The Sins of the Synod
By Jayd Henricks on Sep 26, 2024 11:07 pmA friend recently sent me a document from the Vatican that at first I thought was a parody of the Synod on Synodality. It was too silly to be serious, so I thought. By now, however, I [...]
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Historical ‘mother parish’ seeks to shore up centuries-old foundations
By Matthew Balan on Sep 26, 2024 10:01 pmA former Jesuit mission church that is considered the mother church of the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware—and connects it with the histories of three neighboring American archdioceses—is in desperate need of support, both figuratively and [...]
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Vatican secretary of state warns of Europe’s low birth rates, ‘demographic winter’
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 26, 2024 03:55 pmVatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin attends a plenary session during the Summit on Peace in Ukraine on June 16, 2024. / Credit: URS FLUEELER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Sep 26, 2024 / 16:55 pm (CNA). Cardinal Pietro Paro... [...]
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Pew survey in U.S. and Latin America gauges views on Church teachings, popularity of Pope Francis
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 26, 2024 09:10 amnull / Credit: Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 26, 2024 / 10:10 am (CNA). The Pew Research Center has released the results of a survey of how Catholics in the United States and six Latin American countries feel th... [...]
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Make everything a sacrifice to sanctify the world
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Sep 26, 2024 04:00 am“Make everything you can a sacrifice.”—The Angel of Portugal to the three Fatima children Sacrifice stands before us as the hidden key to life. The word itself may sound frightening, conjuring images of blood, destruction [...]
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American Life League exposes network illegally importing abortion pills
By Kathy Schiffer on Sep 25, 2024 12:50 pmA new research project from the American Life League reveals that despite limitations imposed in some states, abortion regulations have not and will not work to stop abortion pills from being sold. The proof is [...]
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Keeping (or making) Catholic education great
By George Weigel on Sep 25, 2024 04:00 amAccording to the Vatican yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio, there are north of 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world today. They share certain characteristics and attributes. But I doubt that there is any other among them who [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, September 25, 2024
By CWR Staff on Sep 25, 2024 03:00 amHow Many Popesplainers Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? – “Pope Francis recently added yet another item to the long list of doctrinally problematic statements he has issued through the course of his [...]
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On being alone in the presence of another
By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Sep 24, 2024 10:52 pmPope John Paul II often gratefully spoke of an “ecumenical gift exchange.” In that spirit, the rector of my Anglican boyhood parish, knowing of my interests in both psychology and theology, gave me books by [...]
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The brave priests who should also be known as martyrs of Korea
By Dawn Beutner on Sep 24, 2024 10:00 amOn September 20, the Catholic Church remembers 103 men, women, and children who died as martyrs in Korea. These canonized saints, mostly Koreans but also French missionaries, died during waves of anti-Catholic persecution by Korean [...]
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“If I can make a difference, anyone can”: An interview with Coach Joe Kennedy
By Jim Graves on Sep 24, 2024 04:00 amAverage Joe, a new film from the director and producers of God’s Not Dead and the producers of The Blind, will open in theaters October 11. It stars Eric Close (American Sniper, Nashville) and tells [...]
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Ahead of synod, prominent priests publish on ‘LGBTQ issues’
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 23, 2024 04:50 pmFather Timothy Radcliffe told the Synod on Synodality delegates that the time before the 2024 assembly “will be probably the most fertile time of the whole synod, the time of germination.” / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Sep 23, 2024 / 13... [...]
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Monks republish books from a Benedictine priest, writer, and sculptor
By Julian Kwasniewski on Sep 23, 2024 03:01 pmOne of my favorite spiritual authors is the Benedictine writer Dom Hubert van Zeller (1905-84). His simultaneous humor and realism, along with brevity, make his work refreshing and accessible. “In writing on this and that [...]
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Pope Francis names consultants to Vatican doctrine office, including controversial theologian
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 23, 2024 10:45 amPope Francis meets with members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 23, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis has named 28 new consultors to the Vatica... [...]
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“Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me…”
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Sep 22, 2024 05:29 pmIn today’s Gospel, Jesus takes a little child and, counterposing him to his childish disciples, tells them: “Whoever receives a little child like this receives me and receives not me but Him who sent me…” [..]
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The Stigmata of St. Francis and St. Paul’s Theology of the Cross
By Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM., Cap. on Sep 22, 2024 02:00 pmEditor’s note: The following talk on the Stigmata of St. Francis was given recently at the Marked With the Wounds of Christ An Academic Conference on the Stigmatization of St. Francis at Franciscan University of [...]
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Saving Dante from the Classicists
By Joshua Hren on Sep 21, 2024 12:00 pmThrough this labor-of-love translation, Jason Baxter makes the case for a new take on the Inferno: here is not some dense and heady masterpiece, an unread but highly-regarded doorstopper, or a leather-bound-coffee-table-
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By embracing Christ’s Passion, we overcome our passions
By Carl E. Olson on Sep 21, 2024 03:00 amReadings: • Wis 2:12, 17-20 • Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8 • Jas 3:16-4:3 • Mk 9:30-37 Three of the greatest temptations known to man are lust for power, pursuit of illicit pleasure, and [...]
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Delaware governor vetoes physician-assisted suicide bill
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 20, 2024 05:09 pmnull / Credit: Video_Creative/Shutterstock Baltimore, Md., Sep 20, 2024 / 18:09 pm (CNA). The governor of Delaware, John Carney, used his executive power on Friday to veto a bill that would have legalized euthanasia in the First State.Carney, t... [...]
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A Year of Prayer, a Year of Action
By Matthew Becklo on Sep 20, 2024 01:57 pmIn advance of the Jubilee Year of 2025, Pope Francis declared 2024 a Year of Prayer—a time “dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer in personal life, in the life of the [...]
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is successful, formulaic, and dull
By Sean Fitzpatrick on Sep 19, 2024 07:38 pmThe Halloween season seems to creep in earlier every year, heralded this September by a long-anticipated film from the once-visionary director, Tim Burton: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. To call this movie “long-anticipated” also refers to the fact that it’s [...]
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Lamenting the overheated political rhetoric of our time
By Russell Shaw on Sep 19, 2024 07:13 pm“A man that’d expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic, but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer and [...]
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The extraordinarily blue-collar life of a stigmatist and Servant of God
By Rob Marco on Sep 19, 2024 12:54 amA few years ago, while at Thanksgiving dinner at my sister-in-law’s home, my wife and I were introduced to a guest who was joining us by the name of Peter Houle. “That’s funny,” I told [...]
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Faith by moonlight: Christian hope for the healing of eating disorders
By Sara S. Frear, PhD on Sep 18, 2024 09:06 pmEating disorders are a prevalent illness of the modern age and in recent decades the number of sufferers has increased globally. The majority are women but growing numbers of men have joined their ranks.1 Variants of [...]
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