Gravity, Gravitas, and Grave Matters

Homelands and social doctrines

By George Weigel on Jun 20, 2018 03:01 am
St. John Paul II’s recognition of the dynamics of post-Cold War economies was not drawn from his Polish experience, but from intense conversations with western [...]
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Gravity, Gravitas, and Grave Matters

By James Casper on Jun 19, 2018 03:28 pm
As the Japanese novelist Shusako Endo noted, people often ponder where they were born, a circumstance over which they had no control, while giving little [...]
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Immigration, moral authority, and the “order of love”

By Philip Primeau on Jun 19, 2018 12:03 pm
The question of immigration is complicated enough under the best circumstances. But the problem of mass migration, much of it illegal, in a globalized world [...]
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Questions on sexuality loom large ahead of youth synod

By Catholic News Agency on Jun 19, 2018 11:50 am
The “instrumentum laboris” for the Oct. 3-28 Synod of Bishops on “Young People, the Faith and the Discernment of Vocation" highlights how many young people, [...]
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Two new books explore Pope St. John Paul II’s moral convictions, intellectual legacy

By Filip Mazurczak on Jun 18, 2018 01:48 pm
A Pope and a President by Paul Kengor and Wind From Heaven by Monika Jablonska delve into many unknown or overlooked aspects of John Paul’s [...]
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Synodality vs. Synodality

By Christopher R. Altieri on Jun 17, 2018 05:23 pm
As Pope Francis' uneven record indicates, collegiality and synodality are great — until one tries to do something with them. [...]
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This Father’s Day: Vow to be a Committed Catholic Father

By Matthew James Christoff on Jun 17, 2018 03:01 am
While there are numerous ways to categorize and analyze Catholic fatherhood, one way is to consider how Catholic men live out truth and mercy as [...]
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Providence, Prosperity, and Purpose

By Carl E. Olson on Jun 16, 2018 09:00 am
On the Readings for Sunday, June 17, 2018 [...]
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Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk: Russian invasion of Ukraine is a ‘silent war’

By Catholic News Agency on Jun 15, 2018 04:02 pm
“We do not just need to pray for reconciliation. We need to do effective acts of reconciliation. This is crucial,” Shevchuk said, adding that “reconciliation [...]
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Joyce Kilmer, John Paul II, and the artistic vocation

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jun 15, 2018 03:54 pm
All who reverence the Bible, but especially Christians, ought to have a deep appreciation for words and for those who take words and give them [...]
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