Rediscovering the memorable Saint Anthony of Padua
By Dawn Beutner on Jun 13, 2024 03:00 amCatholic saints sometimes become popular for strange reasons. Saint Nicholas, bishop of the early Church, may have inspired the legend of Saint Nick, but he bore little resemblance to today’s chubby Santa Claus. Saint Ambrose [...]
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The deep grammar of a(nother) papal faux pas
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jun 13, 2024 01:58 amIt turns out that “shitposting” is a technical term. There’s a great literature, approaching a whole subfield of academic communications studies, treating the practice of tossing cheap and easy provocations into digital space in order [...]
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Investigating the art of murder mysteries: An interview with Fiorella De Maria
By Rhonda Franklin Ortiz on Jun 12, 2024 06:11 pm“There is, however, another good work that is done by detective stories,” G. K. Chesterton wrote in 1901. “While it is the constant tendency of the Old Adam to rebel against so universal and automatic [...]
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Vexillology, horsefeathers, and “pro-choice” dishonesty
By George Weigel on Jun 12, 2024 04:00 amJust when you thought American public life couldn’t get more deranged, the Great Pine Tree Flag Indictment was handed down. I refer, of course, to the ravings of those who found themselves shocked, shocked
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, June 12, 2024
By CWR Staff on Jun 12, 2024 03:00 amHandmaid of Religion – ” Art as mimesis re-presents, makes present again, the sensible and intelligible forms of things in media other than their own, for the sensible and intelligible delight of an audience. ” On Beauty and [...]
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Did Pope Francis use that word again? And other Vatican confusion.
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jun 11, 2024 08:03 pmDid Pope Francis really just talk about troppa frociaggine again? To hear Italy’s ANSA wire service tell it, he did. This time, according to ANSA, Pope Francis said, “In the Vatican, there is an air [...]
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Pew study shows Biden and Trump supporters deeply divided on life and family issues
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 11, 2024 12:15 pmnull / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 10, 2024 / 18:15 pm (CNA). A new study examining some of the most contentious issues being considered by the electorate ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump h... [...]
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A truly Catholic approach to “gender studies”
By David Paul Deavel on Jun 11, 2024 05:00 amThough June is the month dedicated by many Catholics to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, post-Christians and “liberal” Christians have decided to promote “Pride Month,” a time of celebration and promotion of a very strange [...]
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Cardinals Müller and Schönborn: Ordination of women is impossible
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 11, 2024 01:45 amCardinals Christoph Schönborn and Gerhard Ludwig Müller. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Jun 10, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA). Shortly after Pope Francis opposed the possibility of an ordained female diaconate, two German-speaking cardinals ... [...]
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Continued errors are costing the Vatican in late innings
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jun 10, 2024 06:22 pmIn a word: Nothing. In another: Everything. Bad for business, bad for baseball There are gambling scandals, for example, one of which has seen a player get the boot and one of which hasn’t. 24-year-old [...]
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Archbishop warns of religious freedom erosion in Australia, calls for ‘saints for our time’
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 10, 2024 10:00 amArchbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, Australia. / Credit: EWTN News CNA Newsroom, Jun 10, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney has raised the alarm over Australia’s incremental erosion of religious freedom in health care, ... [...]
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Twelve cities and the story of early Christian evangelization
By Paul Senz on Jun 10, 2024 12:14 amMany of the most important figures from centuries and millennia past are distinguished by the cities in which they lived: Clement of Alexandria, Augustine of Hippo, Irenaeus of Lyons, Cyril of Jerusalem, and John of [...]
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Call to Conversion and Holiness
By Eduardo Echeverria on Jun 09, 2024 10:52 pmNote: Read Part 1 of this essay: “The Triumph of the Therapeutic Mentality” (June 6, 2024). Call to Conversion and Holiness Fr. James Martin calls all Christians to conversion. He says, “What I mean by conversion is [...]
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Vindicating the Filioque is an exhaustive study with an ecumenical focus
By Piers Shepherd on Jun 09, 2024 01:34 amThe filioque is one of the oldest theological controversies in the history of Christianity. Catholics of the Latin rite, praying the Creed during Mass, say the following words: Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem [...]
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‘Jesus Thirsts’ film becomes second highest-grossing documentary of 2024 so far
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 08, 2024 05:00 pmDue to popular demand, "Jesus Thirsts: The Miracle of the Eucharist" will be shown in theaters again June 18-19, 2024. / Credit: Jesus Thirsts: The Miracle of the Eucharist CNA Staff, Jun 8, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The new film “Jesus ... [...]
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Beth Gibbons, Gorecki, and the darkness of faith
By Andrew Petiprin on Jun 07, 2024 10:09 pmA few years ago, Beth Gibbons decided to learn Polish. That is, she learned enough Polish to perform Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 (“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”) with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki. As [...]
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Dutch bishop: Fiducia Supplicans too much ‘in tune with zeitgeist’
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 07, 2024 03:45 pmBishop Rob Mutsaerts, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands. / Credit: Danny Gerrits/wikiportret.nl via Wikimedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0) CNA Newsroom, Jun 7, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). A Dutch bishop has described the Vati... [...]
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Cause for hope in new data on Eucharistic faith?
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jun 13, 2024 06:08 pmIn 1992, I commissioned the first public opinion poll through George Gallup on belief in the Holy Eucharist, revealing that fewer than 30% of practicing Catholics held to the full truth of our Eucharistic faith. [...]
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