Surprising tales from early America of brick-and-mortar ecumenism
By Kevin Schmiesing on Jan 24, 2025 04:00 amAs of this writing, I am two-thirds of the way through my production of a podcast series called “Cradles of Catholicism,” which provides a brief historical account of a foundational church in each of the [...]
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Having returned from exile, we hear the Word—and are united to the Word
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 24, 2025 03:00 amReadings: Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15 1 Cor 12:12-30 or 12:12-14, 27 Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21 The Church has four marks: it is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. These marks, states the [...]
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BREAKING: Trump pardons 23 pro-life activists
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 23, 2025 03:35 pmPro-life activists protest the incarceration of nine activists charged with FACE Act violations. / Credit: Tyler Arnold/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 23, 2025 / 16:35 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-life activist... [...]
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Why you should visit a monastery
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jan 23, 2025 03:00 amIn his Rule, St. Benedict remarks that a monastery is never without guests. Though he wrote this line 1,500 years ago, the monastery remains alluring even for modern visitors. The monks leave the normal course of [...]
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Blessed Benedetta Bianchi Porro and the beauty of Christlike suffering
By Dawn Beutner on Jan 23, 2025 03:00 amOne of the finest aspects of modern American culture is our willingness to find innovative ways to help individuals with disabilities. From motorized wheelchairs to individualized education programs to cutting edge assistive technology devices, there [...]
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Burma’s first military chaplains offer sacraments, spiritual support to front line soldiers
By Antonio Graceffo on Jan 22, 2025 07:25 pm“People are tired, sad, and disoriented because of the violence that never ceases,” said Bishop Nyunt Wai of Mawlamyine in southern Burma (Myanmar), referring to the war that has ravaged the country since 1948 and intensified dramatically [...]
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U.S. bishops criticize Trump’s executive orders on climate, death penalty, immigration
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 22, 2025 02:15 pmArchbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at the USCCB fall plenary assembly Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: USCCB video CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The president of the U.S. bishops’ c... [...]
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Joe Biden: When The Last Hurrah met Catholic Lite
By George Weigel on Jan 22, 2025 04:00 amFour years ago, this column praised the courage of Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, then-president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), for his Inauguration Day letter to President Joe Biden. In an entirely respectful [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 22, 2025
By CWR Staff on Jan 22, 2025 03:00 amThe Autobiography That Is Not An Autobiography – “Austen Ivereigh has mixed feelings (at best) about the Pope’s new autobiography, which he explains in a review for The Tablet. For one thing, he observes, ‘Hope [...]
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Do Die (Before You Die): A Catholic response to Bryan Johnson
By Matthew Becklo on Jan 22, 2025 12:49 amBryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has dedicated himself to the age-old pursuit of the fountain of youth, but with a new twist: putting all the power of modern science and technology to [...]
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Viewing the world and faith in Christ from the mountaintop
By Paul Senz on Jan 21, 2025 08:21 pmFather John Nepil has accomplished something that few others—priests or otherwise—have accomplished: he has summited all 54 of Colorado’s mountain peaks higher than 14,000 feet—twice. In the summer of 2022, he set out to traverse [...]
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Maine doubles down again on discrimination against religious schools
By Charles J. Russo on Jan 21, 2025 05:15 pmAs noted in an August 2024 column , anti-religious discrimination continues unabated in Maine despite the Supreme Court’s June 21, 2022 ruling in Carson v. Makin. In Carson, the Court reasoned that state officials could not exclude [...]
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Trump signs executive order affirming ‘biological reality of sex’
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 21, 2025 11:30 amPresident Donald Trump holds an executive order he just signed during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. / Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 21, 2025 / 09:30... [...]
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What is the purpose of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity?
By Nicholas LaBanca on Jan 20, 2025 05:20 pmThis year, Christians across the world celebrate a special anniversary. 1,700 years ago, the Council of Nicaea, the first Ecumenical Council, was held following the end of the Roman persecutions. Such an anniversary heightens the [...]
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What is Adultery?
By Richard A. Spinello on Jan 19, 2025 09:14 pmIt’s a foreboding sign when a newly installed Cardinal does not fully comprehend the nature of adultery. In a recent interview with LifeSite News, Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, OP, from the diocese of Oran in North [...]
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As National March for Life approaches, pro-lifers must challenge President Trump
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Jan 18, 2025 08:00 pmIt was an electric moment. After a three year build up that featured two vice-presidential visits, hitherto unprecedented, and one live video address, also unprecedented, Donald Trump did what no sitting American president had done [...]
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At Cana the veil of the ordinary was broken
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 18, 2025 12:00 pmReadings: • Is 62:1-5 • Ps 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 9-10 • 1 Cor 12:4-11 • Jn 2:1-11 Saint John’s account of the wedding in Cana is unique to his Gospel; it is also the first [...]
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What Biden’s ERA declaration probably means and why it matters
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jan 17, 2025 10:07 pmRoughly 72 hours before leaving the White House, Joseph Biden decided to share his opinion that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) had become part of the Constitution. He didn’t push his view all the way [...]
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David Lynch’s two visions of life
By Matthew Becklo on Jan 17, 2025 05:57 pm“In heaven, everything is fine . . .” Either this line means nothing to you, or it calls to mind the uniquely awful—and awfully unique—dread of Eraserhead. Such was the influence of the surrealist filmmaker David [...]
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‘Legally meaningless’: Experts respond to Biden’s Equal Rights Amendment declaration
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 17, 2025 03:05 pmWomen demonstrate for the Equal Rights Amendment in 1978. / Credit: Unknown photographer|Flickr|CC BY 2.0 CNA Staff, Jan 17, 2025 / 15:05 pm (CNA). Legal experts on Friday criticized President Joe Biden’s apparent attempt to unilaterally ratify... [...]
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In praise of David Lynch’s metaphysical, poetic pilgrim’s tale
By Filip Mazurczak on Jan 17, 2025 01:22 pmOn January 16, eccentric filmmaker David Lynch passed away at seventy-eight. While Lynch was known for bizarre, experimental, and polarizing work, his 1999 film The Straight Story is one of the most beautiful and profoundly Christian films [...]
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