A joyful sacrifice: How men can prepare for marriage
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Feb 08, 2024 08:49 pmIn our vocations crisis, we mostly focus on the priesthood and religious life, but a new dimension of this crisis falls fast upon us. Without strong Catholic marriages, the primary source of religious vocations would [...]
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Hypocrisy and same-sex blessings
By Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ on Feb 08, 2024 10:00 amToday I saw the headline, “Pope denounces ‘hypocrisy’ of those who criticise LGBT blessings.” I found that disconcerting, because I have been critical of LGBT blessings. It grieves me to be regarded as a hypocrite [...]
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Does feminism make sense?
By James Kalb on Feb 07, 2024 07:44 pmThe duality of male and female is basic to human life. People find it inscrutable, suggestive, frustrating, necessary, and sublime all at once. That’s why it has given rise to so much great, not-great, and [...]
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Pope Francis: To be ‘scandalized’ by gay couple blessings is ‘hypocrisy’
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 07, 2024 12:00 pmPope Francis greets pilgrims at his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, at the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 7, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis this week again defended the Vatica... [...]
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Tohu wa-bohu on the Tiber
By George Weigel on Feb 07, 2024 04:00 amWithin 24 hours last month, three mainstream Catholic websites ran stories describing Pope Francis’s meeting with the members and consultors of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the following headlines: Pope Francis [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, February 7, 2024
By CWR Staff on Feb 07, 2024 03:00 amVisual Heresy – “Rupnik’s art isn’t ‘medieval’ or Byzantine. It’s not really even based on those forms. In fact, it’s a parody of them.” The eyes of Marko Rupnik: black “soulless” holes? (World of Hilarity) [...]
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Land of the Once and Ever-Rising Son
By David Paul Deavel on Feb 06, 2024 02:09 pmMany people know of the successful 16th-century establishment of the Church in Japan by Catholic missionaries, including St. Francis Xavier, and its repression by imperial authorities and eventual complete suppression of the Church by the [...]
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Revisiting Canada’s collective guilt for mass murders that were never committed
By Anna Farrow on Feb 06, 2024 03:00 amOn May 27, 2021, Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced that ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology had located the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops [...]
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Fiducia Supplicans and the Christian Conscience
By Nina Sophie Heereman on Feb 05, 2024 06:06 pmShortly after the publication of Fiducia Supplicans, a friend asked me how she could reconcile the content of this statement with her conscience. As she is certainly not alone with this question, I have decided [...]
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Exclusive: Lourdes bishop hopes to make decision on Rupnik mosaics by spring
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 05, 2024 05:00 amBishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Lourdes, France, Feb 5, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The bishop of Lourdes says that he has received a “pile of letters” from Catholics all over the world as he considers whet... [...]
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The new Declaration on sacramental matter and form: Context and questions
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Feb 04, 2024 10:02 pmThe latest “Note” from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, titled Gestis verbisque, addresses the issue of using proper form to celebrate the sacraments. It does so within the larger context of a [...]
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Canadian bishops praise those who witness on social media but warn ‘don’t be naive’
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 04, 2024 02:00 pmYoung people use mobile devices in isolation from each other at Willowbrook Mall in Langley, British Columbia. In their pastoral letter on social media, the Canadian bishops suggest fasting from screens once a week and taking a “Technology Sabba... [...]
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Social Media, Tweens, and Teens: Data, Consequences, Solutions
By Sister Renée Mirkes on Feb 03, 2024 06:29 pmHave you been in a classroom, restaurant or airport lately? Have you noticed how everyone’s faces are robotically glued to their glowing screens? Media conglomerates—Meta, X, Google, Snapchat, TikTok—have created a world for our youth [...]
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Jesus Christ’s physical healings “announced a more radical healing”
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 03, 2024 04:00 pmOn the Readings for Sunday, February 4, 2018 [...]
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Surveying the often tense relationship between Christianity and psychoanalysis
By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Feb 03, 2024 02:20 pmIn 2018, I took a sabbatical to write a book (about Christianity after Freud) that I had been carrying around in my head since the 1990s when, about to graduate from high-school, I could not [...]
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Vatican doctrine office releases note on discerning the validity of the sacraments
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 03, 2024 08:21 amnull / Diego Cervo/Shutterstock. Rome Newsroom, Feb 3, 2024 / 09:21 am (CNA). The Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a note on Saturday on discerning the validity of the sacraments.The new document signed b... [...]
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Metropolitan Bourgeoisie
By Andrew Petiprin on Feb 02, 2024 06:40 pmWhit Stillman’s cult classic Metropolitan is an elegy for the haute bourgeoisie, the well-educated upper subdivision of the middle class that once set the cultural tone for liberal Western nations. Released in 1990, Stillman’s film [...]
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Senators press FBI on alleged deletion of files related to Catholic investigation
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 02, 2024 02:00 pmChristopher Wray at his confirmation hearing on July 12, 2017. / Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 2, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). More than a dozen senators are demanding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) com... [...]
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