The power of images in an iconoclast culture
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Nov 15, 2024 04:00 am“You were without hope in the world.” This is how Paul describes the Ephesian Christians before their conversion, stuck in the darkness of sin and paganism. Idols expressed their hope for material security, embodying their [...]
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“We need to know where we are going”: An interview with Bishop Erik Varden
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 14, 2024 05:49 pmBishop Erik Varden was born in Norway in 1974, into a non-practicing Lutheran family, and entered the Catholic Church in June 1993. In 2002, after ten years of study at the University of Cambridge, he [...]
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A layman’s case for restoring the Friday meat fast
By Matthew Becklo on Nov 14, 2024 12:40 pmOn day two of the USCCB Fall Assembly this week, Archbishop Borys Gudziak spoke about the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’ in 2025 and proposed a striking idea for marking the occasion in the US: restoring the Friday [...]
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Thomas Farr, defender of religious freedom
By George Weigel on Nov 13, 2024 09:15 pmEditor’s note: On the evening of November 13, the Washington-based Religious Freedom Institute gave its “Defender of Religious Freedom Award” to Dr. Thomas Farr: a devout Catholic who had a distinguished career in public service before working in [...]
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Catholic Imagination Conference, focused on past and future, continues to grow
By Michael Mastromatteo on Nov 13, 2024 07:21 pmNOTRE DAME, IN – What began nine years ago as a small-scale effort to re-emphasize a Catholic consciousness in fiction, poetry, and other fine arts has now grown into something much more comprehensive. The Biennial [...]
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Two (of many) reasons that Kamala Harris lost the election
By Kenneth Craycraft on Nov 13, 2024 12:16 pmAny number of legitimate reasons could be adduced for why Donald Trump won the election. But I think the better angle is to account for why Kamala Harris lost it, especially considering how broad was [...]
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The continuing scandal of the Vatican’s China policy
By George Weigel on Nov 13, 2024 04:00 amIn the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the Holy See’s timing as it renewed its 2018 agreement with the People’s Republic of China, which allows the [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, November 13, 2024
By CWR Staff on Nov 13, 2024 03:00 amOn Our Deep Need for the Creed –“Christianity without creeds, dogma and doctrine is sentimental nonsense.” The Crux of the Creed (National Catholic Register) Canterbury Tales Too Christian – “Nottingham had attached the silly bulletin [...]
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Liturgical Musical Chairs
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Nov 12, 2024 10:28 pmBy now, most readers will have heard about the whiplash emanating from the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, as Bishop Shawn McKnight’s decree of October 28 on liturgical music was revoked by November 5. The original document arose from [...]
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Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over handling of abuse cases
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 12, 2024 12:45 pmArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the primate of all England and leader of the Anglican Communion, announced his resignation on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, saying he takes “personal and institutional responsibility” for the mishandling of a num... [...]
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The 4B movement is a cult of death
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Nov 11, 2024 10:32 pmMany people watching the post-election meltdown of the Left on social media view it with some measure of Schadenfreude and I suspect the average American dismisses it as silly. In some sense, it is silly. [...]
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What translation of Augustine’s Confessions should I read?
By Dr. Jared Ortiz on Nov 11, 2024 08:00 pmEditor’s note: An earlier version of this essay was posted at CWR on January 25, 2021. The author has now added two recent translations—Peter Constantine (2018) and Anthony Esolen (2023)—and has lightly edited some of [...]
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Vatican prohibits Traditional Latin Mass in Bishop Strickland’s former cathedral
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 11, 2024 02:35 pmThe Confiteor at a Traditional Latin Mass. / Credit: James Bradley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Nov 11, 2024 / 15:35 pm (CNA). Celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in the cathedral of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, will cease... [...]
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The endless Synod and the ongoing attack on Veritatis Splendor
By Richard A. Spinello on Nov 11, 2024 04:00 amThe Synod on Synodality has come to an end with Pope Francis’ ratification of its long final document. But the synodal process grinds on as the Church now awaits the findings of its fifteen Study [...]
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Letter from Leyte, eighty years ago
By George Weigel on Nov 10, 2024 06:47 pmIn November 1944, my father, Ensign George S. Weigel, USNR, was serving as executive officer of USS APc 18: a coastal patrol and transport ship, armed with four 20 mm. anti-aircraft guns, that would eventually [...]
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Classical Catholic grammar school launches in Harlem
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 10, 2024 12:00 pmThe inaugural class at Saint John Paul the Great Academy with staff and the Servidoras in New York City. / Credit: Saint John Paul the Great Academy CNA Staff, Nov 10, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A group of religious sisters has launched the only cl... [...]
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Widows and scribes, substance and style
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 10, 2024 03:00 amReadings: • 1 Kngs 17:10-16 • Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 • Heb 9:24-28 • Mk 12:38-44 “Substance over style.” This phrase is a good reminder that a culture filled with empty rhetoric, flashing lights, endless [...]
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Étienne Gilson and post-conciliar theology
By Dr. Christopher Shannon on Nov 09, 2024 10:02 pmÉtienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain were the leading Catholic public intellectuals of the middle decades of the twentieth century. Major figures in the Thomistic revival within Catholic intellectual life, they were also ambassadors to the [...]
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Pro-life students in IN fight to defend the unborn and their free speech rights
By Charles J. Russo on Nov 09, 2024 09:43 pmAs illustrated by E.D. v. Noblesville School District—a case from Indiana in which the Seventh Circuit recently heard oral arguments—controversies continue over the pro-life beliefs and free speech rights of students. Late in the summer of 2021, [...]
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Synod on Synodality undersecretary: Deposit of faith doesn’t change and cannot change
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 09, 2024 12:00 pmBishop Luis Marín de San Martín is one of the key figures of the Synod on Synodality. Pope Francis appointed him its undersecretary. / Credit: Courtesy of Bishop Marín Vatican City, Nov 9, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín ... [...]
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Jesus Christ is the new and everlasting Temple
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 09, 2024 03:00 amReadings: • Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 • Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 • 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17 • Jn 2:13-22 Some thousand years before the time of Christ the great Temple of Solomon was built. Previously, [...]
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There’s something about Mary
By Nick Olszyk on Nov 08, 2024 09:00 pmMPAA Rating: PG Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 reels Christmas pageants were originally created by St. Francis of Assisi in the 13th century because the Ayyubid caliphate had blocked pilgrims’ access to the Holy Land. [...]
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Over 15 Catholic parishes close amid ongoing violence against Christians in Nigeria
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 08, 2024 06:55 pmBishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Nigerian Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state at a breakfast at Capitol Hill organized by Aid to the Church in Need, Jan. 30, 2024. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNA ACI Africa, Nov 8, 2024 / 14:55 pm (CNA). Bishop Wilfred Ch... [...]
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This is pro-life’s Jim Crow moment
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Nov 08, 2024 03:02 pmIt should have been a triumphal achievement. After nearly a century of dispute, rancor, and bloodshed, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in 1865. Abolitionists had labored for decades to end the abominable practice, but they [...]
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