Do courts or religious leaders decide who qualifies as a minister?
By Charles J. Russo on Apr 21, 2023 01:49 amTitle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), adopted during the height of the Civil rights movement, is the most significant federal anti-discrimination statute addressing employment. In relevant part, Title VII reads [...]
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Washington bishop: Priests would rather go to jail than break seal of confession
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 20, 2023 04:30 pmnull / Quisquilia/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Apr 20, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). As Washington state lawmakers debate legislation that would end legal protections for the seal of confession, Spokane Bishop Thomas A. Daly has assured his diocese t... [...]
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Adventures in woke adoption and synodal ambiguities
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 20, 2023 12:07 pmEarlier this week, The American Conservative published my essay “Woke Adoption” (I didn’t choose the title, but it fits), in which I relate some of what my wife and I have experience as adoptive/foster parents [...]
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The power of witness: How the early Church evangelized
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Apr 20, 2023 03:00 am“Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38). Peter finishes the [...]
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Catholicism and Pluralism Today
By James Kalb on Apr 19, 2023 10:55 pmWe hear that we live in a pluralist society. But what does that mean? It’s not just a society in which people have a variety of beliefs and standards. That situation’s been common since the [...]
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Understanding self-defense and the truth about using deadly force
By Dr. Patrick Toner on Apr 19, 2023 09:23 pmAmerican self-defense law is generally quite sensible, and in fact coheres remarkably well with Catholic teaching on self-defense. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, wrote: Wherefore if a man, in self-defense, uses more than necessary violence, [...]
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On a Wing and a Prayer is a bumpy cinematic ride
By Nick Olszyk on Apr 19, 2023 06:01 pmMPAA Rating: Not Rated at the Time of this Review Reel Rating: 2.5 out of 5 reels Flying as a passenger is often nerve-wracking enough. Being forced to pilot a plane mid-flight with almost no [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for April 19, 2023
By CWR Staff on Apr 19, 2023 04:01 amJesus’ Resurrection – “Skeptics will argue that Jesus’ resurrection is just one more instance of the dying-and-rising-god motif prevalent in the religions of the ancient Near East.” Jesus’ Resurrection Is Not a Pagan Myth (Catholic [...]
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Pacem in Terris after 60 years
By George Weigel on Apr 19, 2023 02:10 amOn April 11, 1963, John XXIII issued the encyclical Pacem in Terris, a powerful call for a world in which there were neither victims nor executioners that cemented the pontiff’s reputation as “Good Pope John.” [...]
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Reflections from Africa on destroying idols and saving souls
By Fr. William Ryan on Apr 18, 2023 05:13 pmWhen my brother Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J. visited me not long ago at the mission parish here in Togo, West Africa, where I’ve served for the past seventeen years as a priest on loan from [...]
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Christians arrested in Libya on charges of preaching and apostasy from Islam
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 18, 2023 09:23 amCity of Tripoli, Libya. / Credit: Shutterstock Tripoli, Libya, Apr 18, 2023 / 08:23 am (CNA). Last week Libya’s Internal Security Agency launched a campaign in the city of Tripoli to arrest Libyan citizens and foreigners accused of apostasy fro... [...]
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A Short History of the Lie of the Blood Libel
By Sandra Miesel on Apr 17, 2023 07:11 pmThe lie known as the blood libel is the ugliest expression of antisemitism. It accuses Jews of kidnapping and murdering Christians to obtain their blood for magic, medicine, or matzoh-making. The victims—typically small boys—were not [...]
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Judgment in the midst of the storm
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Apr 17, 2023 06:38 pmOn March 31 of this year, shortly after 2 pm local time, an EF 3 tornado ripped through the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, cutting a path of destruction that also affected the communities of [...]
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BREAKING: Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged with sexual assault in Wisconsin
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 17, 2023 11:01 amTheodore McCarrick / U.S. Institute of Peace / CC BY NC 2.0 Boston, Mass., Apr 17, 2023 / 10:01 am (CNA). Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been criminally charged with fourth-degree sexual assault in Wisconsin for an incident that alleged... [...]
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Rediscovering the Catholic intellectual tradition of the twentieth century
By Casey Chalk on Apr 16, 2023 10:03 pmA few months ago, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Robert Royal, founder and president of the Faith & Reason Institute. For the uninitiated, Dr. Royal, in my humble opinion, is one [...]
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The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality
By Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. on Apr 16, 2023 09:21 pmSt. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgement of our own, and keep the mind every ready and prompt to obey in all things, the [...]
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Pope Francis defends St. John Paul II against ‘offensive conjectures’ from brother of missing ‘Vatican girl’
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 16, 2023 07:10 amPope Francis at the Regina Caeli on April 16, 2023 (L) and a tapestry of St. Pope John Paul II from his canonization on April 27, 2014 (R). / Vatican Media (L) and Lauren Cater/CNA (R) Vatican City, Apr 16, 2023 / 06:10 am (CNA). Pope Francis o... [...]
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Free speech for some—but not for Christians?
By Charles J. Russo on Apr 15, 2023 10:06 pmCan public school teachers make their faith known in public? As evidenced by a recent incident in Loudoun County, Virginia, controversy and confusion over this point—fueled by educators’ lack of understanding of recent Supreme Court [...]
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Do not be misled: Bad company will corrupt good morals
By Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. on Apr 15, 2023 08:33 pmIn his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul addresses corruption among Corinth’s early community of believers. At the time, some Christians in the Greek city had begun denying Jesus’s resurrection, leading to a focus [...]
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Tinder is the (current) night
By Christopher R. Altieri on Apr 15, 2023 04:00 amIt’s a good thing Pope Francis never actually said, “Tinder is normal.” Nobody wants to have to write: “No, Holy Father, Tinder is not normal.” That’s a sentence for an opening line to a parody. [...]
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Are Pope Francis’ most recent appointments non-ideological?
By William Kilpatrick on Apr 14, 2023 10:23 pmA recent National Catholic Reporter (NCR) piece points out that due to retirements and other factors, “Pope Francis faces chance to radically reshape US Catholic hierarchy.” Most of the experts interviewed by NCR predicted that [...]
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From fear to faith to fellowship
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 14, 2023 05:00 pmReadings: • Acts 2:42-47 • Psa 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 • 1 Pet 1:3-9 • Jn 20:19-31 Fear. Then faith. Followed by fellowship. Considered together, the readings for this second Sunday of Easter, or Divine Mercy [...]
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Canada’s assisted suicide guidance for docs: ‘virtual’ assessments, and don’t tell patient’s family
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 14, 2023 12:12 pmnull / Video Creative/Shutterstock. Denver, Colo., Apr 14, 2023 / 11:12 am (CNA). The Canadian government has released new recommended standards and advice for medical doctors concerning physician-assisted suicide that critics say do nothing to... [...]
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