Shepherds For Sale is both damning and fundamentally inconsistent
By Casey Chalk on Sep 05, 2024 07:48 pmAfter college, I was a member of a small, traditionalist Presbyterian church in my native Northern Virginia. Most everyone was politically conservative, and there were few formally endorsed ministries because, church leadership argued, only ecclesial [...]
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Upcoming SCOTUS cases focus on protection of children
By Russell Shaw on Sep 05, 2024 02:46 pmWhen the Supreme Court opens for business again on October 7, it will have before it for argument and eventual decision in the term ahead at least three cases directly involving the protection of children [...]
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EWTN News/RealClear poll takes pulse of spiritual health of U.S. Catholics
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 05, 2024 12:37 pmnull / Credit: Zolnierek/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 5, 2024 / 13:37 pm (CNA). The findings of a new EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research survey shed light on the spiritual health of adult Catholic U.S. citizens and reveal consi... [...]
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Rome “synodals” while the world burns
By Larry Chapp on Sep 04, 2024 08:37 pmIn March 2013, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gave a short speech to the assembled Cardinals before the conclave wherein he described his vision for a Church that was far less “self-referential”. He instead sought a Church [...]
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Perfect Marriage of Sound and Meaning
By Jane Greer on Sep 04, 2024 03:43 pmThe epigraph in George David Clark’s latest collection, Newly Not Eternal, is Ecclesiastes 3:10-11: “I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time.” The collection [...]
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Witness to Hope, Twenty-Five Years Later
By George Weigel on Sep 04, 2024 04:00 amMy hands were shaky a quarter-century ago as I carried the heavy box from the front door of our house into my study. Inside were my author’s copies of Witness to Hope, the first volume of [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, September 4, 2024
By CWR Staff on Sep 04, 2024 03:00 amBefore Christ – “Catholics have accused the Vatican of betraying Jesus by substituting the term “Before Christ” with ‘Before Common Era’ in official documentation.” Outrage as Vatican drops ‘Before Christ’ for ‘Before Common Era’ (Catholic [...]
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Anti-Catholic discrimination is in season in Fairfield, Connecticut
By Charles J. Russo on Sep 04, 2024 01:01 amA federal trial court has refused to dismiss key claims that leaders in a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus, a national Catholic fraternal service organization, filed against the Town Commission in Fairfield, Connecticut. [...]
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Data and the Traditional Latin Mass
By Stephen Bullivant on Sep 04, 2024 12:13 amRecently rumors have been flying that Pope Francis is preparing to impose stringent restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass. Of course, unfounded rumors out of the Vatican are not new, and some journalists have not been able [...]
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What it’s like to be a Catholic in the world’s largest Muslim country
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 03, 2024 10:00 amThe Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Jakarta, Indonesia / EWTN News Jakarta, Indonesia, Sep 3, 2024 / 06:08 am (CNA). As a Catholic living in the world’s largest Muslim country, Baso Darmawan does not think twice about making... [...]
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The 250-year American experiment in non-sectarian education has failed
By Christopher B. Warner on Sep 02, 2024 08:51 pmGrowing antisemitic tensions on university campuses, the ‘colorblindness’ trap, and elementary school illiteracy are further proof that the 250-year American experiment in publicly funded, non-sectarian education has failed. As Archbishop John Ireland recognized a hundred years ago, there is [...]
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Desiring the right kind of knowledge in the right way
By David Paul Deavel on Sep 02, 2024 07:58 pmSchool is starting, and we need to keep students from curiosity. Curiosity? It sounds bad to modern ears, but ancient and medieval thinkers considered it a vice—a dangerous intellectual habit. You can hear that judgment [...]
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Pope Francis begins historic apostolic journey to Southeast Asia and Oceania
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 02, 2024 07:18 amIndonesian police direct traffic next to billboards displaying a welcome message for Pope Francis in Jakarta on September 2, 2024. / Credit: BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Sep 2, 2024 / 08:18 am (CNA). Pope Francis departed Rome ... [...]
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Fear, trembling, and the “Sunday scaries”
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Sep 01, 2024 09:36 pm“Sunday scaries” refers to the “unique anxiousness that Sunday nights bring.” It’s the awareness—sometimes creeping, sometimes sudden—that another “manic Monday” is imminent. (At this time of year, it’s often accompanied by a related syndrome, the [...]
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In Muslim Indonesia, a Catholic monastery has become part of the community
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 01, 2024 02:00 pmThe Monastery of Gedono receives many guests, both Catholic and Muslim. The sisters have a guesthouse for priests, religious, and laypeople who come for a few days or a week of solitude and prayer. As many as 200 or 300 people attend Sunday Mass... [...]
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Labor unions, the Catholic Church, and postmodern deception
By Father George E. Schultze, SJ on Aug 31, 2024 10:00 pmSixty years ago, high school and college-age students took low-wage jobs at fast-food chains and restaurants as part-time or summer work. Today’s mature workers, often low-income women, have made these and similar jobs full-time, and [...]
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An opportune time to rediscover the gift of Creation
By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. on Aug 31, 2024 03:00 pmYou might be surprised to learn that on September 1, the Catholic Church observes the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Like most Vatican-sponsored “World Day of” celebrations, it seems to me [...]
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The cart of human tradition and the horse of divine Law
By Carl E. Olson on Aug 31, 2024 11:00 amOn the Readings for Sunday, September 1, 2018 [...]
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Opinion: It is a time for choosing
By Patrick Novecosky on Aug 30, 2024 06:33 pmPro-lifers in America have always been homeless, politically speaking. After President Trump’s cryptic assertion last week that his administration “will be great for women and their reproductive rights,” it should come as no surprise that [...]
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The battle for life in ten states this election cycle
By Mary Jo Anderson on Aug 30, 2024 06:15 pmPundits have framed this election as the “end of democracy” or the last chance to “save our republic.” It may be known to historians as the abortion election. Both parties quickly carved out an abortion [...]
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