Assessing The Rings of Power at the end of season 1
By Steven D. Greydanus on Oct 20, 2022 10:09 pm“There are powers beyond darkness at work in this world. Perhaps on days like this, we have little choice but to trust to their designs and surrender our own.” So says Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) in [...]
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Two pieces of pending legislation highlight the division over abortion
By Russell Shaw on Oct 20, 2022 09:01 pmA woman I know told me recently how she came to see abortion in a different light: “I was pro-abortion without thinking much about it. I just took it for granted that abortion was okay—women’s [...]
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New study of priesthood should be received as a “wake-up” call
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Oct 20, 2022 01:22 pmThe release of The Catholic Project’s study of priests and the data revealed therein should be welcomed by all Catholics. I must say, however, that data did not surprise me in the least – especially [...]
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Report: Catholic medical school teaching gender-transition therapies
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 20, 2022 01:00 pmnull / Shutterstock Washington D.C., Oct 20, 2022 / 11:00 am (CNA). Medical students at Georgetown University have been taught that the only way to help patients suffering from gender dysphoria is to “fix” their bodies through drug therapies an... [...]
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Walking with Generation Z: How to Dialogue with Gen Z
By Benjamin Eriksen on Oct 20, 2022 12:17 amSeveral years ago, I was walking through the streets of Ann Arbor with a friend. Robert and I were engrossed in a theological conversation when a young college student approached us. He admitted that he [..]
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Synodality and the perennial temptations of power, pleasure, and wealth
By Nicholas Senz on Oct 19, 2022 07:32 pmIf one looks back on the Synods of Bishops during the pontificate of Pope Francis, and the controversies that have accompanied them, one can notice that even with such disparate themes as the family, youth, [...]
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Opinion: Stronger moral leadership needed at University of Notre Dame
By Susan Ciancio on Oct 19, 2022 05:27 pm“Notre Dame our mother, tender, strong, and true.” Thus begins the Notre Dame Alma Mater. It’s a song that has captured my heart and brought tears to my eyes for over 30 years. The rich [...]
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Vatican: Pro-abortion member of Pontifical Academy for Life contributes to ‘dialogue’
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 19, 2022 04:45 pmArchbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, enjoys a milkshake at Potbelly Sandwich Shop in Philadelphia, March 9, 2015. / Sarah Webb/CatholicPhilly.com. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 19, 2022 / 14:45 pm (CN... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for October 19, 2022
By CWR Staff on Oct 19, 2022 05:00 amIgnatian Spirituality – “After seven years of formation as a Jesuit scholastic, Christopher Lowney discerned — in a way that clearly would have impressed St. Ignatius of Loyola — that religious life was not the [...]
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Why Vatican II Was Necessary
By George Weigel on Oct 19, 2022 03:05 amWriting my new book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Basic Books), afforded me the welcome opportunity to dig into the Council’s 16 texts and the many fine commentaries on them. [...]
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The North American Martyrs and our post-Christian secular culture
By Dr. Christopher Shannon on Oct 18, 2022 11:36 pm“Instead of being a great theologian as you may be in France, you must reckon on being here a humble scholar, and then good God! with what masters—exposed to the laughter of all the savages. [...]
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Pope Francis appoints pro-abortion economist to Pontifical Academy for Life
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 18, 2022 07:15 pmMariana Mazzucato / Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 18, 2022 / 15:00 pm (CNA). One of the newest members of the Pontifical Academy for Life appointed by Pope Francis is an outspoken advocate of abortion right... [...]
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Opinion: Yesterday’s Council of Nicaea and today’s “Synodism”
By Peter D. Beaulieu on Oct 18, 2022 07:11 pmThe year 2025 will be the 80th anniversary of George Orwell’s Animal Farm; the 60th anniversary of Gaudium et Spes; and the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Animal Farm denies who we really [...]
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English town forbids making sign of the cross, using holy water near abortion center
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 18, 2022 12:21 pmThe affected area in Bournemouth. / Google Maps / Screenshot CNA Newsroom, Oct 18, 2022 / 10:21 am (CNA). A council in England has made making the sign of the cross and prayer illegal in public areas around an abortion provider.The Council of B... [...]
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A brief survey of Latin learning resources
By Jerry Salyer on Oct 18, 2022 01:09 amComplaints by people without power, Elizabeth Anscombe once observed, are a waste of time. So rather than protest too long and too loudly about the ongoing liquidation of the Church’s Latin inheritance, laymen might be [...]
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The Mass of Vatican II
By Father Joseph Fessio, S.J. on Oct 17, 2022 09:00 pmEditor’s note: This essay appeared originally in the September/October 2000 issue of Catholic Dossier and is based on a lecture on the liturgy given by Father Fessio in May, 1999. —————- The Constitution on the [...]
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Propaganda and the Ukraine War
By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Oct 16, 2022 09:30 pmThe meaning of propaganda has evolved from simple advertising to promoting biased and misleading information. The art of gleaning facts from various propaganda outlets has become increasingly difficult. Indeed, the mainstream media have mostly become [...]
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