Easter is the door, and Good Friday is the key

How the Mystery of the Trinity illuminates the mystery of atonement

By Carl E. Olson on Apr 07, 2023 04:00 am
Margaret M. Turek, S.T.D., is Professor of Theology and Chair of Dogmatic Theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University. After studying and earning degrees at the University of San Francisco (where she studied in the [...]
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Easter is the door, and Good Friday is the key

By William L. Patenaude on Apr 07, 2023 03:00 am
“Likewise, either on the altar or near it, there is to be a cross, with the figure of Christ crucified upon it, a cross clearly visible to the assembled people. It is desirable that such [...]
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A Pope at Disney and the Church “in diapers”

By Larry Chapp on Apr 06, 2023 05:32 pm
In a documentary titled “The Pope: Answers,” filmed in June 2022 and just released by Disney+, Pope Francis gives answers to hot button questions from ten young adults about sex, abortion, and gender. Many of [...]
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Apocalypse Now: Living in Hope at the End of an Age

By Francis X. Maier on Apr 06, 2023 04:00 am
Tranquility in the Church is a rare and beautiful thing, with an emphasis on that word, “rare.” And this explains why two of my favorite saints are Francis of Assisi and Augustine of Hippo. Both [...]
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Holy Thursday, footwashing, and the institution of the priesthood

By Dr. Leroy Huizenga on Apr 06, 2023 03:00 am
In many Catholic parishes on Holy Thursday, a footwashing ritual is incorporated into Mass. Although optional, most parishes choose to do it, for it is a most powerful symbol in the present day, just as [...]
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Franciscan friar’s attack on bishops and doctrine is a theological disaster

By T. Alex Giltner, Ph.D. on Apr 05, 2023 08:58 pm
Franciscan Friar Daniel P. Horan, in a response to the USCCB’s March 20th document “Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to the Technological Manipulation of the Human Body,” refers to the Note as a “disaster”. [...]
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‘The truth that has been given to us’: Norway’s Bishop Varden on speaking about sexuality

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 05, 2023 11:30 am
Bishop Erik Varden spoke to CNA about the role of a bishop, and why the Nordic bishops’ conference chose to publish a letter on sexuality and transgenderism at this time. / Pål Johannes Vatican City, Apr 5, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA). In March, the ... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for April 5, 2023

By CWR Staff on Apr 05, 2023 04:00 am
Costs of Technologies – “The danger of A.I. is not that it becomes like us, but that we become like it.” The Cross of Code (The American Conservative) The Divine Project – “Ignatius Press has [...]
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Easter and history

By George Weigel on Apr 05, 2023 02:03 am
Once upon a time, before the Cuisinart of advanced educational thinking reduced history, geography, and civics to the tasteless gruel of “social studies,” humanity’s story was taught in a linear fashion, and under chapter headings [...]
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Opinion: The perils of the unprecedented prosecution of Donald Trump

By Russell Shaw on Apr 04, 2023 01:57 pm
The indictment of former President Donald Trump has created a perilous situation—perilous for Trump, to be sure, but perilous especially for the nation. One need not be a Trump fan to share the view that [...]
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The forbidden fruit and the genesis of The Pill

By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Apr 03, 2023 10:24 pm
Human beings have contended against limits on their freedom from the very beginning. “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden,” God commanded Adam, “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and [...]
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