St. Charles Borromeo and the key principles of Catholic reform
By Fr. Charles Fox on Nov 04, 2022 05:00 amThe Catholic Counter-Reformation of the second-half of the sixteenth century had many important protagonists. One of the men who did the most to advance the cause of reform on the practical level was St. Charles [...]
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The fracturing of theology in a polarized Church
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 04, 2022 04:00 amPeter John McGregor is a lecturer in dogmatic theology and spirituality at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, Australia. He and Tracey Rowland—who holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of [...]
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Recognizing and addressing violence across the political spectrum
By Russell Shaw on Nov 03, 2022 06:00 pmA few days ago Americans awoke to the news that a man shouting, “Where’s Nancy?” had staged a hammer attack on the 82-year-old husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Weeks earlier a man [...]
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From ‘real life’: Papal artist unveils painting of Benedict XVI as pope emeritus
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 03, 2022 03:03 pmNatalia Tsarkova works on a portrait of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in her studio in central Rome. / Daniel Ibáñez / CNA Rome Newsroom, Nov 3, 2022 / 07:03 am (CNA). Natalia Tsarkova, official portrait artist to the popes for more than 20 years,... [...]
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Vatican II and the universality of Christ’s saving mission
By Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. on Nov 03, 2022 08:00 amThe distinguishing feature of the doctrine and the pastoral program of the Second Vatican Council is Trinitarian Christocentrism. The Council’s teaching on the nature of Sacred Liturgy, on the mystery of the Church, on the [...]
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Catholic social teaching in a time of dissolution
By James Kalb on Nov 03, 2022 05:00 amCatholic social teaching has to do with building a better world, one in which what is good in us is more fully realized. That’s why it talks about “integral human development.” The goal is evidently [...]
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All Souls Day and the final purification of the elect
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Nov 02, 2022 05:20 amEditor’s note: The following homily was preached on the Commemoration of All Souls, November 2, 2022, at Our Lady of the Atonement Church in San Antonio (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter). Allow me [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for November 2, 2022
By CWR Staff on Nov 02, 2022 05:00 am‘They’ and ‘Them’ – “I was scrolling though Instagram recently when I came across a post from a Christian woman with 165,000 followers explaining how excited she and her husband were to have a ‘transgender’ [...]
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President Biden, Archbishop Paglia, and the mortification of the Church
By George Weigel on Nov 02, 2022 03:10 amNo one who has worked in Washington for more than four decades, as I have, can possibly imagine Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., as one of the sharper knives in the drawer. Even in the retrospect [...]
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Word substitution at the service of moral clarification
By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Nov 02, 2022 02:32 amThe culture has “evolved” (read: degraded) to accept as normal much behavior overtly violating the Ten Commandments. But authentic Church teaching, rooted in the Gospel and all of Scripture, is usually out of step with [...]
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Who Burned the Witches (Part 2)
By Sandra Miesel on Nov 01, 2022 09:50 pmEditor’s note: Part One of this essay was published on October 30, 2022. (Editor’s note: A different version of this article ran in CRISIS magazine in October 2001. Witches Everywhere How many people died in [...]
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Assisted suicide for the mentally ill comes to Canada
By Susan Ciancio on Nov 01, 2022 09:24 pmA disturbing headline about Canadian assisted suicide laws regarding the mentally ill caught my attention recently. As I read the article, the first line chilled me: “Medical assistance in dying (MAID) has been available in [...]
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England’s health service puts brakes on transgender treatments for children
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 01, 2022 06:10 pmNHS National Health Service sign UK. / TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 1, 2022 / 16:10 pm (CNA). England’s National Health Service (NHS) has issued new guidance for the treatment of children with gender dysphoria, warnin... [...]
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Dying and rising In union with Christ: On All Souls Day
By Fr. Charles Fox on Nov 01, 2022 04:54 pmIf you aren’t nerdy enough to read The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and also the appendices to the books, then you aren’t nerdy enough. I’m kidding, of course, but it is true [...]
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“The Bodies of the Saints Rest in Peace”
By Father Seán Connolly on Nov 01, 2022 12:00 amThe Feast of All Saints has its origins in the annual celebration in Rome of the transformation of the Pantheon, the famous temple dedicated to “all gods”, into a basilica dedicated to the Holy Virgin [...]
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Opinion: Catholics must keep fighting Biden’s “single-minded extremism” on abortion
By Kathy Schiffer on Oct 31, 2022 03:37 pmThere is a common misconception – among the secular community, but also among some Christians – that the Church should not speak on politics, and should not try to “impose” its views on anyone. To [...]
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