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Friday, March 4, 2022

The religious roots of Ukrainian resistance

Lent and the Sacraments: Plumbing the effective signs of divine grace and life

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Mar 03, 2022 10:09 pm
We should recall that the original purpose of the Season of Lent was the proximate preparation of catechumens for the reception of the sacraments of initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist) at the Easter Vigil Liturgy. With [...]
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How the Ukraine conflict is reshaping relations between Churches

By Catholic News Agency on Mar 03, 2022 04:20 pm
St. Sophia’s Cathedral in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. / Ivan Sedlovskyi via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Rome Newsroom, Mar 3, 2022 / 07:20 am (CNA). Could St. Sophia’s Cathedral in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv be a Russian military target? Rumors o... [...]
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The religious roots of Ukrainian resistance

By George Weigel on Mar 03, 2022 12:54 pm
As chilling as morally serious people find Vladimir Putin, his evident pleasure in humiliating his subordinates, and his wanton cruelty in brutalizing those who defy him (be they domestic opponents or countries that refuse to [...]
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Caped crusaders and the common good

By Steven D. Greydanus on Mar 03, 2022 10:00 am
When someone in Matt Reeves’ new film The Batman refers to Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight as “Zorro,” it’s a low-key gag with a number of layers. A quippy, Whedonesque pop-culture name check on the surface, [...]
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Spiritual combat and heavenly reward

By Fr. Charles Fox on Mar 02, 2022 08:25 pm
The Collect of the Mass for Ash Wednesday is among the most memorable and powerful in the Roman Missal: Grant, O Lord, that we may begin with holy fasting this campaign of Christian service, so [...]
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Extra, extra! News and tidings, March 2, 2022

By CWR Staff on Mar 02, 2022 04:16 pm
Religious implications: “There are at least three clearly religious dimensions to this conflict that, so far, have largely been overlooked in most analysis.” With war in Ukraine, the global religious landscape is destined to shift [...]
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Bishops ask Pope Francis to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to Immaculate Heart of Mary

By Catholic News Agency on Mar 02, 2022 11:15 am
Immaculate Heart of Mary. / Zvonimir Atletic via www.shutterstock.com. Rome Newsroom, Mar 2, 2022 / 09:15 am (CNA). Ukraine’s Latin Rite Catholic bishops have asked Pope Francis to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.I... [...]
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The message of the ashes

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Mar 02, 2022 05:00 am
What is this strange fascination with ashes? By day’s end, in this Church of the Holy Innocents three blocks north of Macy’s in Midtown Manhattan, priests will have imposed ashes on the foreheads of thousands [...]
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Lent, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the liberating lightness of truth 

By George Weigel on Mar 02, 2022 03:22 am
If you’ve not been in the Vatican basilica on February 22, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, by all means put that on your bucket list. Not only is February 22 the day [...]
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Who are the 13 Catholic senators who voted for ‘shameful’ pro-abortion bill?

By Catholic News Agency on Mar 01, 2022 01:35 pm
Photo illustration. / Shutterstock Washington D.C., Mar 1, 2022 / 10:35 am (CNA). Thirteen Catholic lawmakers in the U.S. Senate voted Monday in favor of a failed attempt to pass a sweeping new abortion law that threatened to override states’ p... [...]
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Impending Russian attack on the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Kyiv?

By George Weigel on Mar 01, 2022 01:19 pm
Ukrainian intelligence reports suggest that Russian forces may deliberately target and attempt to destroy Saint Sophia, the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom, in downtown Kyiv. If such an attack took place, it would be an attack [...]
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How Saints Die is edifying and challenging Lenten reading

By Dale Ahlquist on Mar 01, 2022 12:00 pm
I know you are looking for good Lenten reading. I’ve got a great recommendation. How Saints Die: 100 Stories of Hope by Fr. Antonio Maria Sicari (Ignatius, 2021). Okay, I had the same reaction you [...]
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The “Revolution of Dignity” lives – and defends Itself

By George Weigel on Feb 28, 2022 12:47 pm
Two sets of images, widely circulated online over the weekend of 26-27 February, graphically illustrate the difference between the forces now locked in combat – military combat and moral combat – in Ukraine. In one [...]
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Ukrainian Catholic leader: ‘May dialogue and diplomacy conquer war’

By Catholic News Agency on Feb 28, 2022 10:20 am
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk records a video message on Feb. 28, 2022. / Screenshot from Ukrainian Catholic University YouTube channel. Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 28, 2022 / 08:20 am (CNA). The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church expr... [...]
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The fruit of the blood of the Alexandrian Martyrs

By Dawn Beutner on Feb 28, 2022 02:00 am
On February 28, there are nine individuals or groups listed in the Martyrologium Romanum, the Catholic Church’s official calendar of saints and blesseds. One of those entries is for an almost forgotten group of martyrs [...]
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“I decided to do something about it”: The legacy of Fr. Claude Heithaus

By Monica Seeley on Feb 27, 2022 07:41 pm
A few years ago some old memories came back to me unexpectedly. In the first, I am a child, kneeling beside my mother. A priest in fiddleback vestments is saying Mass at a white marble [...]
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Opinion: Addressing Russian delusions about past, present, and future

By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Feb 27, 2022 06:18 pm
In June 2016, I attended a private conference at the University of Vienna that brought together Russian Orthodox and Ukrainian Greco-Catholic scholars and hierarchs with the goal of finding a common narrative of events in [...]
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Pope Francis expresses sorrow in phone call to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

By Catholic News Agency on Feb 26, 2022 02:10 pm
null / Vatican Media. Rome Newsroom, Feb 26, 2022 / 12:10 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Saturday expressed his sorrow about the situation in Ukraine in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.According to the Ukrainian Embassy to ... [...]
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From the Archives: Vladimir the Inevitable? Understanding the rise of Putin

By Joseph Kremers on Feb 26, 2022 09:00 am
Editor’s note: The following article was originally posted on August 5, 2016, the first of a special CWR three-part series on post-Soviet Russia, the rise of Vladimir Putin, the role of religion in Putin’s political [...]
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Quo vadis, Lincoln?

By Nick Olszyk on Feb 25, 2022 11:13 pm
MPAA Rating: Not rated at the time of this review USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars George Washington is probably the most famous American [...]
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7 things to know about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

By Catholic News Agency on Feb 25, 2022 07:00 pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, with President Joe Biden, speaks after she was nominated for Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, February 25, 2022. / Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images. Wa... [...]
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Weigel: The next 24-48 hours are crucial for Kyiv

By Carl E. Olson on Feb 25, 2022 05:27 pm
Following up on yesterday’s exclusive interview, CWR corresponded again today with George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, about the many developments in Ukraine. CWR: What are some of the [...]
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When thriving U.S. publications raged against the Catholic Church

By Ray Cavanaugh on Feb 25, 2022 04:50 pm
Regardless of its particular goals, every publication ultimately has to give its readers what they want. And about a century ago, the thing many U.S. readers wanted most was anti-Catholic content. In that era, anti-Catholicism [...]
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