Meet St. Irenaeus of Lyon, Doctor of the Church
By Dawn Beutner on Jun 28, 2024 03:00 amWhen Pope Francis surprised the Catholic world on October 7, 2021, announcing that he was about to make Saint Irenaeus of Lyon a Doctor of the Church, the reasons he gave weren’t that surprising. After [...]
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The Catholic antidote to our environmental ailments
By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. on Jun 27, 2024 09:52 pmFrom the perspective of an outside observer, it might appear that being a citizen of planet Earth involves a highly peculiar core requirement. Judging by our politics, news, and social media accounts, it would seem [...]
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Proposed CA bill would severely undermine parental rights, authority
By Charles J. Russo on Jun 27, 2024 08:45 pmIn September 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 107 into law, making California a sanctuary state offering shelter to transgender children and their parents who leave jurisdictions restricting access to gender-affirming care to minors. The state senate has now approved [...]
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The opportunity of summer: Build and repair relationships
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jun 27, 2024 11:00 am“Dad, I’m sorry I haven’t been in better touch.” We were sitting on the porch late at night, two blocks from the beach, with the waves and sounds of the boardwalk within earshot. “I know [...]
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Son of converts, baptized by Fulton Sheen: An interview with Bishop John Barres
By Jim Graves on Jun 27, 2024 01:04 amBishop John Barres, 63, has served as Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York (Long Island) since January 2017. He was born in the New York City suburb of Larchmont in 1960; his parents were former [...]
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Biden administration pressured health care association to back sex changes for minors
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 26, 2024 05:30 pmRachel Levine, then a nominee for assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies before her confirmation hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2021. / Credit: Carolin... [...]
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Popular broadcaster Mike Rowe extols virtue of patriotism in new film
By Kathy Schiffer on Jun 26, 2024 02:00 pmAmerican heroes come in all shapes and sizes: A President who disregards the advice of his attorney general to rescue captive military forces. A fourteen-year-old youth who forges his mother’s signature to join the military [...]
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Rupture by stealth?
By George Weigel on Jun 26, 2024 04:00 amAccording to a source well-positioned to know, one of the behind-the-scenes dramas of the present pontificate involved Pope Francis’s determination to amend the Catechism of the Catholic Church and declare capital punishment an intrinsically evil act: [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, June 26, 2024
By CWR Staff on Jun 26, 2024 03:00 amDignitas Infinita – “The large number of citations indicates the Vatican’s desire to buttress its teaching with insights from thinkers both within and without the Church.” Vatican II and Dignitas Infinita (First Things) The Conservative [...]
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China’s green facade and its grim, red reality for Cambodia
By David Pinault on Jun 25, 2024 10:24 pmCommunist China wants you to believe it cares about the environment. Look at us, says Beijing: we make EVs and solar panels. We produce cuddly pandas. We’re going green! Try telling that to the people [...]
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“He who keeps silent is to be taken as consenting…”
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jun 25, 2024 03:00 am“Who am I to judge the Rupnik stories?” Pope Francis’s Communicator-in-Chief, Dr. Paolo Ruffini, asked that rhetorical question on Friday in an Atlanta, GA hotel ballroom, in front of journalists, one of whom—Colleen Dulle of [...]
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Wisdom from a prime minister of China who became a Benedictine monk
By Jerry Salyer on Jun 24, 2024 04:41 pm“The ordinance of heaven is termed the natural law; the principle which directs us to conform our actions to the natural law is called the rule of moral conduct; or the right path; the organized [...]
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Ruffini’s disastrous Friday points to wider, deeper problems in the Vatican
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jun 23, 2024 08:18 pmThe Vatican communications chief, Dr. Paolo Ruffini, faces mounting criticism from voices across the spectrum of opinion in the Church after he defended—on Friday, at the premier Catholic media event of the year in the [...]
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The challenge and goals of independent Catholic filmmaking
By S. Kirk Pierzchala on Jun 23, 2024 07:38 pmThere are high levels of dissatisfaction with mainstream entertainment these days. Consumers and pundits alike are calling for fresh, independent, and moral voices. Thankfully, a few new studios are answering that call. However, as I’ve [...]
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How principals and Partnership Schools are keeping historic inner-city Catholic schools alive
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 23, 2024 02:00 pmArchbishop Lyke students in the school library in 2022. / Credit: Leila Sutton/Partnership Schools CNA Staff, Jun 23, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). When historic Catholic schools started closing across the nation, an organization that manages Catholic... [...]
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“Be not afraid!”
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jun 23, 2024 03:00 amGrowing up at the Jersey Shore, I have always felt a particular affinity for the many passages in the New Testament that talk about lakes, rivers, seas, and boats; I suspect you many Floridians would [...]
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Head of Vatican communications strongly defends continued use of Rupnik art
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jun 22, 2024 06:14 pmThe Vatican’s chief comms officer on Friday defended his department’s use of an accused serial rapist’s art. “We’re not talking about abuse of minors,” said Dr. Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication of [...]
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Death, disease, demons, and the deep
By Carl E. Olson on Jun 22, 2024 03:00 amReadings: • Ez 2:2-5 • Psa 123:1-2, 2, 3-4 • 2 Cor 12:7-10 • Mk 4:35-41 Death, disease, demons, and the deep. What do they have in common? Yes, they all begin with the same [..]
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Why so much ado about the Ten Commandments?
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jun 22, 2024 12:41 amGovernor Jeff Landry’s signing of the law requiring Louisiana public school classrooms to display the text of the Ten Commandments once again brings together a volatile combination: religion and schools. It’s already generating a collective [...]
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