A simple but powerful prayer for a complex time
By Fr. Charles Fox on Jul 15, 2022 04:00 amMany Catholics find themselves bewildered at the tidal wave of bad news they seem to encounter on a weekly basis. Tidal waves of prayer and the intense pursuit of holiness are needed to meet the [...]
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Poll finds half of Catholic likely voters believe in the Real Presence
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 14, 2022 08:00 pmArchbishop Allen Vigneron carries the Blessed Sacrament during a Corpus Christi procession in June 2016. / Jonathan Francis | Detroit Catholic file photo Denver Newsroom, Jul 14, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA). A poll released this week found that of Ca... [...]
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New books present sharply opposed conclusions about Pius XII, the Holocaust
By Russell Shaw on Jul 14, 2022 05:50 pmTwo substantial new historical studies of Pope Pius XII’s response to the Jewish Holocaust reach sharply opposed conclusions. Not surprisingly, it’s the negative criticism of Pius rather than the documented defense that’s getting attention, including [...]
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The undermining of John Paul II in the name of Veritatis Splendor continues
By Larry Chapp on Jul 14, 2022 05:20 pmPedro Gabriel has penned a response to my most recent CWR article, which focused on the moral theology of Pope Francis. Gabriel’s essay is full of the kind of sophistry one has come to expect [...]
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Archbishop Naumann says he is ‘sad’ over Pope’s handling of Biden, Pelosi on abortion
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 14, 2022 12:26 pmArchbishop Joseph Naumann / Catholic News Agency Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 14, 2022 / 10:26 am (CNA). Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas has he is “sad” over the way Pope Francis has handled the controversy surrounding the ... [...]
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Opinion: Neither an Ahmarist nor a Frenchman be
By Nathanael Blake on Jul 13, 2022 06:27 pmDavid French and Sohrab Ahmari were right about each other. A few years after their dust-up launched a thousand think pieces debating the nature and future of conservatism, we should at least have learned this: [...]
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Pope Francis appoints three women to Dicastery for Bishops
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 13, 2022 06:48 amSr. Raffaella Petrini meets Pope Francis. / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Jul 13, 2022 / 04:48 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday named three women to the Dicastery of Bishops, the Vatican office responsible for evaluating new members of the Ca... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for July 13, 2022
By CWR Staff on Jul 13, 2022 05:00 amThe New Authoritarians – What changed in March 2020? How have things played out? What are the causes? What can we expect, looking ahead? Evil In Our Time: Naomi Wolf on the Covid Response (Brownstone [...]
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The War of the Conciliar Succession, continued
By George Weigel on Jul 13, 2022 03:05 amWhile I’ve never been able to remember the details of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), I’ve riffed on those monikers to denominate a major struggle [...]
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Radical feminism and the roots of the godless “gender paradigm”
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 12, 2022 05:03 pmThree years ago, I interviewed Abigail Favale about her book Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion (Cascade Books, 2018), a work that I described as “a moving, insightful, and vulnerable account of her journey from [...]
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What is the end goal of Pope Francis’s governance?
By Christopher R. Altieri on Jul 12, 2022 02:05 pmThere’s a scene in Brian De Palma’s 1987 classic, The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner as Elliot Ness, with Sean Connery as Chicago police Sgt. James Malone, which has been on my mind of late. Malone [...]
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Martyrs of China, then and now
By Dawn Beutner on Jul 12, 2022 01:07 pmOn July 9th, the Church remembered the heroic lives and deaths of 120 Chinese martyrs. These men, women, and children died between the years 1648 and 1930. But the practice of the Christian faith did [...]
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Defendant in Vatican trial claims Pope Francis knew all about the London property deal
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on Jul 12, 2022 06:08 amVatican trial (file image) / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Jul 11, 2022 / 06:08 am (CNA). As the Vatican’s historic trial revolving around a London property deal and allegations of corruption continues, the question of what Pope Francis himself ... [...]
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Pastor of Catholic church in Bethesda, Maryland, describes arson, desecration of tabernacle
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 10, 2022 11:37 pmFlames visible inside St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Parish in Bethesda, Maryland, on July 10, 2022. / Screenshot from YouTube video Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 10, 2022 / 21:37 pm (CNA). The pastor of a Catholic parish in Bethesda, Ma... [...]
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The blessings and example of St. Benedict
By Sandra Miesel on Jul 10, 2022 11:00 pmWestern civilization is “waiting for another Benedict,” according to philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. But why single out St. Benedict of Nursia (480-547) as a model for treating the ills of modern society? As the father of [...]
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The “Mind” of Christ
By James V. Schall, S.J. on Jul 09, 2022 11:55 pmEditor’s note: This “Sojourns With Schall” column was originally posted a decade ago, on July 11, 2012. ——————– “The hymn to Christ, or, more commonly, the ‘Christological hymn’ (Philippians 2:4-9) is a hymn in which [...]
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The problem with women helping select bishops is not what you think it is
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jul 09, 2022 11:16 pmWhen word surfaces that Pope Francis has given another interview, I think it’s not much of an exaggeration to say there is a world-wide ecclesial holding of breath. His latest, to Reuters on July 2, [...]
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The Heart and the Good Samaritan
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 09, 2022 09:00 amReadings: • Deut 30:10-14 • Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37 • Col 1:15-20 • Lk 10:25-37 “The heart,” wrote St. John Chrysostom, “is the most noble of all the members of our body.” [...]
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Archbishop Aquila on evangelization, false gods, abortion, Germany’s “Synodal Path”
By Jim Graves on Jul 08, 2022 11:52 pmArchbishop Samuel Aquila, 71, is celebrating his tenth anniversary as Archbishop of Denver, the archdiocese in which he was ordained in 1976. He was born in Burbank, California, served as a priest in Denver for 25 [...]
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Aristotle on the middle class
By Dr. Edward Feser on Jul 08, 2022 02:13 pmOn CNN the other day, liberal commentator Van Jones complained that the Democrats are “becoming a party of the very high and the very low” ends of the economic spectrum, and do not appeal to [...]
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