Holy children and teens of the Church
By Dawn Beutner on Feb 02, 2023 05:00 amWhen Ellen Organ died at the age of four, the adults who knew her considered her to be a saint. More people began to believe in Ellen’s sanctity when her body was found to be [...]
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Catholic Schools Week 2023: The Financial Question
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 02, 2023 04:00 amFor the 47th year, the Church in the United States observes Catholic Schools Week, this year from Sunday, January 29, to Saturday, February 4. As regular readers of CWR know, I am an indefatigable proponent [...]
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“Inclusion” and Catholicism
By George Weigel on Feb 02, 2023 12:00 amBack in the day, kiddie-Catholics learned that the Church had four “marks:” the Church is one, holy, catholic (as in “universal”), and apostolic. These marks derived from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, which we recite at Mass [...]
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The Vatican’s new guidelines for ethical investing: A Q&A with Dr. Samuel Gregg
By Kathy Schiffer on Feb 01, 2023 08:18 pmIn his World Youth Day address of 2015, Pope Francis echoed the teaching of Pope Benedict when he posited that “Purchasing is always a moral – and not simply an economic act.” With this observation, [...]
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Acquitted pro-life activist Mark Houck reveals details of ‘reckless’ FBI raid; will press charges
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 01, 2023 03:31 pmAfter being acquitted of federal charges by a jury in Philadelphia on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, Mark Houck embraces and kisses his wife, Ryan-Marie Houck. Also with Houck are his son Mark Houck Jr., 14, and his daughter, Ava Houck, 12. / Joe Bukura... [...]
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Radical Inclusion Requires Radical Love
By Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila on Feb 01, 2023 11:59 amI have written of my concerns in the past with the German Synodal Process, as well as concerns with other bishops and cardinals and their take on the process. They essentially ignore the oft repeated [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for February 1, 2023
By CWR Staff on Feb 01, 2023 09:43 amGoing Under the Big Tent – “I suggest that prior to any talk about “enlarging the tent,” Catholics and particularly their bishops should strive to realize anew whose “tent” it is, and the doxological end [...]
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Why didn’t Jesus consider these inclusive ideas?
By Thomas M. Doran on Jan 31, 2023 06:52 pmIn an age when so many have raised inclusivity to the status of a Commandment, I have been pondering how Jesus might have better incorporated this priority into his teachings, priorities, and disciples. We ought [...]
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Utah bans transgender surgery for minors, places hold on hormone drugs
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 31, 2023 01:50 pmnull / Image credit: ADragan/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 31, 2023 / 11:50 am (CNA). Transgender surgery for minors is now prohibited in Utah and the prescription of transgender medicine for minors has temporarily been placed on ... [...]
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Cardinal McElroy’s Grand Deception
By Larry Chapp on Jan 30, 2023 09:56 pmCardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego, in his recent manifesto on synodality (“Cardinal McElroy on ‘radical inclusion’ for L.G.B.T. people, women and others in the Catholic Church”) in America magazine, has done us a [...]
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Saints by the numbers: Catholic martyrs from the first century to the twentieth
By Dawn Beutner on Jan 30, 2023 06:37 pmHow many martyrs have there been in the history of the Catholic Church? This turns out to be a more complicated question than one might think. Take, for example, the group known collectively as the [...]
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The next Doctor of the Church?
By Casey Chalk on Jan 30, 2023 02:43 pmLast January, Pope Francis declared Church Father St. Irenaeus of Lyon (d. 202) to be a Doctor of the Church, a title given to those of eminent learning, a high degree of sanctity, and having [...]
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German bishops’ president rebukes Pope Francis for criticism of Synodal Way
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 30, 2023 01:45 pmBishop Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German bishops’ conference, meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, June 24, 2021. / Vatican Media. CNA Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA). Bishop Georg Bätzing has criticized Pope Francis and dismisse... [...]
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Pope Francis accepts Ouellet’s resignation, appoints American to lead Dicastery for Bishops
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 30, 2023 09:27 amBishop Robert Francis Prevost was named prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops on Jan. 30, 2023. / Credit: Frayjhonattan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 07:27 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Monday named an Am... [...]
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Where is Mass attendance highest? One country is the clear leader
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 29, 2023 04:00 pmA group of school girls receiving the sacraments of baptism and confirmation in Onitsha, Anambra, Nigeria, on May 30, 2022. / Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Jan 29, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). A compilation of new data by the Center for Applied R... [...]
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Sanity, synodality, and Germany
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jan 29, 2023 11:54 amA headshrinker could have a field day with the interview Pope Francis gave to the Associated Press last week. There was plenty of grist for the mill, and news nonetheless buried between the argle and [...]
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Pope Francis decries culture that ‘throws away’ unborn children, elderly, poor
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 29, 2023 07:55 amPope Francis greets the crowd at his Sunday Angelus address on Jan. 29, 2023. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Jan 29, 2023 / 05:55 am (CNA). In his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis decried a culture that “throws away” unborn children, the eld... [...]
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A Warning Ignored
By Marcus Grodi on Jan 28, 2023 04:37 pmThirty-seven years ago today, on January 28, 1986, seven astronauts suffered a horrendous death as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air seventy-three seconds after takeoff. Almost anyone, at least in America, who was alive [...]
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Pope Francis’s remarks to AP about Rupnik are confusing and contradictory
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jan 28, 2023 01:03 pmA papal interview made real waves in the news this week, for the first time in a good while and for very good reason. The really big piece of news from the AP interview was [...]
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