‘Nones’ now largest religious category in U.S., new report says
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 25, 2024 04:55 pmnull / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 25, 2024 / 17:55 pm (CNA). Religiously unaffiliated people, often referred to as “nones,” now make up the largest religious category in the U.S., according to a new report by the P... [...]
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“What shall I do, sir?”: On the conversion of Saint Paul
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 25, 2024 01:18 pmReadings: • Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22 • Psa 117:1bc, 2 • Mk 16:15-18 Horse or no horse, it’s a powerful, moving story. My pastor and I have a running joke about the conversion of St. [...]
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Cardinal Zen: Fiducia Supplicans ‘creates confusion’; suggests Fernández should resign
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 25, 2024 09:30 amCardinal Joseph Zen preaches a sermon during a Mass at the Holy Cross Church on May 24, 2022, in Hong Kong, China. / Anthony Kwan/Getty Images Rome Newsroom, Jan 25, 2024 / 08:30 am (CNA). Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun said Pope Francis’ recent d... [...]
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St. Augustine, Florida: The Catholic Plymouth Rock
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jan 25, 2024 04:00 amFlorida, that land fancied by Ponce de Leon as a bouquet of Paschal flowers, stands at the beginning of the Catholic story of the United States. My last column spoke about the pilgrim nature of [...]
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Vatican appeals court sentences priest to prison for sexual abuse of teen
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 24, 2024 04:25 pmSculpture of St. Peter outside of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Unsplash Rome Newsroom, Jan 24, 2024 / 17:25 pm (CNA). The Vatican Court of Appeals sentenced an Italian priest to jail on Jan. 23 for “the crime of corruption of ... [...]
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The African bishops, Fiducia Supplicans, and cultural colonization
By Anne Hendershott on Jan 24, 2024 05:00 amPronouncing the Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans “in direct contradiction to the cultural ethos of African communities,” the African bishops formally issued a strong statement of protest on January 11th titled “No Blessing for Homosexual Couples [...]
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The Salesian Option
By Aquae Regiae on Jan 24, 2024 04:00 amI have always had a particular fondness for the Saints of the Counter Reformation, perhaps because they were such exemplars of apostolic zeal in a time of great social upheaval. They were men and women [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 24, 2024
By CWR Staff on Jan 24, 2024 03:00 amRole Model of Faith – “Just ten days after the death of Pope Benedict XVI on New Year’s Eve 2022, we were shocked by the news that Cardinal Pell, too, had preceded us into the [...]
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Blessed Benedetta: A life with pain is still a life worth living
By Dawn Beutner on Jan 23, 2024 05:30 pmIs a life with pain a life not worth living? Proponents of assisted suicide laws appear to think that’s often the case. For Canadians, mental illness has apparently become too great a pain to bear, [...]
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Fr. Spitzer’s new book exposes common secular fallacies about faith and science
By Jerry Salyer on Jan 23, 2024 02:19 pm“The idea of a universal Mind, or Logos, would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of theory.”– Sir Arthur Eddington Years ago, I taught a high school history of science [...]
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A Catholic business leader’s basic field guide
By Paul Winkler on Jan 22, 2024 08:43 pmSt. Augustine said, when he was bishop of Hippo, “Change the heart and the work will be changed.” I have found out working with Catholic business leaders over the past nine years that there’s a [...]
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Cardinal explains how African rejection of Fiducia Supplicans was handled
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 22, 2024 05:00 pmCardinal Fridolin Ambongo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar. / Credit: François-Régis Salefran CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 22, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, president o... [...]
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On resurrection, abortion, and judgment
By James V. Schall, S.J. on Jan 22, 2024 03:00 amEditor’s note: The following essay was originally posted on April 9, 2012; it is reposted here in recognition of the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. “On the morning of the [...]
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Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., and Bishop Robert Barron in conversation
By CWR Staff on Jan 21, 2024 09:59 pmWord on Fire founder Bishop Robert Barron, who is bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, recently spoke with Fr. Fessio, S.J., founder and editor of Ignatius Press. “Friends,” writes Bishop Barron about the interview, “Fr. [...]
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PHOTOS: Thousands turn out for life at Walk for Life West Coast and OneLife LA
By Jim Graves on Jan 21, 2024 12:00 pmThousands participate in Walk for Life West Coast on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, in San Francisco. / Credit: Jose Aguirre/Walk for Life West Coast Los Angeles, Calif., Jan 21, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Rain couldn’t dampen the hearts that champion th... [...]
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The Ghost of Synods Past: The Synod of Elvira
By J. J. Ziegler on Jan 20, 2024 11:05 pmIn 303, the Roman Emperor Diocletian launched a brutal persecution of the Church. The persecution lasted for a decade, until Constantine extended toleration to Christians in the Edict of Milan. Against this backdrop, nineteen bishops [...]
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St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology in midst of major expansion
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 20, 2024 06:00 pmSt. Paul Center for Biblical Theology in Steubenville, Ohio. / Credit: Thomas Payeur Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jan 20, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, founded by renowned Scripture scholar and longtime EWTN host Dr.... [...]
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An empty Hart of gold
By Nick Olszyk on Jan 20, 2024 04:41 pmMPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: Not Rated at the Time of this Review Reel Rating: 2 out of 5 reels When I was in film school, I took a directing course with Sheldon Epps, a [...]
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Jonah and the call to constant conversion
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 20, 2024 03:00 amOn the Readings for January 21, 2018 [...]
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The Gospel According to Paul—or Jesus?
By Matthew Becklo on Jan 19, 2024 08:52 pmThis week, a viral video captured NYC-based pastor Brandan Robertson—known as “the TikTok pastor,” at least according to his website—making a peculiar argument: that St. Paul and Jesus “are preaching two different Gospels.” Robertson’s comments [...]
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Is war “in itself” immoral?
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jan 19, 2024 06:00 pmIn his January 14th Angelus remarks, Pope Francis uttered a sentence that deserves thorough analysis and—in my view—is deeply problematic. Talking about military conflict across the world, particularly in “Ukraine, Palestine, and Israel,” Francis said: [...]
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Dutch bishops offer cautious response to Vatican blessing guidance, bucking regional trend
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 19, 2024 03:30 pmBishop Hans van den Hende walks in Keukenhof park in Lisse, Netherlands, on April 12, 2022. / Credit: Ramon Mangold/Diocese of Rotterdam Rome Newsroom, Jan 19, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). The Catholic bishops of the Netherlands have issued a ca... [...]
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