Unity in what?
By George Weigel on May 15, 2024 02:10 amAmong the many urgent questions raised by the Synods on the Family in 2014 and 2015 and the current Synod on Synodality – questions that will inevitably bear on the next papal conclave – is [...]
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Wisdom beyond knowledge: Lessons from Good Will Hunting
By Tod Worner on May 14, 2024 10:35 pmWhere is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T.S. Eliot, Choruses from “The Rock” “You like apples?” Will asked through the bar’s plate glass window [...]
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Germany now a ‘mission country,’ Bishop Bätzing says amid declining Catholic numbers
By Catholic News Agency on May 14, 2024 08:32 amBishop Georg Bätzing addresses journalists on Sept. 28, 2023. / Credit: Martin Rothweiler/EWTN Germany CNA Newsroom, May 14, 2024 / 09:32 am (CNA). The German Bishops’ Conference president has called Germany — a nation whose very history is ent... [...]
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On Faggioli’s feverish “Trump-Strickland-Barron” fantasy
By Larry Chapp on May 13, 2024 07:05 pmMy friend, the journalist Christopher Altieri, says his least favorite form of writing is what he calls “ink on ink”. That is, a form of writing where one publication comments critically on something in a [...]
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Billard decision reveals strong protections against ideological extremism
By Gregory J. Sullivan on May 13, 2024 04:13 pmIn his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), the case that constitutionalized “same-sex marriage” and promptly became the emblem of judicial excess for our time, Justice Samuel Alito warned that the Court’s linking of traditional marriage [...]
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In the Courts of Three Popes opens windows into how the Church works
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on May 12, 2024 10:45 pmA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was Mark Twain’s novel in which the main character found himself in a very different world: Hank Morgan was somehow carried back in time to the court of King [...]
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We Grown Now is quiet, normal, and powerful
By Nick Olszyk on May 12, 2024 05:11 pmMPAA Rating: PG Reel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars We Grown Now opens with two kids, Malik (Blake James) and Eric (Gain Ramirez) struggling to take an old mattress down several flights of stairs. [...]
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Blessed Imelda and childlike devotion to the Eucharist
By Dawn Beutner on May 12, 2024 03:00 amAffection for Blessed Imelda Lambertini, whose feast day is May 12, has spread all over the world since 1910. That’s when Pope Saint Pius X lowered the age of reception of First Holy Communion to [...]
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Spinning Balthasar
By Tracey Rowland on May 11, 2024 08:23 pmRecently the name of Hans Urs von Balthasar has been invoked to defend the concept of a more “feminine” Church. On reading some reports it seems that the invocation has now become a meme and [...]
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International summit on climate change to bring California, New York governors to the Vatican
By Catholic News Agency on May 11, 2024 03:38 pmGovenor Gavin Newsom of California. / Karl_Sonnenberg/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, May 11, 2024 / 12:38 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s latest bid to tackle climate change will bring together politicians and researchers from around the world for a three... [...]
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Numbers, offices, and lots of authority
By Carl E. Olson on May 11, 2024 12:00 pmWhat’s in a number? When it comes to Scripture, there is often more—much more—to a number than meets the eye. Take, for instance, the number twelve. Although that number doesn’t appear directly in today’s readings, [...]
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Bishop Paprocki: Biden mocks Catholic faith by invoking Christ in pro-abortion message
By Catholic News Agency on May 10, 2024 06:30 pmBishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois. / Credit: Diocese of Springfield in Illinois Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 10, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, is accusing President Joe Bi... [...]
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Learning Latin while hiking the Wyoming mountains
By Julian Kwasniewski on May 10, 2024 05:59 pmEvery year, over eight million people visit Wyoming for vacation and tourism, enjoying hiking, fishing, and wildlife sightseeing across the state. Yellowstone Park is a special draw. And, every year also sees Catholic Latin lovers [...]
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Pope Francis on record-low fertility rate: ‘Human life is not a problem, it is a gift’
By Catholic News Agency on May 10, 2024 12:00 pmPope Francis greets a young girl at a conference on Friday, May 10, 2024, on the state of birth rates in Italy and the wider West at the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, May 10, 2024 / 10:00 am (CNA... [...]
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Passions of the Soul is often rewarding, sometimes lacking
By James R. A. Merrick, Ph.D. on May 17, 2024 03:00 am“We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she [...]
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Pope Francis says conservative critics have a ‘suicidal attitude’
By Catholic News Agency on May 16, 2024 10:26 pmCNA Staff, May 16, 2024 / 16:58 pm (CNA). In an interview with “60 Minutes” airing this Sunday, Pope Francis takes aim at his “conservative critics” in the United States, reportedly saying a conservative is someone who [...]
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Pro-lifers imprisoned under FACE Act speak out
By Catholic News Agency on May 16, 2024 01:48 pmWashington Surgi-Clinic on F St. NW in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 2022. / Credit: Katie Yoder/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 16, 2024 / 14:48 pm (CNA). After seven pro-life activists were sentenced to years in prison for a “rescue” attem... [...]
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Love (and Learning) in the Ruins
By Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. on May 15, 2024 10:15 pmThe news is chockful of campus protests, commencement walk-outs, devastated libraries, and shouting matches on the college lawns that traditionally represent solemn respites from exterior storms, where students read, ponder, and serenely stroll to their [...]
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Plato and Aristotle on youth and politics
By Dr. Edward Feser on May 15, 2024 08:00 pmAs faculty, including even philosophy professors, aid and abet student bad behavior on campus, it is worth considering what the most serious thinkers of the Western tradition would have thought about the political opinions and [...]
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New Catholic college to launch in South Carolina in Fall 2024
By Kathy Schiffer on May 15, 2024 02:59 pmGreenville, South Carolina, a scenic city in the foothills of North Carolina’s Saluda Mountains, is growing rapidly. And so is the Catholic population in the area, as local parishes swell with new members, both with [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 15, 2024
By CWR Staff on May 15, 2024 03:00 amCatholicism Not Flourishing in China – “In trying to hold the Church together, Pope Francis has compromised on religious freedom.” The Vatican’s Gamble With Beijing Is Costing China’s Catholics (The Atlantic) Big-Eyed Girls – “Father [...]
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