By Peter M.J.
Stravinskas on Dec 04, 2020 08:00 am
Some preliminary considerations The context for Our Lady’s canticle of praise,
overall, is the Gospel according to St. Luke and, more specifically, within his
Infancy Narrative. Only Matthew and Luke offer a “pre-history” to the [...]
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By Catholic News
Agency on Dec 04, 2020 01:40 am
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 3, 2020 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- Two months since his
fall from grace, Cardinal Angelo Becciu remains in the news, and out of any future
papal conclave. And despite the disgraced [...]
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By Piers Shepherd on
Dec 03, 2020 08:02 pm
There exists a stereotypical image of the American South as a militantly
Protestant and strongly anti-Catholic environment. Gracjan Kraszewski’s
fascinating book Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War South
should do much to [...]
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By Larry Chapp on Dec
03, 2020 03:31 pm
I was reading an article the other day about an ongoing miracle in Italy that
dates back to 1336. In December of that year a young, pregnant woman
named Egidia Mathis was walking home at night [...]
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By Russell Shaw on Dec
03, 2020 01:59 pm
A little over two centuries ago—in 1810, to be precise—a brave, devout woman
named Elizabeth Ann Seton launched two tiny schools, an academy and a free
school. The site was a former farmhouse in rural [...]
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By James Kalb on Dec
02, 2020 10:45 pm
Many people have noted that “woke” ideology, which views inequality as an
intolerable evil caused by pervasive racism, sexism, homophobia, and the like,
has a religious quality: it defines good and evil, explains life and [...]
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By Fr. Charles Fox on
Dec 02, 2020 08:48 pm
The Season of Advent challenges us to “prepare the way of the Lord” and to
“make straight his paths.” The Sacrament of Penance is especially important as
a way to bring order into our hearts [...]
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By Catholic News
Agency on Dec 02, 2020 05:39 pm
CNA Staff, Dec 2, 2020 / 09:40 am (CNA).- Investigation into the history of
sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Colorado has found nine diocesan priests
with “substantiated” sexual abuse allegations involving 70 more underage [...]
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By George Weigel on
Dec 02, 2020 03:01 am
How bad a year has it been? Let me not count the ways. Good books can hearten
us in 2021 and beyond, though. Herewith, then, some suggestions for
Christmastide book-giving: Prison Journal, Volume 1, by [...]
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By Filip Mazurczak on
Dec 01, 2020 04:34 pm
On Saturday, Pope Francis created thirteen cardinals in a consistory, nine of
whom will be eligible to vote in a future conclave. Of these, two are officials
of the Roman curia while just two others [...]
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By Bishop Robert
Barron on Dec 01, 2020 04:21 pm
We will never be adequately prepared for the coming of the Savior unless and
until we feel in our bones that there is something we need to be saved from. If
we don’t require salvation, [...]
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By Catholic News
Agency on Dec 01, 2020 01:37 am
CNA Staff, Nov 30, 2020 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- Cardinal George Pell has spoken of
his surprise at the apparent extent of “criminality” involved in recent Vatican
financial scandals. Speaking in an interview with Associated [...]
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By Casey Chalk on Nov
30, 2020 07:38 pm
I recently started looking into nihilism… but then I realised it was pointless.
For some, that joke is enough to expose the absurdity and illogic of a
philosophy that holds that there is no meaning [...]
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By Catholic News
Agency on Nov 30, 2020 02:32 pm
Rome Newsroom, Nov 30, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- The French Council of State has
ruled that a proposed 30-person limit on Masses and other forms of public
worship is a “disproportionate” government measure and must [...]
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By Dale Ahlquist on
Nov 30, 2020 02:05 am
In 1908, two of G.K. Chesterton’s most famous books were published, almost
back-to-back. The first was the novel The Man Who Was Thursday, about a group
of anarchists who are actively trying to undermine everything [...]
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By Deborah Savage, PhD
on Nov 29, 2020 09:08 pm
Anyone wondering if man is capable of reason need look no further than the
self-evident fact that he desires to understand. Indeed, he is frustrated when
understanding eludes him. In those moments, he experiences what [...]
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By Catholic News
Agency on Nov 29, 2020 02:06 am
CNA Staff, Nov 28, 2020 / 09:07 pm (CNA).- As surging COVID-19 cases lead to
new restrictions in the San Francisco area, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
said the treatment of churches is discriminatory and violates the [...]
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By Fr. Matthew
MacDonald on Nov 29, 2020 01:24 am
Everyone shall remember 2020 as a year of chaos and upheaval, both in the
Church and the world. Recent current events have moved many people, especially
Catholics, to look for answers that make sense of [...]
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By Dr. Randall B.
Smith on Nov 28, 2020 08:17 pm
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part essay. Read Part One here.
One sometimes hears preachers exhort their congregations to enter into a
“relationship” with God. I have no desire to diminish [...]
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By Catholic News
Agency on Nov 28, 2020 07:50 pm
Denver Newsroom, Nov 28, 2020 / 04:35 pm (CNA).- Wry jokes and memes about the
decided awfulness of the year 2020 – with the pandemic, ensuing lockdowns and
economic distress, as well as civil unrest [...]
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By Robert R. Reilly on
Nov 27, 2020 09:14 pm
In the fourth century, St. Cyril of Jerusalem asked of those receiving
Communion: Tell me, if anyone gave you grains of gold, would you not hold them
with all care taking heed lest you should [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on
Nov 27, 2020 05:00 pm
On the Readings for Sunday, December 3, 2017, the First Sunday of Advent [...]
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By James Baresel on Nov 27, 2020 04:54 pm
Perhaps the second best-known martyrdom in the history of the Anglophone world
is St. Thomas Becket, killed in Canterbury Cathedral during Vespers at the
hands of four knights motivated by King Henry II of England’s [...]
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