From the Messianic Movement to Catholicism: An interview with Matthew Wiseman
By Paul Senz on Oct 24, 2024 04:00 amIn recent years, there has been a wider recognition and appreciation of the Jewish roots of the Catholic faith. Scholars and other authors have written numerous books and articles exploring this topic: Brant Pitre (Jesus [...]
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Hurricane Helene: Subsidiarity and Solidarity in Action
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Oct 24, 2024 03:00 amWinds of about 30 miles an hour, I read, checking the weather the evening of September 26th. The next morning, after a calm hour of prayer, my wife and I watched something very different transpire: [...]
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European policies on surrogacy increasingly reflect Catholic teachings
By Anne Hendershott on Oct 23, 2024 04:19 pmEditor’s Note: This article contains stories with sexually disordered and disturbing details. Reader’s discretion is advised. —— Italy’s Senate passed a law last week making it illegal for Italian couples to go abroad to have [...]
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Meditation on a Roman pizza
By George Weigel on Oct 23, 2024 04:00 amROME–Pizza in the Eternal City tends to exemplify a proposition I have long defended: what crossed the Atlantic going west was usually improved in the process. I like Roman pizza, as I like Rome, but [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, October 23, 2024
By CWR Staff on Oct 23, 2024 03:00 amSpiritual Disunity – “It was clear to Dawson that if religion was the dynamic element in culture, the advance of secularization logically amounted to the devitalization of culture.” “A Vision to Regain. Reconsidering Christopher Dawson” [...]
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New book details the silencing of a brilliant, outspoken Jesuit
By Sean Salai on Oct 22, 2024 04:33 pmJesuit leaders asked the late Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J., to either stop defending Catholic teachings on hot-button social issues or leave their religious order. A candid new book shows he chose to obey, but with [...]
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Recovering the “both/and” of St. Pope John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor
By Matthew Becklo on Oct 22, 2024 10:10 amThe Church, in various periods of her history, has had to deal with the scourge of moral rigorism—a distorted emphasis on upright behavior. The prototypical rigorist movement, certainly in the modern era, was Jansenism, a [...]
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JD Vance at Wisconsin faith rally says Catholics ‘feel abandoned’ by Biden, Harris
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 21, 2024 10:00 pmRepublican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance listens as Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. / Credit: Anna... [...]
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Persecution of 10 Catholic bishops in China intensified after Vatican-China deal, report says
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 21, 2024 03:30 pmCardinal Joseph Zen arrives at a court for his trial in Hong Kong on Sept. 26, 2022. / Credit: PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 21, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). A new report sheds light on the repression faced by 10 Catholic bishops... [...]
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In defense of Saint Ursula and other scandalous saints
By Dawn Beutner on Oct 21, 2024 03:00 amWhen we refer to someone’s life as “scandalous,” we usually mean that the person has done something shocking, immoral, or illegal. Our daily news is filled with scandalous stories of individuals who have been caught [...]
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In defense of the synodal critics
By Larry Chapp on Oct 20, 2024 11:50 pmThe senior writer at Commonweal magazine, Paul Baumann, has penned a thoughtful essay, titled “Pope Francis & Augustine”, on the current acrimonious debates between various ecclesial factions on the topic of the papacy of Pope [...]
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Cardinal Fernández promises follow-up meeting after controversial absence
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 20, 2024 02:30 pmCardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks during a press conference about a new Vatican document on human dignity on April 8, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 20, 2024 / ... [...]
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No Cross, no Kingdom. Know the Cross, know the Kingdom.
By Carl E. Olson on Oct 20, 2024 12:00 amReadings: • Isa 53:10-11 • Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 • Heb 4:14-16 • Mk 10:35-45 “No pain, no gain.” The well-known saying became popular among exercise enthusiasts in the 1980s. It was a motto [...]
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Synod, Zen and sinicization: Vatican’s China deal sparks tensions
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 19, 2024 08:05 pmThe Catholic Church of the Saviour also called Xishiku Church or Beitang in Xicheng District, Beijing, China. / Credit: Fotokon, Shutterstock. CNA Newsroom, Oct 19, 2024 / 11:05 am (CNA). Two prominent Catholics — Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Ko... [...]
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The weaknesses and flaws in Bishop Schneider’s Credo: A traditionalist’s review
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman on Oct 19, 2024 06:30 pmBishop Athanasius Schneider’s recent catechism Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith, published in late 2023 by Sophia Institute Press, has been hailed by high prelates and famous theologians as a much-needed clarification of Catholic teaching in [...]
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To Murder a Priest: Remembering Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Oct 19, 2024 03:00 amForty years have passed since October 19, 1984, when Polish priest and Solidarity chaplain Jerzy Popiełuszko was kidnapped and murdered by agents of the Communist secret police in Poland. The then-37-year-old priest was abducted from [...]
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Ecclesiology Today
By Tracey Rowland on Oct 18, 2024 05:43 pmThe Cambridge historian Richard Rex has noted that the first great crisis in Christianity was over the nature of the Trinity, especially over the nature of Christ, hence the early Christological heresies. The second great [...]
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Analysis: Is the Synod on Synodality’s focus on the local Churches a Trojan horse?
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on Oct 18, 2024 04:15 pmPope Francis meets with other delegates of the Synod on Synodality at a roundtable discussion in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Oct. 17, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 18, 2024 / 15:15 pm (CNA). Is there more than meets the eye... [...]
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