When being nice isn’t enough: A review of The Church in the Flesh
By Casey Chalk on Jul 25, 2024 10:41 pmA Catholic friend of mine recently had a supervisor who criticized him for his tendency to disregard underperforming colleagues with a frankness others found hurtful or embarrassing. “He’s a Christian,” the supervisor said. “He’s supposed [...]
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5 keys to better understand the encyclical Humanae Vitae
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 25, 2024 05:30 pmSt. Paul VI. / Credit: Catholic News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 25, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA). On July 25, 1968, St. Paul VI published Humanae Vitae, an encyclical on the regulation of birth and the dangers ... [...]
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Why I signed “An Open Letter from the Americas to Pope Francis”
By Larry Chapp on Jul 25, 2024 12:52 amOn July 15th, an open letter to Pope Francis was released which asked him not to allow any further restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass (TLM). Titled “An Open Letter from the Americas to Pope [...]
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What the universal call to holiness entails
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jul 25, 2024 12:07 amWhy aren’t we holy? God, in fact, wills that we become holy: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Thess 4:3). So why aren’t we? The problem surely does not lie with [...]
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Argentina’s primatial see moves from Buenos Aires: What does the change entail?
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 24, 2024 07:30 pmBuenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral. / Credit: Carolina Jaramillo/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 24, 2024 / 12:30 pm (CNA). Following Pope Francis’ decision to move the primatial see of Argentina — until now in Buenos Aires — to Santiago de... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, July 24, 2024
By CWR Staff on Jul 24, 2024 03:00 amDouble Effect –“It is permissible for Catholics to choose the lesser of evils. When they do so, their choice gets accounted for as avoiding the greater evil, not favoring the evil that is lesser.” Reason [...]
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An invitation to mine and treasure the perfect summer read
By Sean Fitzpatrick on Jul 23, 2024 09:27 pmIf you haven’t read King Solomon’s Mines—written by Henry Rider Haggard in 1885—you can make this a summer to remember by reading it for the first time. There is nothing quite like King Solomon’s Mines, and [...]
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Christian watchdog calls on U.S. to recognize persecution of Christians in Nigeria
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 23, 2024 02:45 pmA Christian woman stands next to a clothesline while taking refuge in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp at the Pilot Primary School after their houses were burnt as a result of religious strife in Mangu on Feb. 2, 2024, following weeks ... [...]
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Opinion: Rethinking Natural Family Planning
By Kevin Tierney on Jul 23, 2024 04:00 amThis is “NFP Week” (July 21st-27th), which means there will inevitably be a lot of online discourse and discussion about Natural Family Planning (NFP), contraception, and how humans, in a limited capacity, interact with the [...]
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Eucharistic Affirmations
By CWR Contributors on Jul 22, 2024 09:35 pmEditor’s note: Earlier this month, I interviewed Dr. Kevin A. McMahon, editor of Exploring the World’s Foundation in Christ: An Introduction to the Writings and Thought of Donald J. Keefe, S.J., published recently by Ignatius Press. [...]
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Young adults defying secularism trend in the Church in Canada
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 22, 2024 02:00 pmA recent Cardus study says young Catholics are twice as likely as their senior counterparts to attend religious services at least once a month. / Credit: Elijah Bautista Vancouver, Canada, Jul 22, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). A recent Cardus study sa... [...]
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Updated: California runs roughshod over parental rights
By Charles J. Russo on Jul 21, 2024 10:16 pmOn July 15, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom of California signed the radical progressive law Assembly Bill 2955 into effect. As I discussed in an earlier column, the deceptively named “Support Academic Futures and Educator Today’s Youth [...]
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Joe Biden announces he will not seek reelection in 2024 presidential race
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 21, 2024 01:15 pmPresident Joe Biden waves on stage during the Vote To Live Properity Summit at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 16, 2024. / Credit: KENT NISHIMURA/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 21, 2024 / 14:15 ... [...]
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“Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock …”
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 21, 2024 01:00 amOn the Readings for Sunday, July 22, 2018. [...]
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The searing power of marriage
By Conor Dugan on Jul 20, 2024 11:38 pmWhile it may seem implausible, the funniest book of recent memory is a memoir by a man whose wife asks him for a divorce because she’s fallen in love with another man. It is also [...]
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Eucharistic congress ‘a moment of unity’ for the U.S. Church, Bishop Cozzens says
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 20, 2024 01:20 pmBishop Andrew Cozzens, who spearheaded the National Eucharistic Revival and congress taking place in Indianapolis from July 17-21, 2024, takes questions from the media. / Credit: Zelda Caldwell Indianapolis, Ind., Jul 20, 2024 / 14:20 pm (CNA).... [...]
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The tyranny of in vitro fertilization
By Sister Renée Mirkes on Jul 19, 2024 07:06 pmDr. René Frydman is best known by French citizens as the “medical father” of their first in vitro fertilization baby (1982). Medical researchers, on the other hand, laud him for his quadruple decades of pioneering [...]
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Kierkegaard, Catholicism, and the question of religious knowledge
By Matthew Becklo on Jul 19, 2024 06:23 pmA Presbyterian church down the road from where I live—one hooked, as many churches are, to posting one-liners on its marquee—recently put up a quotation that irked me the more I had to drive by [...]
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Pro-life roundup: Trump says abortion ‘will never be a federal issue again’
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 19, 2024 12:52 pmRepublican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks after officially accepting the Republican presidential nomination on stage on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024, in Milw... [...]
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