The Ghost of Synods Past: The Synod of 1967
By J. J. Ziegler on May 23, 2024 09:56 pmOn September 14, 1965, Pope St. Paul VI announced the establishment of the Synod of Bishops. In doing so, he accepted a proposal advanced by Archbishop Silvio Oddi in 1959 that had gained much support in the intervening years. [...]
Read in browser »
Following the land’s liturgy
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on May 23, 2024 08:48 pmWe shook on it. After too many moves, my wife and I committed to move once more into a small cabin on the land. After years of false starts, it finally happened, as I wrote back [...]
Read in browser »
Florida priest charged for biting arm of woman he says was desecrating Eucharist
By Catholic News Agency on May 23, 2024 05:21 pmnull / Credit: Pixabay CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 18:21 pm (CNA). A priest in Florida bit the forearm of a woman he says was desecrating the Eucharist in a Communion line at church this past Sunday and has now been charged with one count of batt... [...]
Read in browser »
Is the Supreme Court seeking a middle ground in the abortion wars?
By Russell Shaw on May 23, 2024 12:16 pmIs the Supreme Court seeking a judicial middle ground in the abortion wars—a stance that pleases and displeases prolifers and prochoicers alike, although for opposite reasons? If so, two pending cases could provide opportunity for [...]
Read in browser »
Our Lady of Guadalupe becomes point of contention in Mexican presidential debate
By Catholic News Agency on May 22, 2024 04:03 pmMexico presidential candidates Claudia Sheinbaum (left) and Xóchitl Gálvez speak after the last presidential debate ahead the presidential election at Centro Cultural Tlatelolco on May 19, 2024, in Mexico City, Mexico. / Credit: Medios y Media/G... [...]
Read in browser »
Invoking John Paul the Great
By George Weigel on May 22, 2024 04:00 amROME. Age certainly accelerates one’s sense of the passage of time. Well do I remember high school classes that felt as long as Würm Glaciation, the minute hand circumambulating the clock’s perimeter at a glacial pace. [...]
Read in browser »
Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 22, 2024
By CWR Staff on May 22, 2024 03:00 amYoung German Priests Say “No Way!”– “An in-depth study of Germany’s younger priests has found they have limited interest in the changes to the Catholic Church advocated by the country’s controversial ‘synodal way.'” Study: Young [...]
Read in browser »
Church and Communism: An interview with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller
By CWR Staff on May 21, 2024 10:04 pmEditor’s note: This interview was first published, in German, on May 14, 2024, at kath.net. It was translated into English by Frank Nitsche-Robinson. Vatican (kath.net) “When I look at the Gospel sociologically, then yes, I [...]
Read in browser »
The American Abolition of Boys
By Anne Hendershott on May 21, 2024 04:27 pmChoosing the sex of a child created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) is banned in most countries throughout Europe. It is forbidden in Switzerland and Austria and prohibited (except for medical reasons) in France, Germany, [...]
Read in browser »
What can the women of the Old Testament teach us about Mary?
By Susan Ciancio on May 21, 2024 03:20 pmWhat do Miriam, Hannah, Sarah, Rahab, and several other women from the Old Testament have in common? They help point us to our Blessed Mother. And in a new book about these women, author Gayle [...]
Read in browser »
Our Lady of Hope Clinic has a heart for the uninsured
By Karen Mahoney on May 20, 2024 05:48 pmAs a young physician, Dr. Michael Kloess pushed aside his Catholic Faith, amalgamating it into the culture of medical professionals. But, although he enjoyed his practice, something kept tugging at his heart; he loved medicine [...]
Read in browser »
Cardinal Hollerich urges caution, dialogue on women’s ordination
By Catholic News Agency on May 20, 2024 01:44 pmCardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the relator general of the 16th Annual General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, May 20, 2024 / 14:44 pm (CNA). In a new interview, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, su... [...]
Read in browser »
The Questions 60 Minutes should have asked Pope Francis
By George Weigel on May 20, 2024 09:44 amWhatever else it managed to accomplish, Norah O’Donnell’s 60 Minutes interview with Pope Francis, aired on May 19, obliterated that much-lauded program’s reputation for hard-hitting investigative journalism. The questions posed touched on none of the [...]
Read in browser »
Colorado law allows students to change “chosen names” without parental input
By Charles J. Russo on May 19, 2024 08:35 pmAfter Colorado’s legislature recently turned parental rights on its ear in adopting House Bill 24-1039, Governor Jared S. Polis signed it into law on April 29, 2024. This bill requires officials in public schools, including [..]
Read in browser »
On the new Vatican norms for the discernment of supernatural phenomena
By Christopher R. Altieri on May 19, 2024 05:15 pmMuch of the talk last week was about the new Vatican norms for the discernment of supernatural phenomena—apparitions especially, but not exclusively—presented at a press conference in Rome on Friday. The run-up to the presser [...]
Read in browser »
Opinion: The dynamism and challenge of “DIY Traditionalism”
By Kevin Tierney on May 19, 2024 04:44 pmWhen Harrison Butker gave his now famous and controversial commencement speech at Benedictine College, he probably did not realize he was going to unleash the debate of the month (or longer). Even just one week [...]
Read in browser »
On Pentecost and “matters not dictated by the Holy Spirit”
By James V. Schall, S.J. on May 19, 2024 09:00 am“Objection: The Scripture is plainly full of matters not dictated by the Holy Spirit. –Answer: Then they do not harm faith. Objection: But the Church has decided that all is of the Holy Spirit. Answer: [...]
Read in browser »
St. John Paul II and Jérôme Lejeune: Two lives at the service of life
By George Weigel on May 18, 2024 05:51 pmNote: The following remarks were made at the II International Bioethics Conference, in Rome, on May 18, 2024. Many of the participants in this conference are experts in the life and thought of a great [...]
Read in browser »
Pentecost Sunday: Three essential truths about the Holy Spirit
By Carl E. Olson on May 18, 2024 12:00 pmReadings: • Acts 2:1-11 • Psa 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13, or Gal 5:16-25 • Jn 20:19-23, or Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15 “Spirit and fire are united—a true miracle, air and [...]
Read in browser »
Recovering Christian culture in an era of collapse and new beginnings
By Tracey Rowland on May 17, 2024 11:50 pmIt is an honour to deliver this address today. I stand before you as an Australian national and a subject of the British crown. It is not however entirely surprising that you should have a [...]
Read in browser »
Finding common ground in ordinary places
By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on May 17, 2024 05:24 pmA priest without clerical ambition is either a slothful miscreant, odd, holy in his detachment, or somewhere on that continuum. Regardless, he is a free man. Making fun of pesky politically correct social conventions becomes [...]
Read in browser »
BREAKING: New norms give Vatican greater say on alleged apparitions
By Catholic News Agency on May 17, 2024 10:33 amBreaking News / CNA Rome Newsroom, May 17, 2024 / 05:33 am (CNA). The Vatican’s top doctrinal office is centralizing its authority over the investigation of alleged Marian apparitions and other religious phenomena under new norms it issued Frid... [...]
Read in browser »
No comments:
Post a Comment