The battle for religious freedom: Conviction points the way forward
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Nov 24, 2022 05:00 amCatholics are not winning any popularity contests. Not only do we still face fallout from the abuse crisis, we also now regularly hear accusations of “hate” for our stances on life and sexual morality. We [...]
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The grace of family and thanksgiving in this vale of tears
By Christopher R. Altieri on Nov 24, 2022 04:08 am“If half the things go half as well as they might,” I said to my students, “we’ll be very well off, indeed.” Then I told them: “The problem is that I know too much of [...]
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Major Archbishop Shevchuk: “Ukraine will say yes to a serious peace proposal”
By CWR Contributors on Nov 23, 2022 09:25 pm(Kyiv, November 17, 2022) In his hands he holds the letter that Pope Francis just sent to him. “Once again the Pope expresses his affectionate closeness” to the “dear Ukrainian people”. And he invites us [...]
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Thanksgiving with the Saints
By Joseph Pearce on Nov 23, 2022 08:00 pmIt is of course right and proper to keep Christ in Christmas, but can it be right and proper to introduce the saints into Thanksgiving? Isn’t Thanksgiving a secular holiday, as oxymoronic as that might [...]
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Dominican theologian to German Bishop Bätzing: Support for gay agenda is ‘modernist heresy’
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 23, 2022 06:00 amBishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German Episcopal Conference and one of the two presidents of the German Synodal Path. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig / ACI Press CNA Newsroom, Nov 23, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA). Father Nelson Medina, a Dominican prie... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for November 23, 2022
By CWR Staff on Nov 23, 2022 05:00 amRecord Turkey Prices – “Thanksgiving dinner will cost 20% more this year compared to last year.” Thanksgiving Necessary for National Renewal (The Association of Mature American Citizens) Latin Mass Revival – An ancient form of [...]
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Giving thanks for Mike Pence at Thanksgiving
By George Weigel on Nov 23, 2022 03:10 amI’ll confess to some exasperation when, during the 2016 campaign, Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence described himself as an “evangelical Catholic.” Three years earlier, I had published a book on the Catholic future entitled Evangelical [...]
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What Is Social Justice?
By J. J. Ziegler on Nov 22, 2022 08:59 pmFew terms have become as unmoored from their Catholic origins, and have thus lent themselves to misunderstanding in contemporary discourse, as has the term “social justice.” What does the term mean when it appears in [...]
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What the USCCB elections suggest about the next three years
By MIchael R. Heinlein on Nov 22, 2022 08:45 pmThe U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has elected a host of new leadership positions this week. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese of the Military Services has been elected president. Archbishop William E. Lori [...]
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All One in Christ is a meticulous, temperate response to Critical Race Theory
By Gregory J. Sullivan on Nov 22, 2022 04:52 pmWidespread riots and violence were not the only consequences following the death of George Floyd in police custody in 2020. In our intellectual life, as Edward Feser observes in his taut, riveting new book All [...]
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Analysis: What is behind Pope Francis’ appointment of the new prefect for the Eastern Churches?
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on Nov 22, 2022 10:10 amArchbishop Claudio Gugerotti with Pope Francis / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Nov 22, 2022 / 08:10 am (CNA). For the role of prefect of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches, Pope Francis has chosen Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, who... [...]
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A Tribute to David L. Schindler: Teacher and Friend
By Conor Dugan on Nov 21, 2022 08:27 pmThe theologian David L. Schindler once wrote that: [W]e must first recognize that our being originates as a gift: it has always first been given to us by God, and indeed by others in God. [...]
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Remembering David L. Schindler
By Tracey Rowland on Nov 21, 2022 06:26 pmThe first time I came across the name Schindler, I was a doctoral student in Cambridge, working on the topic of tradition-constituted rationality in the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre. The couplet “faith and reason” shares [...]
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Three lessons for the U.S. bishops from the late Cardinal George
By MIchael R. Heinlein on Nov 21, 2022 06:04 pmAs the U.S. bishops wrapped up their annual Fall plenary assembly in Baltimore last week, they elected a new president. Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Military Services will continue the work of Archbishop Jose H. [...]
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Did the Vatican ‘snub’ German bishops over Synodal Way?
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 21, 2022 12:04 pmFacing the German bishops in Rome, Nov. 18, 2022: Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, SJ, prefect of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith; Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state; and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, PSS, prefect of the Dicastery of B... [...]
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Infallibility and the limits of papal power: An interview Cardinal Gerhard Müller
By CWR Contributors on Nov 20, 2022 10:48 pmEditor’s note: The following kath.net interview was posted originally on November 15, 2022, and appears here with kind permission of Lothar C. Rilinger and kath.net. English translation is by Frank Nitsche-Robinson. Vatican (kath.net) According to [...]
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His.
By Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. on Nov 20, 2022 09:56 pmWe are made by God. On a good day, most of us admit that. On a really good day, even those lacking faith acknowledge that. But even on our best day, so many of us [...]
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Exclusive interview: 7 questions for Archbishop Cordileone
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 20, 2022 02:00 pmArchbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, before the Monstrance in Eucharistic Adoration in 2021. / Dennis Callahan/Archdiocese of San Francisco Baltimore, Md., Nov 20, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San... [...]
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“Thy Kingdom Come!”: Christ the King reigns in consciences
By Douglas Bushman on Nov 20, 2022 05:00 amThat Jesus taught His disciples to pray for the coming of the kingdom (Mt 6:9–13; Lk 11:2–4) long before they could fully understand its true nature has long intrigued me. Clearly, Jesus intends to lead [...]
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The Gospel According to the McDonaghs: The Banshees of Inisherin, Calvary, and In Bruges
By Steven D. Greydanus on Nov 19, 2022 07:30 pmNote: This essay contains spoilers for The Banshees of Inisherin, Calvary, and In Bruges. “The things you’re taught as a child…they never really leave you, do they?” These words could be at home in any [...]
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