A Saintly View of Vatican II

A Saintly View of Vatican II: On St. John Paul II and the Council

By Douglas Bushman on Oct 22, 2020 07:47 pm
Editor’s note: This essay, which originally appeared at CWR on May 31, 2020, is reposted in honor of St. John Paul II’s feast day. “By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that [...]
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Rethinking the choosing of a President

By Russell Shaw on Oct 22, 2020 04:44 pm
Let me begin with what I suspect will be a welcome promise—I won’t tell you which candidate to vote for or how I plan to vote. As to the first, by this point in the [...]
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Pope Francis’ homosexuality comments heavily edited in documentary, no Vatican comment on civil unions

By Catholic News Agency on Oct 22, 2020 04:26 pm
CNA Staff, Oct 22, 2020 / 12:20 pm (CNA).- “Francesco,” a newly-released documentary on Pope Francis, contains comments from the pope on homosexuality and civil unions. Some of the remarks, however, are the result of [...]
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The deeply flawed opportunism of Pope Francis

By Carl E. Olson on Oct 21, 2020 10:21 pm
“Pope Blesses Gay Weddings”, declares the headline in Metro, one of Britain’s largest newspapers, over the subhead, “Homosexuals Are Children of God … They Have a Right To Civil Unions”. True? Accurate? Close enough? Not [...]
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Loving God first and completely

By Fr. Charles Fox on Oct 21, 2020 07:12 pm
Love is not love. The slogan, “love is love,” stands at the heart of the cultural conflict over the notion of “same-sex marriage”. There is much to say about that specific topic, and a recently [..]
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Pope Francis calls for civil union law for same-sex couples, in shift from Vatican stance

By Catholic News Agency on Oct 21, 2020 05:05 pm
CNA Staff, Oct 21, 2020 / 06:35 am (CNA).- In a documentary that premiered Wednesday in Rome, Pope Francis called for the passage of civil union laws for same-sex couples, departing from the position of [...]
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Joe Biden, pre-conciliar Catholic?

By George Weigel on Oct 21, 2020 03:01 am
The image of the pre-conciliar Catholic Church in the United States as catechetically effective and politically potent can be hard to square with the long-term damage done to Catholicism’s role in American public life by [...]
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The Hallowed House and the Secular World

By Carl E. Olson on Oct 20, 2020 10:00 pm
Editor’s note: This interview with Dr. Thomas Howard, who died last week at the age of 85, was originally published by CWR on December 12, 2012. Thomas Howard is one of the most erudite and [...]
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Alleged Vatican money transfers during Pell trial referred to police by Australian intelligence agency

By Catholic News Agency on Oct 20, 2020 02:07 pm
CNA Staff, Oct 20, 2020 / 09:46 am (CNA).- The Australian financial intelligence agency has handed information to federal police concerning allegations that international money transfers, amounting to hundreds of thousands of euros in Vatican [...]
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On the history and significance of third parties in the U.S.

By Stephen G. Adubato on Oct 20, 2020 02:46 am
The history and significance of “third parties” tend to be written off by most Americans. Easily dismissed as “wasted votes” or escape hatches from voting Democrat or Republican, third or minor parties have played a [...]
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