Saturday, June 3, 2023
In 1995 a ‘deeply embarrassed’ MLB owner apologized for event with anti-Catholic drag performers
| Report: Gänswein ordered to leave Vatican, return to home diocese without new role |
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| According to a German media report, Pope Francis is following a custom where former private secretaries of deceased popes do not remain in Rome. |
| Fort Worth bishop dismisses Carmelite mother superior in latest in Texas monastery-diocese dispute |
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| Bishop Michael Olson has issued a decree dismissing the reverend mother from the Order of Discalced Carmelites. |
| In 1995 a ‘deeply embarrassed’ MLB owner apologized for event with anti-Catholic drag performers |
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| Almost 28 years ago, the owner of the San Francisco Giants wrote a letter of apology to the Catholic League for hosting the drag group. |
| Florida bishops plead with DeSantis to spare life of death row inmate |
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| The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops appealed to the governor to grant a stay and commute convicted murderer Duane Owen’s sentence. |
| Group of faithful in Germany rejects Synodal Way: ‘We want to remain Catholic’ |
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| Birgit Kelle told EWTN Noticias that her association represents “many orthodox Catholics who are concerned about the Synodal Way and its decisions.” |
Friday, June 2, 2023
New ‘Padre Pio’ film is a human look at the famous saint
| New ‘Padre Pio’ film is a human look at the famous saint, filmmakers say |
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| Actor Shia LaBeouf says he leaned on the saint’s famous motto anytime things were difficult while making the film: Pray, hope, and don’t worry. |
| Pope Francis accepts resignation of Indian bishop cleared of rape charge in civil trial |
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| The Vatican did not indicate whether it carried out its own investigation into the accusations against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has denied the claims. |
| Cardinal Sarah to theology students: ‘The more we know the Lord the more we can love him’ |
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| At a Mass at the Angelicum in Rome, the Cardinal Robert Sarah spoke about the danger of division in the Church and the importance of prayer. |
| Vatican looking into $17 million transfer from U.S.-based charity to impact investing fund |
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| The Vatican is looking into the transfer of $17 million from the U.S. arm of a Church mission to an investment fund, according to the Associated Press. |
| Police arrest suspected mastermind of massacre at Rwandan Catholic parish in 1994 genocide |
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| Reuters reported that Fulgence Kayishema, one of the top suspects in the genocide, was arrested May 24 on a grape farm in South Africa. |
America’s religious leaders sharply divided over abortion
Online religious services appeal to many Americans, but going in person remains more popular
Pew Research Center: About a quarter of U.S. adults regularly watch religious services online; 21% use apps or websites to help with reading scripture.
Pew Research Center: About a quarter of U.S. adults regularly watch religious services online; 21% use apps or websites to help with reading scripture.
America’s religious leaders sharply divided over abortion, a year after Roe v Wade’s reversal
Associated Press: In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America’s religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways — some celebrating the state-level bans that have ensued, others angered that a conservative Christian cause has changed the law of the land in ways they consider oppressive.
Associated Press: In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America’s religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways — some celebrating the state-level bans that have ensued, others angered that a conservative Christian cause has changed the law of the land in ways they consider oppressive.
Dave Ramsey sued for $150 million by former fans who followed his timeshare exit advice
Religion News Service: The class-action lawsuit is the latest legal woe for Ramsey and his company.
Religion News Service: The class-action lawsuit is the latest legal woe for Ramsey and his company.
‘Insidious organization’: A reality TV family and the dangers of fundamentalism
The Guardian: The Amazon series “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” goes beyond the famous family into the fundamentalist ministry they represented.
The Guardian: The Amazon series “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” goes beyond the famous family into the fundamentalist ministry they represented.
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Nowhere Over the (Prideful) Rainbow
The central Mystery of the Faith, the Source of Reality
By Carl E. Olson on Jun 02, 2023 04:30 amReadings: • Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9 • Dan 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 • 2 Cor 13:11-13 • Jn 3:16-18 The Trinity, the Catechism states, is “the central mystery of Christian faith and life” (CCC 234). [...]
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is an incomplete triumph
By Steven D. Greydanus on Jun 01, 2023 11:13 pm“You’re like me.” That simple phrase, repeated a number of times in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is close to the film’s emotional center. Into the Spider-Verse is a layered movie brimming with ideas: It’s [...]
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Call to Synodality: Are we living through the 1970s again?
By Russell Shaw on Jun 01, 2023 10:36 pmPeople fretting over the pros and cons of synodality should seek enlightenment in the story of “shared responsibility” half a century ago. History doesn’t literally repeat itself, but what happened then suggests why we need [...]
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The Sacred Heart of Jesus leads us from misery to mercy
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jun 01, 2023 10:00 amDevotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is so central to a healthy biblical spirituality that we don’t acknowledge this divine love only once a year; thanks to the apparitions of Our Lord to St. [...]
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Nowhere Over the (Prideful) Rainbow
By Sean Fitzpatrick on May 31, 2023 10:00 pmWith June comes the Rainbow. You can’t miss it. In fact, you may not miss it. Despite how anyone feels about it, despite your religious views, despite your conservative affiliations, despite the tradition of sexual [...]
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Dodgers pitcher denounces team’s decision to honor anti-Catholic group: ‘God cannot be mocked’
By Catholic News Agency on May 31, 2023 04:45 pmDodger Stadium with downtown Los Angeles in the background. / Credit: Emma_Griffiths/Shutterstock Washington D.C., May 31, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA). A Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher became the latest Major League Baseball player to publicly condemn t... [...]
