Sharing the love of Christ by following the example of Saint Nicholas
By Susan Ciancio on Dec 06, 2024 03:00 amToday, we celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas. Families around the country remember this great saint by leaving out shoes the night before and filling them with treats. They do this because legend tells us [...]
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This is not the Mary you’ve known or need to know
By Nick Olszyk on Dec 05, 2024 07:00 pmFCC Rating: TV-14 USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 1/2 reel out of 5 reels When I first heard that famed televangelist Joel Osteen was making a movie about the Mother of God, [...]
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Bible boom: Why are people buying so many Bibles?
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 05, 2024 04:00 pmnull / Credit: joshimerbin/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Is the Bible — already the most widely printed book of all time — having a moment?As recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, Bible sales — across a variety o... [...]
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A dreary year draws to a weary end in England
By Joanna Bogle on Dec 05, 2024 03:07 pmPrince William, heir to the British throne, has gone on record as describing 2024 as a “brutal” year. He was speaking, of course, of both his father and his wife being diagnosed with cancer. King [...]
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Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession
By Sean Fitzpatrick on Dec 04, 2024 11:27 pmMuch ink has been spilled by Catholics over the new film Conclave—and not by way of praise. Directed by Edward Berger, it is a piece of anti-Catholic propaganda posing as a film—and it is very [...]
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Supreme Court seems skeptical of claim that Tennessee’s transgender law is discriminatory
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 04, 2024 05:10 pmOpponents of transgender treatments on children gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 4, 2024, as justices hear oral arguments for a challenge to a Tennessee law banning transgender surgeries and hormone... [...]
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“Luce,” mascot of dumbed-down Catholicism
By George Weigel on Dec 04, 2024 04:00 amDuring his years as professor of fundamental theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella was often cited by American seminarians as their favorite professor – an exponent of dynamic orthodoxy whose engaging classroom [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, December 4, 2024
By CWR Staff on Dec 04, 2024 03:00 amVatican II’s Key Document on the Nature of Church Authority – “The Second Vatican Council document articulates the proper relationship between papal authority and the authority of bishops, individually and collectively.” In the Era of [...]
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Franciscan monastery in Aleppo attacked; friars call for peace
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 03, 2024 08:05 pmOn Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, the Franciscan complex of the Terra Santa College in Aleppo was hit by a strike. No casualties were reported but panic has reportedly spread among the people. / Credit: Custody of the Holy Land ACI MENA, Dec 3, 2024 / 1... [...]
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The enduring faith of long-suffering Catholics in Albania
By R. Cavanaugh on Dec 03, 2024 03:51 pmAlbanian Catholics are descendents of those who embraced the Faith in the early centuries A.D. And they held to the Faith through 400 years of Ottoman rule and, more recently, an extreme totalitarian regime that [...]
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Assessing and resisting the continued growth of the Culture of Death
By Mark Bradford on Dec 03, 2024 02:19 pmThreats to human life are constantly in the news these days. We have wars abroad and shootings in our cities, schools, and shopping malls. Added to that is the ongoing holocaust of abortion and the [...]
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Republicans introduce bill to define ‘male’ and ‘female’ based on biological differences
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 02, 2024 07:30 pmnull / Credit: Katya Moon/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 2, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Several Republican lawmakers introduced legislation to clarify that the terms “male,” “female,” and “sex,” among others, refer to the biological dis... [..]
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MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing
By James Kalb on Dec 02, 2024 09:52 amProgressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge [...]
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5 Italians to be elevated as cardinals by Pope Francis at Dec. 7 consistory
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 01, 2024 04:30 pmPope Francis creates 21 new cardinals from across the world at a consistory in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 30, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 1, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). Five Italians have been chosen by Pope Francis to become ca... [...]
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The Ninth Circuit upholds parental rights in religious education
By Charles J. Russo on Dec 01, 2024 03:00 amThe Ninth Circuit, in Loffman v. California Department of Education unanimously handed down a strong rebuke to the California Department of Education and Los Angeles Unified School District in a dispute over parental free exercise rights [...]
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Advent orients us to the heart of the Nativity
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 30, 2024 06:00 pmReadings: • Jer 33:14-16 • Ps 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 • 1 Thes 3:12-4:2 • Lk 21:25-28, 34-36 “We preach not one advent only of Christ,” wrote St. Cyril of Jerusalem in the fourth century, [...]
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Pope Francis proposes joint Catholic-Orthodox celebration of Nicaea anniversary
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 30, 2024 04:10 pmPope Francis meets with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Vatican, Oct. 4, 2021. / Vatican Media. Rome Newsroom, Nov 30, 2024 / 08:10 am (CNA). Pope Francis has proposed celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea... [...]
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Getting Advent right
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Nov 30, 2024 04:00 amAdvent begins December 1st this year, making it almost the shortest Advent one can have. If I had to offer one piece of advice to Catholics, it’s getting Advent right. Advent is a time of [...]
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The past, present, and future of Advent
By David Paul Deavel on Nov 30, 2024 01:00 amFor some Christians, Advent is simply an aid to memory. It is certainly that. It is also much more. For Advent is a season not only of remembering what happened long ago in order to [...]
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Catholic bishops in UK express dismay after Parliament passes assisted suicide bill
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 29, 2024 11:20 amBishop John Sherrington, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and Lead Bishop for Life Issues said that he hopes and prays the Bill might be rejected at a later stage in the legislative process. / Credit: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)... [...]
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