The MAD magazine caricature of U.S. Catholicism
By George Weigel on Jan 04, 2024 12:00 amOne hesitates to begin the civil new year on a critical note, when hopes of a brighter future run high. But when reality is being falsified, duty calls. So, let’s begin the Year of Our [...]
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Leave the world or embrace it?
By James Kalb on Jan 03, 2024 09:36 pmPeople today say social engagement is a basic part of the Christian life. Even so, it is shot through with paradox. Christ was not part of everyday social life. He had no property, no job, [...]
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The state of the Catholic Faith in post-COVID Poland
By Filip Mazurczak on Jan 03, 2024 07:00 pmIn December, the Institute for Catholic Church Statistics published its annual report on the Catholic Church in Poland, the first such yearbook with data obtained after pandemic-era restrictions had been lifted. While the report does [...]
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Cardinal Fernández: Vatican’s same-sex blessings guidance is ‘clear answer’ to German bishops
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 03, 2024 05:20 pmCardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa Rome Newsroom, Jan 3, 2024 / 18:20 pm (CNA). Amid significant confusion about the Vatican’s recent guidance on same-sex blessings, the document’s architect has lashed out at t... [...]
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Italian priest excommunicated for calling Pope Francis a ‘usurper’
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 03, 2024 10:08 amFather Ramon Guidetti has been excommunicated by his local bishop for saying in a homily that Pope Francis “is not the pope” and calling him “a usurper.” / Credit: Screenshot from Radio Domina NostraYouTube channel, Jan. 3, 2024 Rome Newsroom, ... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 3, 2024
By CWR Staff on Jan 03, 2024 02:00 amIndividuals and Couples – “Some defenders of Fiducia Supplicans have suggested that the document intends ‘couple’ to be understood merely as a pair of individuals, without reference to any special relationship between them.” What Is a [...]
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Opinion: The Vatican and Biden administration must put pressure on Ortega
By Anne Hendershott on Jan 02, 2024 06:44 pmWhile the United States Mission to the Organization of American States (OAS) published a resolution in October rejecting the “repressive measures by the Nicaragua Government” against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, its statements have done [...]
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“Think Blade Runner meets the Amish”: A conversation with Peco Gaskovski
By Paul Senz on Jan 02, 2024 04:39 pmSome of the most profound observations and depictions in recent decades about the challenges of modernity, technology, and current affairs have been made through science fiction and dystopian novels, movies, and television shows. Star Trek, [...]
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Conference on anniversary of Benedict’s death focuses on legacy defined by love of Christ
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 02, 2024 10:48 amArchbishop Georg Gänswein celebrates a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 31, 2023, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 2, 2024 / 11:48 am (CNA). Friends, schol... [...]
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Healthcare, justice, and the death of Baby Indi Gregory
By CWR Staff on Jan 01, 2024 08:00 pmPatricia Gooding-Williams, who is Managing Editor of the Daily Compass, a site of news and Catholic commentary that originated in Italy, has been a keen observer of the fight over Baby Indi Gregory, an infant [...]
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Fiducia supplicans: Between a rock and a hard place
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jan 01, 2024 12:08 pmTwo developments—both entirely foreseeable, one so easily avoidable as to be in essence an unforced error—are making the already improbable management of the Fiducia supplicans fiasco almost entirely impossible. The first is the reported influx [...]
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A “biological vessel” used by God? Or the Mother of God, chosen by God?
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 01, 2024 10:00 amReadings: Nm 6:22-27 Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 Gal 4:4-7 Lk 2:16-21 “If anyone believes that holy Mary is not the mother of God (Theotokos), he has no share in the divine inheritance”, wrote the [...]
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The Vatican in 2024: A few prognostications
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jan 01, 2024 04:00 amIt’s hard to say what the next twelve hours will bring on the Church beat, let alone the next twelve months, but there are a few prognostications that are safe bets all the same. One [...]
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10 ways to strengthen and grow a Culture of Life in 2024
By Susan Ciancio on Jan 01, 2024 02:30 amA new year is upon us, and with a new year comes a chance for change. People traditionally make new year’s resolutions to improve themselves. These include things like eating healthier, exercising more, or reading [...]
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My Top 10 movies of 2023
By Nick Olszyk on Dec 31, 2023 08:53 pmThis year, the cinema had many hills and valleys. There was the inevitable collapse of the MCU, the massive success of a blue-collar plumber, the weird obsession with Barbenheimer, and the return of satirical shock [...]
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Four kernels of wisdom from Pope Benedict XVI’s last message to the world
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 31, 2023 05:00 pmPope Benedict XVI on April 21, 2007, in Vigevano, Italy. / Credit: miqu77/Shutterstock Chicago, Ill., Dec 31, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). A brilliant thinker and prolific writer, Pope Benedict XVI wrote 66 books in his lifetime. His final work, “Wha... [...]
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Reflections on 2023 (with help from St. John Henry Newman)
By Christopher R. Altieri on Dec 31, 2023 04:00 amThere’s no mere listing the big news stories of the closing year, 2023. There were too many of them. If one had to pick three story areas, they would be the violent persecution of Christians [...]
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Times Square billboards “Light the World” with the Nativity story
By Kathy Schiffer on Dec 30, 2023 10:03 pmIt was business-as-usual in New York’s Times Square on the evening of November 27, 2023. Bustling crowds hurried home from work or out to their favorite restaurant, or perhaps began their Christmas shopping. Taxis honked, [...]
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Catholicism and Gnosticism in the Work of John Finlay
By James Matthew Wilson on Jan 04, 2024 10:01 pmOne of the more obscure chapters in American literary history is the role Catholicism played in the development of southern letters. Everyone knows of the Georgia fiction writer, Flannery O’Connor, who remains the best-known American [...]
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Opinion: How about a common Christmas for Catholics and the Orthodox?
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jan 04, 2024 07:00 pmVarious Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas on Saturday, January 7. They do so out of calendar literalism: they cling to the Julian Calendar which, because of its imprecision in calculating the length of the earth’s annual [...]
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