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On the fading faith of Anglicanism
By Andrew Petiprin on May 31, 2023 02:00 pmI’ve been thinking about two Anglicans named Charles lately. But before I talk about them, I want to say something about how and why I still talk occasionally about my former ecclesial group. When I [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for May 31, 2023
By CWR Staff on May 31, 2023 04:00 amDismantled and Demolished – “The left’s cultural revolution continues unabated as the St. Junipero vandals receive excessive leniency from Democrat prosecutors.” The Unpunished St. Junipero Vandals Are America’s Communist ‘Blue Guards’ (The Federalist) Abandoning Religion [...]
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The Visitation and the unborn: A post-Roe reflection
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on May 31, 2023 12:00 amThe Gospel for the Feast of the Visitation features the encounter of four people with each other: Elizabeth and her son John the Baptist, and Mary and her Son Jesus Christ. Approaching the first anniversary [...]
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Catholic alliances today and tomorrow: A response to Dr. Matthew Minerd
By Larry Chapp on May 30, 2023 08:56 pmI want to begin by thanking Dr. Matthew Minerd for his generous and thoughtful response to my recent article on who it is that controls the narrative of modern Catholicism. Dr. Minerd and I have [...]
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Pope Francis elevates Las Vegas to a metropolitan archdiocese
By Catholic News Agency on May 30, 2023 07:10 amThe Vatican has announced that Bishop George Leo Thomas will be the first metropolitan archbishop of Las Vegas. / Diocese of Helena Vatican City, May 30, 2023 / 06:10 am (CNA). Pope Francis created a new ecclesiastical province in the United St... [...]
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Saints by the Numbers: France
By Dawn Beutner on May 30, 2023 03:00 amOn May 30, the Church celebrates the feast of Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orléans is one of the most unusual saints that the Church has ever canonized. But she is also a member [...]
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Why was “Joan of Arc” Mark Twain’s favorite among all his many books?
By Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin on May 29, 2023 08:00 pmTo a certain extent, Twain's novel about the young, fifteenth-century French girl and Saint remains a puzzling act of devotion from a complicated man. [...]
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“The child is not the mere creature of the state…”
By Charles J. Russo on May 29, 2023 04:29 pmIn 1925, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names Jesus and Mary, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the right of parents in Oregon to have their children educated where they wished. Officials [...]
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Planned Parenthood, in turmoil, cuts staff while channeling funds for abortion
By Rita Diller on May 29, 2023 12:07 pmOur day was brightened here at American Life League when we received word that Planned Parenthood Federation of America is dramatically cutting staff at its national headquarters. After all, defense of innocent human life is [...]
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On Pentecost, Pope Francis says Holy Spirit can bring harmony to ‘a polarized Church’
By Catholic News Agency on May 29, 2023 08:00 amPope Francis presides over Pentecost Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on May 28, 2023. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, May 28, 2023 / 05:15 am (CNA). On the Solemnity of Pentecost, Pope Francis urged Catholics to invoke the Holy Spirit daily to b... [...]
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Men such as these: A Memorial Day reflection
By George Weigel on May 29, 2023 04:00 amIt was the Psalms, the Hebrew prophets, and the Gospels that inspired in these men a life-sustaining hope. [...]
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Mary for Today provides timeless insights for our deeply confused age
By Casey Chalk on May 28, 2023 10:45 pm“Can’t you see, this is me, I’m a woman,” sang musical superstar Tina Turner. None of the obituaries or commemorations of Ms. Turner, who died recently at age 83, seem to have any doubt that [...]
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The masks are coming off in Germany
By Birgit Kelle on May 27, 2023 09:21 pmFinally, the ZdK (Central Committee of German Catholics) is openly showing its true strategy: the gloves have come off in the battle for their declared goal of completely disempowering the bishops in the long term. [...]
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In pursuit of philosophical literacy: A review of Socrates’ Children
By Dr. Sam Nicholson on May 27, 2023 05:34 pmPhilosophy is notoriously difficult to introduce by means of a single book. The trouble is that while the discipline of philosophy is primarily concerned with abstract argumentation, its subject matter is inextricably bound to a [...]
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Pentecost and the Blessed Virgin Mary
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on May 27, 2023 04:00 amWe find ourselves at the conclusion of the novena to the Holy Spirit, in preparation for the great feast of Pentecost. What I would like to do today is to say a few words about [...]
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“Every truth is from the Holy Spirit”: On Pentecost Sunday
By Carl E. Olson on May 26, 2023 06:00 pmOn the Readings for Pentecost Sunday, May 20, 2018 [...]
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Morticians mystified by Sister Wilhelmina’s body: ‘Something special going on there’
By Catholic News Agency on May 26, 2023 02:45 pmA young man touches a religious statue to the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, on May 18, 2023, at the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles monastery in Gower, Missouri. / Used with permission. CNA Newsroom, May 26, 2023 / 13:45 pm ... [...]
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A deep dive: The Little Mermaid then and now
By Steven D. Greydanus on May 26, 2023 12:00 pmThere’s something profoundly melancholy about Disney returning, in its present state of creative exhaustion and corporate decadence, to The Little Mermaid—the nucleus from which the entire Disney renaissance exploded, in a way along with everything [...]
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