Misunderstanding the Armenian Martyrs
By Dawn Beutner on Jun 11, 2021 03:40 amIt’s a safe bet that the martyrdom of Blessed Ignazio Maloyan will not be publicly remembered in Turkey this year. After all, on April 24, 2021, when President Joe Biden dared to use the word [...]
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The Case for a Global Ban on Surrogacy
By Sister Renée Mirkes on Jun 11, 2021 12:40 amThe surrogacy industry got its start based on the same principles of bodily autonomy and privacy that piloted Roe v. Wade and abortion—what the surrogate or egg donor does with her own body is her [...]
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Cardinal Kasper ‘very worried’ about German Church’s ‘Synodal Way’
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 10, 2021 05:35 amCardinal Walter Kasper. / CNA/Bohumil Petrik. Passau, Germany, Jun 10, 2021 / 03:35 am (CNA). An influential theologian considered to be close to Pope Francis has said that he is “very worried” about the German Catholic Church’s controversial “S... [...]
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The Lie of the Wokeing Dead
By William Kilpatrick on Jun 10, 2021 02:59 am“The Wokeing Dead.” It’s not simply a play on words. The term actually captures the essence of the woke movement. Although the woke people consider themselves to be in tune with the latest ideas, the [...]
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New EWTN miniseries explores true death with dignity
By Connor Malloy on Jun 10, 2021 02:41 amEWTN west coast operations manager James Day was reading Nicolas Diat’s A Time to Die while his father-in-law, Todd, was losing his battle with multiple myeloma. It was March 2020. “The new health restrictions at [...]
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Notre Dame university website celebrates ‘Pride Month’
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 09, 2021 01:02 pmUniversity of Notre Dame / Peter Zelasko/CNA Washington D.C., Jun 9, 2021 / 11:02 am (CNA). The website of the University of Notre Dame has a feature post celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride on its diversity and inclusion page this month. “Pride Month... [...]
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Thirty years of Poland
By George Weigel on Jun 09, 2021 03:01 amIt was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland in June 1991. Looking back on it, I’m reminded of something H.L. Mencken wrote of a similarly transformative [...]
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Cardinal Pell: I wasn’t sure “justice and respect for evidence would prevail”
By Paul Senz on Jun 09, 2021 02:21 amA remarkable drama played out on the world stage, via the Australian justice system, in 2019 and 2020, as Cardinal George Pell fought accusations of historical sexual abuse—described by Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., as “totally [...]
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The Astronomer, the Physicist, and Worlds Colliding
By John Paul Meenan on Jun 08, 2021 09:29 amWhat have ancient Greek philosophy, a prophecy of Christ and COVID in common, and might this commonality be used to find common ground? For people once on familiar speaking terms are now no longer, as [...]
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New priest blesses his sister, a nun: ‘It’s been a real privilege and a joy’
By CNA Daily News on Jun 07, 2021 07:06 pmNew York City, N.Y., Jun 7, 2021 / 16:00 pm It is customary for a newly-ordained priest to impart a first blessing. For Father Matthew Breslin, who was ordained May 29, his first blessing was [...]
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From “Eucharistic irreverence” to “Eucharistic amazement”
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jun 07, 2021 05:00 amEditor’s note: The following lecture was delivered on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi (June 6, 2021) at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross to launch the Year of the Eucharist for the Archdiocese of Boston. [...]
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An inspiring call to arms during a grim and challenging time
By Piers Shepherd on Jun 07, 2021 02:21 amIt is easy for a Catholic to feel discouraged in our times. The culture appears to have decisively turned against Christian values and shows signs of constantly getting worse. In this context, Austin Ruse’s new [...]
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Sr. Maria Laura Mainetti: Nun stabbed to death by three teenage girls is beatified
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 06, 2021 01:00 pmSister Maria Laura Mainetti. Public domain. Chiavenna, Italy, Jun 6, 2021 / 11:00 am (CNA). An Italian nun who was stabbed to death by three teenage girls was beatified on Sunday, after Pope Francis declared her a martyr, killed “in hatred of th... [...]
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The pluribus and the unum
By James Kalb on Jun 06, 2021 10:34 amGovernment is difficult. How can anyone run other people’s lives when he likely has trouble running his own? A basic difficulty is the old problem of the one and the many. In philosophy that problem [...]
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Beautiful Catholic picture books for your children or godchildren
By Rachel Hoover on Jun 06, 2021 12:22 amWhen my youngest brother was born, the hospital signed him up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program in which children receive free books in the mail from birth until age five. This is a [...]
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