“The one thing worth fearing is separation from Him Who Is”
By Daniel Capó on Feb 15, 2024 08:16 pmEditor’s note: This conversation between Bishop Erik Varden and Daniel Capó has been published, in its Spanish translation, in the February issue of Ecclesia magazine. It has also appeared in English on Mr. Capó’s site [...]
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Biden administration works to deny financial aid to pro-life pregnancy centers
By Charles J. Russo on Feb 15, 2024 08:00 pmIn October 2023, the Biden administration, through the Department of Health and Human Services, under the direction of Xavier Becerra, continued its unrelenting attack on pro-life family centers. After a failed attempt to deny financial [...]
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English Catholic priest vindicated for ‘pro-life’ opinion in end-of-life case
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 15, 2024 07:00 pmFather Patrick Pullicino, an English Catholic priest and neurologist, has been vindicated after being investigated by a UK medical regulation agency for giving his expert opinion in an emergency end-of-life case. / Credit: Christian Concern CNA... [...]
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Blessed Eustochium Bellini: Possessed or Holy?
By Dawn Beutner on Feb 15, 2024 04:55 pmLucrezia Bellini was born in 1444 in Padua, Italy, became a Benedictine nun, and died in her native city in 1469. She is remembered by the Catholic Church as Blessed Eustochium of Padua this week, [...]
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Vatican hosts veneration of relics of 21 Coptic martyrs of Libya on first feast day
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 15, 2024 08:03 amIcon of the 21 Martyrs of Libya. / Credit: Image courtesy of Tony Rezk, via tonyrezk.blogspot.com Rome Newsroom, Feb 15, 2024 / 09:03 am (CNA). The relics of 21 Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya will be venerated in St. Peter’s Basilica o... [...]
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“We have to show up”: On Lent and our love of God
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Feb 14, 2024 08:47 pmA few weeks ago, the priest gave me the most memorable advice that I’ve heard in the confessional in a long time. I had finished recounting my sins, and, before absolution, Father made this observation: [...]
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The message of the ashes
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 14, 2024 08:00 amWhat is this strange fascination with ashes? By day’s end, in this Church of the Holy Innocents three blocks north of Macy’s in Midtown Manhattan, priests will have imposed ashes on the foreheads of thousands [...]
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Lenten literary companions
By George Weigel on Feb 14, 2024 04:00 amThe traditional Lenten practices of intensified prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are spiritual disciplines to be followed along the six-week pilgrimage from Ash Wednesday to the Easter Triduum. As I suggested in Roman Pilgrimage: The Station [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, February 14, 2024
By CWR Staff on Feb 14, 2024 03:00 amToo Much Focus on Rome? – “Previous popes aided us in that desire for cultural resistance. This Pope does not. Therefore, perhaps it is time to forge ahead on our own to pursue a life [...]
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Get Married provides an urgent imperative based on data and experience
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Feb 13, 2024 08:00 pmThere are two unusual things about this book: It’s coming out for Valentine’s Day. And the title is a simple, strong imperative. The release of Get Married was deliberately planned to coincide with the end [...]
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The Offense of the Cross
By Matthew Becklo on Feb 13, 2024 04:31 pmThe Hallow app has quickly become one of the most successful prayer apps in the country—and not just for Catholics. It was the first faith-based app to crack the overall top 10; it boasts over [...]
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Another Byzantine-era church in Turkey to revert to mosque
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 13, 2024 10:00 amByzantine era icons in the interior of the church. / Credit: Shutterstock ACI MENA, Feb 13, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). After serving as a museum for more than 79 years, the Turkish government is proceeding with plans to make the Church of the Holy ... [...]
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The power of a woman’s voice: Alejandro Monteverde reflects on Mother Cabrini
By Kathy Schiffer on Feb 12, 2024 10:00 pm“The world is too small for what I intend to do.” – Francesca Cabrini Alejandro Monteverde, the award-winning director of Sound of Freedom and Bella, had never heard of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini when he [...]
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Book presents the voices, perspectives of faithful Catholics in U.S.
By CWR Staff on Feb 12, 2024 07:58 pmFrancis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C., a contributor to CWR, and the author of the new book True Confessions: Voices of Faith [...]
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Mark Wahlberg encourages millions to “Stay Prayed Up”
By Susan Ciancio on Feb 12, 2024 05:05 pmDuring the Super Bowl yesterday, millions of Americans were able to pause from the craziness of the game and pray. In an ad for Hallow—the Catholic prayer app founded by University of Notre Dame alumni [...]
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Nigeria fast becoming a hostile killing field, Catholic bishops in Ibadan province say
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 12, 2024 08:00 amCatholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province in Nigeria. / Credit: Bishop Emmanuel Badejo Ado Ekiti, Nigeria, Feb 12, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Catholic bishops in Nigeria’s Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province (IEP) are alarmed by the recurrent a... [...]
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Lent and the Divine Life
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 11, 2024 07:00 pm“Fasting is a medicine.” — St. John Chrysostom “The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” — Matthew 9:15 “What are you giving up for Lent?” [...]
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What to do when temptation seems overwhelming?
By David Paul Deavel on Feb 11, 2024 06:02 pmLent is almost here. The Church asks us to make this season one of particular effort to learn holiness’s two aspects: living fully the new life in Christ that began in our baptism and putting [...]
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The heroic virtue of María Antonia of Saint Joseph
By J. J. Ziegler on Feb 10, 2024 08:00 pmOn December 16, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced that Pope Francis will canonize Blessed María Antonia of Saint Joseph (1730-1799) on February 11. Born near Santiago del Estero, Argentina, as María Antonia [...]
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Tolkien’s lessons for Hollywood’s failures
By Nathanael Blake on Feb 10, 2024 06:36 pmHollywood has lost the plot, and is bricking what should be cinematic layups. The once can’t-miss Marvel franchise is serving up duds. In the hands of Disney, the Star Wars universe is losing whatever fan [...]
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Katalin Novák resigns as president of Hungary
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 10, 2024 04:25 pmHungarian President Katalin Novak addresses a joint press conference with the Polish president after talks in Warsaw, Poland, on May 17, 2022. / Credit: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images Budapest, Hungary, Feb 10, 2024 / 17:25 pm (CNA). Kat... [...]
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Is Christianity “pie in the sky” religion or an “island of mercy and security”?
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 10, 2024 04:00 amOn the Readings for Sunday, February 11, 2018 [...]
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In praise of Gestis verbisque
By Larry Chapp on Feb 09, 2024 09:40 pmThe latest document from the DDF, Gestis verbisque, is a breath of fresh air. It addresses a pressing situation long in need of papal attention, stretching back decades, and does so with some uncharacteristic clarity. [...]
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The drama of human trafficking in the world: 50 million are enslaved
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 09, 2024 05:00 pmnull / Credit: 271 EAK MOTO/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 9, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Any day of the year more than 50 million people are enslaved in the world according to the latest estimate published in a joint report by the International... [...]
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