Grumpy priests and Saint Thomas Becket
By Dawn Beutner on Dec 29, 2023 03:00 amWe Catholics tend to have unrealistic expectations about our priests. We want every one of them to deliver brilliant, engaging homilies just like Venerable Fulton Sheen, possess the spiritual depth of Saint Thomas Aquinas, be [...]
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Joseph Ratzinger, Alexander Schmemann, and the eschatological person
By Carl E. Olson on Dec 28, 2023 08:00 pmAndrew Kaethler is Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Theology at Catholic Pacific College at Trinity Western University. While working on a Ph.D. in systematic theology at the University of St Andrews, he and his [...]
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Beowulf and the thumos of Catholic manhood
By Julian Kwasniewski on Dec 28, 2023 05:21 pmOver the past few weeks I’ve delved into the treasure halls of Peter Ramey’s new translation of an ancient epic, Beowulf. As I wade through the “word hoard,” I find myself immersed in a world [...]
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Experiencing the Hamas conflict from within Israel: An interview with Channah Bardan
By Monica Seeley on Dec 27, 2023 10:21 pm6:29 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 7. Across Israel, families were sleeping in. This Shabbat marked the final day of the high holy days. Thirty days of prayer, fasting and traditions had culminated in Friday’s joyous night [...]
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Christian villages in Nigeria reeling after Christmas attacks leave nearly 200 dead
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 27, 2023 05:41 pmThis image made from an AFPTV video taken in the Nigerian village of Maiyanga on Dec. 27, 2023, shows families burying in a mass grave their relatives killed in deadly attacks conducted by armed groups in central Plateau State. The death toll fr... [...]
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What now for Fiducia supplicans?
By Christopher R. Altieri on Dec 27, 2023 05:34 pmThis whole business is bad, from top to bottom. Whether Fiducia supplicans was intended as a sop to Germans hell-bent on synodalizing the Catholic Church’s understanding of sexual morality, or as part of the larger [..]
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Vatican to publish private homilies of Pope Benedict XVI
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 27, 2023 12:00 pmPope Benedict XVI. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Dec 27, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). The Vatican will publish the previously uncirculated “private” homilies of the late Pope Benedict XVI in the coming year, the Holy See has announced. The ... [...]
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Blessed Odoardo Focherini and holy dads
By Dawn Beutner on Dec 27, 2023 04:30 amOdoardo Focherini was a dad. Since June 15, 2013, the Catholic Church has called him Blessed Odoardo Focherini. What does it take for a husband and a father to earn the title of blessed? The [...]
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Praying for our country with John Carroll
By George Weigel on Dec 27, 2023 04:00 amJohn Carroll (1735-1815) was the first Catholic bishop, not just in, but of the United States, for during the first 18 years of his episcopate, his Diocese of Baltimore encompassed the entire country. Carroll was [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, December 27, 2023
By CWR Staff on Dec 27, 2023 03:00 amThe self-loathing ivory tower – “Age-old antisemitism is a very real but subordinate phenomenon. What comes first is Western self-loathing, the obscene conviction that the Western world, and it alone, is the source of colonialism, [...]
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Anthony Fauci and lukewarm Catholicism
By Matthew Becklo on Dec 26, 2023 06:29 pmIn a recent BBC interview, Anthony Fauci reflects on his own “complicated” relationship with the Catholic Church. Fauci and the reporter are strolling the corridors of his new place of work, the Jesuit-run Georgetown University—where [...]
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New Yorkers will vote on making abortion an ‘equal right’ in state’s constitution
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 26, 2023 11:00 amnull / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 26, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). New Yorkers will be voting next November on a proposal to enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution.The vote comes as a wave of states attempt to expand abortion... [...]
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Reflecting on the feasts “between”
By Russell Shaw on Dec 26, 2023 04:30 amHave you ever wondered about those weekday feasts between Christmas and New Year’s Day? They include two martyrs—St. Stephen and St.Thomas a Becket—as well as the Holy Infants, who lost their lives to Herod’s vicious [...]
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St. Stephen’s radiant and sacrificial love
By Stephen G. Adubato on Dec 26, 2023 03:00 amIn 1944, the then-22-year-old Father Luigi Giussani gave a homily on the Feast of Saint Stephen , expounding on his theology of Christian charity, which he would later flesh out in his numerous theological works. [...]
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