Shroud Shows What Jesus Endured for Our Salvation
By Jim Graves on Mar 22, 2024 04:40 amNora Creech is a lecturer on the history, science and pastoral implications of the Shroud of Turin, which many believe to be the burial cloth of Christ, who lives in Bakersfield, California (www.shroudeducator.com). Her educational [...]
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Saint Nicholas Owen: Builder, Brother, and Protector of Priests
By Dawn Beutner on Mar 22, 2024 03:00 amSometime during the night of May 1 and the morning of May 2 in the year 1606, Nicholas Owen died a martyr in the Tower of London. In 1970, he was canonized by Paul VI, [...]
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A simple movie about God’s providence and dogged determination
By Carl Kozlowski on Mar 21, 2024 08:31 pmSometimes the simplest movies can offer the most profound life lessons. The new movie Arthur the King, starring the devoutly Catholic Mark Wahlberg, is a prime example: it turns a true-life story of a man [...]
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German bishops to discuss Synodal Way with Vatican amid controversy
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 21, 2024 04:00 pmGerman bishops in Rome on Nov. 17, 2022. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Mar 21, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A delegation of German bishops is expected in Rome this Friday for talks with the Vatican about the German Synodal Way. While... [...]
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Abuse survivors speak out as Vatican is silent on use of Rupnik’s art
By Christopher R. Altieri on Mar 21, 2024 03:34 pmVictims and advocates are running out of patience with Pope Francis and the Vatican, as official Vatican outfits including the communications dicastery continue to make use of artwork produced by a disgraced former Jesuit, Fr. [...]
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On our 40 years in the workplace wilderness
By Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. on Mar 20, 2024 09:54 pmThe 40 days and 40 nights of Lent are, of course, not incidental. Noah endured 40 days and 40 nights of rain in the Ark. Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights up on Mount [...]
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African cardinal: Fiducia Supplicans seen as ‘cultural colonization, Western imperialism’
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 20, 2024 12:00 pmA screenshot of Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo during the March 17 interview with KTO. / Credit: KTO ACI Africa, Mar 20, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration by the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting t... [...]
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Following the Jewish Jesus
By George Weigel on Mar 20, 2024 04:00 amTwenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After going to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to pray at [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, March 20, 2024
By CWR Staff on Mar 20, 2024 03:00 amThe Light of Faith – “The rich quality of Lumen Fidei stands in unhappy contrast to every other document of the Francis tenure. It’s a painful judgment, but true. And on that point, justice requires some [...]
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Why is the Vatican still featuring artwork by disgraced Rupnik?
By Christopher R. Altieri on Mar 19, 2024 09:17 pmVatican Media illustrated its Feast of St. Joseph liturgical calendar post with a Rupnik studio image. So, what? Well, Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik (olim Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik SJ) is a disgraced celebrity artist-priest and [...]
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Pope’s remarks about the “LGBTQ+ community” cause further confusion
By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Mar 19, 2024 06:58 pmGood pastors must imitate the Good Shepherd and warn their sheep of ravenous wolves. When Cain murdered his brother, Abel, God said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to [...]
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The often silent and surprising history of devotion to Saint Joseph
By Sandra Miesel on Mar 19, 2024 04:00 amOur Lord’s foster-father has always held a prominent place in the hearts of the faithful, has he not? Surely, we have always invoked the trio of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph? At the risk of shocking [...]
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On four great virtues of Saint Joseph
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Mar 18, 2024 07:36 pmMarch 19th is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. People look to the saints as models of virtue, evidence of how concrete human beings have managed to live the kind of lives God wants of us. [...]
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Norwegian bishop celebrates Nordic country’s first Catholic Bible
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 18, 2024 01:30 pmBishop Erik Varden, OCSO, a Trappist monk and spiritual writer, has served as bishop of Trondheim in Norway since 2020. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Mar 18, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA). A Norwegian bishop and monk has hailed the publicat... [...]
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10th Anniversary of Annual Seminar: The Role of the Priest in Today’s Catholic School
By CWR Staff on Mar 18, 2024 11:57 amThe Catholic Education Foundation is hosting its tenth annual seminar on the role of the priest in today’s Catholic school from July 16-18, 2024. The intended audience is bishops, priests, and seminarians and is based on [...]
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Cardinal McElroy, homosexuality, and the repudiation of doctrine
By Larry Chapp on Mar 17, 2024 10:12 pmCardinal Robert McElroy, in his recent remarks to the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, stated the following: It is essential to safeguard the deposit of faith. But how do the doctrinal tradition and history of [...]
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Seeing Red is dark, humorous Orwellian fiction noir set in Detroit
By Carl E. Olson on Mar 17, 2024 02:00 pmT.M. Doran is the author of several novels, including Terrapin: A Mystery, Iota, and the “Toward the Gleam” trilogy: Toward the Gleam, The Lucifer Ego, and Kataklusmos. He is also a regular contributor to Catholic World Report. His new novel [...]
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Head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church talks war, the pope, and same-sex blessings
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 16, 2024 09:00 pmSviatoslav Shevchuk is major archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News Nightly Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 16, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). In an exclusive interview with EWTN New... [...]
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On the life and legacy, faith and glories of Saint Patrick
By Father Seán Connolly on Mar 16, 2024 08:00 pmJohn F. Kennedy was the first sitting American president to visit Ireland. He arrived there to much fanfare in June of 1963. At the City Hall in Cork he said: “Most countries send out oil [..]
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Unless we become grains of wheat…
By Carl E. Olson on Mar 16, 2024 04:30 amOn the Readings for March 18, 2018, the Fifth Sunday of Lent [...]
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Living out Lent from the power of Easter
By David Paul Deavel on Mar 16, 2024 04:00 amLent is still going. Are you tired yet? Have you cheated on vows to give up this or that luxury? Or perhaps to perform a charitable action or pray more often? The boxer Mike Tyson [...]
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Maine continues to discriminate against faith-based schools
By Charles J. Russo on Mar 15, 2024 09:03 pmEffective October 18, 2021, Maine amended its Human Rights Act (MHRA) by “add[ing] gender identity, religion, ancestry, and color” as protected classes under the statute and narrowed the religious exception to state that ‘[n]othing in [...]
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Did the Vatican really say that our bodies won’t rise from the dead?
By Nicholas Senz on Mar 15, 2024 02:07 pmThe Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) issued several documents late in 2023. The faithful had hardly digested one before the next was presented. One in particular generated a minor controversy before it [...]
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