Benedict’s serious illness raises questions about pope emeritus protocols
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on Dec 29, 2022 04:23 pmA detail of Tsarkova’s painting showing Benedict XVI’s pectoral cross, his fisherman’s ring, and his rosary. / Daniel Ibáñez / CNA Rome, Italy, Dec 29, 2022 / 14:23 pm (CNA). The anticipated death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI raises important ... [...]
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On lukewarm mediocrity, duplicitous hypocrisy, and media deflections
By Larry Chapp on Dec 29, 2022 02:44 pmI am dating myself with this reference, but in the old BBC sketch comedy show, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” there was a sketch in which Michael Palin plays a cheese shop proprietor and John Cleese [...]
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Metropolitan Opera to perform Francis Poulenc’s powerful Dialogues of the Carmelites
By Russell Shaw on Dec 29, 2022 01:10 pmIf you have access to a radio station that carries the Saturday matinee broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera, you have a memorable experience waiting for you. On January 28, the featured work will be Francis [...]
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The Rupnik affair is a microcosm of Church’s leadership crisis
By Christopher R. Altieri on Dec 28, 2022 06:28 pmThis Rupnik business is very bad. There’s no telling how bad it will be for Pope Francis, the Vatican, the Jesuits, or the Slovenian bishops. There’s plenty of bad to go around. Rupnik’s art is [...]
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The National Survey of Priests suggests a deep crisis in Catholic theology
By Msgr. Thomas G. Guarino on Dec 28, 2022 01:47 pmA few weeks ago, the Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America released the results of a massive survey of Catholic priests in the United States. Priests interviewed numbered 3,500 from 191 American dioceses. [...]
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We’re ‘fans,’ not ‘fan bases’
By George Weigel on Dec 28, 2022 09:28 amAmidst the sundry aggravations of contemporary life in these United States, few have such a cringe-inducing effect on me as a ubiquitous neologism that appeared eight times in a November column in the Wall Street [...]
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Pope Francis: Pray for a ‘very ill’ Benedict XVI
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 28, 2022 04:16 amPope Francis visits Benedict XVI on Aug. 27th, 2022 / Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 28, 2022 / 02:16 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday asked for prayers for a “very ill” Benedict XVI.Francis made the appeal for the 95-year-old pope emeritus... [...]
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Extra, Extra! News and views for December 28, 2022
By CWR Staff on Dec 28, 2022 03:56 amAn Authentic Christian Artist – “She will never receive the Church patronage that the corrupt Jesuit mosaicist Marko Rupnik has, but this Ukrainian Catholic mom creates extraordinary images that glorify God” Ivanka Demchuk, Christian Artist [...]
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Lessons about life, love, and courage from three feast days this week
By Susan Ciancio on Dec 27, 2022 05:00 amThis week, we have three significant feast days in a row. First, on December 28, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents. On December 30, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family. And [...]
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Many of those committed to sexual liberation will persist unto destruction
By Nathanael Blake on Dec 26, 2022 11:02 pmVindication isn’t victory. For decades, Christians prophesied about the harms of the sexual revolution. And for decades, Christians were dismissed as puritanical killjoys. But Christian critiques of the sexual revolution have proven prescient. It is [...]
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A history of contraception in the United States
By John B. Buescher on Dec 26, 2022 04:00 pmCatholic apologetics against contraception and abortion sometimes appear historically naive, as if these issues suddenly fell out of the sky in 1930 with Resolution 15 of the Anglican Lambeth Conference on contraception, or during The [...]
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The Glastonbury Thorn: a resurrected symbol of Christmas
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 26, 2022 10:00 amA stamp printed in United Kingdom in 1999 shows image of the dedicated to the Glastonbury Holy Thorn. / MarkauMark / Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Dec 26, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Catholic celebration of Christmas is about God’s entry into our... [...]
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New study of Dawson explores how religion is “the key of history”
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Dec 25, 2022 10:58 pmChristopher Dawson, though he never earned the doctorate nor held a permanent university post, was recognized in his day as one of Europe’s most profound thinkers. He delivered the Gifford Lectures in 1947, he served [...]
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Full text: Pope Francis’ Christmas Urbi et Orbi blessing 2022
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 25, 2022 09:00 amPope Francis delivers his Christmas "Urbi et Orbi" address on Dec. 25, 2022. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 25, 2022 / 07:00 am (CNA). On Christmas Day 2022, Pope Francis delivered his “Urbi et Orbi” address and blessing from the c... [...]
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“O Holy Night!”
By Fr. Charles Fox on Dec 25, 2022 04:00 am“Minuit, chrétiens, C’est l’heure solennelle Ou l’Homme Dieu descendit jusqu’à nous Pour effacer la tache originelle Et de Son Père arrêter le courrou.” The Christmas carol, “Cantique de Noël”, was written first as a French [...]
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The Miracle of Goshen’s first Christmas Mass
By Father Seán Connolly on Dec 24, 2022 06:41 pmThe purpose of the Advent season is to arouse within ourselves the same spirit of longing the many holy souls of the Old Testament had in their hearts for the coming of the promised Redeemer. [...]
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G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens, and the Joy of Christmas
By Dale Ahlquist on Dec 24, 2022 03:01 pmWhy a radio broadcast from Christmas Day in 1931 still rings with the wonder of “this season of enjoyment.” [...]
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Deciphering De Donatis
By Christopher R. Altieri on Dec 24, 2022 12:13 pmThe Cardinal Vicar for the Diocese of Rome, Angelo De Donatis, released a statement on Friday – late in the afternoon, Rome Time, heading into the Christmas weekend – regarding the disgraced celebrity Jesuit artist-priest, [...]
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What is the meaning of Christmas?
By Russell Shaw on Dec 24, 2022 04:49 amWhat is the meaning of Christmas? That question may not be quite as simple as it sounds. For many people, Christmas means big, jovial meals with family and friends, singing seasonal hymns in church, exchanging [...]
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Statement about Fr. Rupnik from the Diocese of Rome raises more questions
By Christopher R. Altieri on Dec 23, 2022 11:28 pmThe Diocese of Rome has issued its own statement regarding Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ, the world-famous Jesuit artist-priest accused of serial sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse of at least nine women over a period [...]
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What Is “The Nativity”?
By James V. Schall, S.J. on Dec 23, 2022 06:00 pm“What is?” questions are of particular significance. When we see or hear of something before us or of something happening, we want to know what it is. We are not satisfied until we find out. [...]
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Christmas and China at the end of 2022
By Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. on Dec 23, 2022 05:44 pmChina’s Catholics have celebrated Christmas in Beijing since the first church was built there in 1299 by the Franciscan friar John of Montecorvino (1247-1348). Since that time the Church there has both enjoyed eras of [...]
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An introduction to Catholic catechisms
By Dawn Beutner on Dec 23, 2022 01:40 pmHundreds of thousands of people have joined Fr. Mike Schmitz’s “The Bible in a Year” podcast over the past two years to try to grow in their knowledge of God and the Bible. Ascension Press [...]
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