, 2022 12:12 pm“That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error.” – Saint Pius X, Vehementer Nos, 1906 Just over a decade before Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto’s elevation to [...]
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My brief brush with Dorothy Day University
By Peter Wolfgang on Aug 19, 2022 10:59 pmTom Cornell has died. He was born in Bridgeport, served six months in the federal prison in Danbury, was ordained a deacon of the Archdiocese of Hartford, and spent many years serving the poor of
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