Making sense of Catholic rage

 

9/11 in the Land of the Free Falling

By Sean Fitzpatrick on Sep 10, 2020 08:42 pm
“If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not [...]
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On the troubling and growing popularity of cultural Marxism

By Russell Shaw on Sep 10, 2020 08:15 pm
Some years ago, Lee Edwards, a veteran conservative writer and a friend of mine, launched an organization, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, dedicated to “commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around [...]
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China’s foreign ministry: Vatican deal has been ‘implemented successfully’

By Catholic News Agency on Sep 10, 2020 07:50 pm
Vatican City, Sep 10, 2020 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said Thursday that China’s interim deal with the Vatican has been “implemented successfully.” He made the remark days before the [...]
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Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J.: A Tribute

By Cardinal George Pell on Sep 10, 2020 01:34 pm
Fr. Paul Mankowski lived his life in obscurity, but it is appropriate that his friends publicly acknowledge his private achievements at his death. After reading Tony Abbott’s eloquent tribute, my instinct was that another Australian [...]
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Why do those who challenge pro-lifers ignore this key question?

By Fr. Charles Fox on Sep 09, 2020 10:44 pm
As Election Day approaches, I am seeing a lot more public statements and posts on social media challenging pro-life people. Many statements seem to be charged with a great deal of fear, fear that the [...]
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In Chicago, shattered glass but also a vision of heaven

By Dr. Bryan Berry on Sep 09, 2020 06:30 pm
After all the bad news coming out of Chicago—the vandalism, looting, attacks against the police in the name of social justice, many homicides, depredations of the virus—it was good to finally get some good news [...]
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Religious freedom: bleached, blanched, and rinsed out

By George Weigel on Sep 09, 2020 03:01 am
Father Richard John Neuhaus put two Big Ideas into play in American public life. The first was that the pro-life movement (of which Neuhaus was an intellectual leader) was the natural heir to the moral [..]
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Queensland passes law requiring priests to break confessional seal

By Catholic News Agency on Sep 09, 2020 01:36 am
CNA Staff, Sep 8, 2020 / 08:01 pm (CNA).- The legislature of the Australian state of Queensland on Tuesday passed a law requiring priests to violate the seal of confession to report known or suspected [...]
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Making sense of Catholic rage

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Sep 08, 2020 11:04 pm
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. — Hos 4:6 Nature abhors a vacuum. —A Postulate of Aristotle Let no [...]
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You’re meant to be an eagle, not a chicken: A reflection on Baptism

By Bishop Robert Barron on Sep 08, 2020 06:31 pm
When I was doing full-time parish ministry, one of my favorite activities was performing Baptisms. I put the word in the plural, for I hardly ever baptized one baby at a time, but usually ten [...]
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