Dana Gioia’s new collection is marked by moral seriousness and masterly ease
By Edward Short on Feb 17, 2023 04:00 amIn beginning and ending in the underworld, Dana Gioia’s new book of poetry Meet Me At The Lighthouse gives his latest poems an arresting perspective from which he can essay subjects of profound import, including [...]
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A Catholic Response to Gender Identity Theory addresses “tsunami” of gender ideology
By Jim Graves on Feb 16, 2023 07:57 pmArchbishop Alexander Sample of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon released A Catholic Response to Gender Identity Theory: Catechesis and Pastoral Guidelines on January 25th. In an introductory letter, he explained that its purpose is [...]
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The incalculables of State-sanctioned suicide
By Sarah Cain on Feb 16, 2023 04:51 pmIn 1997, my mother took her own life, leaving her five children behind. She had her justifications, I presume, as they all do. We were poor, our family life was broken, and the area that [...]
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Two UK Catholics acquitted after being charged for praying in front of abortion clinic
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 16, 2023 12:00 pmIsabel Vaughan-Spruce (center-left) and Father Sean Gough (center-right) celebrate their legal win outside the Birmingham Magistrates Court in Birmingham, England, on Feb. 16, 2023. / Credit: March for Life UK Boston, Mass., Feb 16, 2023 / 10:0... [...]
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The Pope, the Holocaust, and the Truth: An interview with Michael Hesemann
By Paul Senz on Feb 15, 2023 11:46 pmPope Pius XII is a towering figure in the history of the Church, as well as global politics, in the twentieth century. His papacy lasted from 1939 to 1958, so he was pope during the [...]
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Preparing for Lent and growth in the divine life
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 15, 2023 05:25 pmIn the calendar for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and for communities of the Anglican Usage, the Church offers three preparatory Sundays leading up to Lent (Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinqugesima – that is, 70, [...]
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Memo to Gen Z Catholics: Why Vatican II is still important
By George Weigel on Feb 15, 2023 09:10 amMr. Adam Lucas, who is “newly married with a baby on the way” (mazel tov!) and “has a Master’s in Theology,” speaks for a depressing number of Gen Z Catholics when he writes on the [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for February 15, 2023
By CWR Staff on Feb 15, 2023 05:00 amSay, Say, Synodality – As the synodal continental phase continues, how well does the Vatican’s working document reflect what was said around the world? Vocabulary of a synod: Are the synodal reports speaking the same [...]
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The other Saint of Divine Mercy: Blessed Michał Sopoćko
By Dawn Beutner on Feb 15, 2023 04:00 amWhen we think about the Divine Mercy image, novena, or chaplet, it’s hard not to think about two great saints as well. Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938) was a Polish religious sister and mystic whose [...]
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Bishop Barron: Latin Mass is here to stay, but new locations to be chosen
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 14, 2023 05:00 pmPriest celebrating the traditional Latin Mass at the church of St Pancratius, Rome / Thoom/Shutterstock Boston, Mass., Feb 14, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Following rumors circulating on social media that Winona-Rochester Bishop Robert Barron was pr... [...]
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To live (alone) and die (alone) in Japan
By Austin Ruse on Feb 14, 2023 11:57 amFifty thousand ghost houses in one neighborhood in Tokyo. The Japanese call them “witch-houses,” abandoned houses with no hope of either sale or teardown. There is something on the order of 8.5 million of them [...]
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Have the bishops finally had enough?
By Thomas McKenna on Feb 14, 2023 11:02 amWhat do you do when your Catholic President isn’t actually Catholic? The question, in fact, is even more critical: What do you do when your Catholic President actively undermines the Catholic Faith in word and [..]
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‘We need time,’ Synod on Synodality organizers tell German-language media
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 14, 2023 09:40 amCardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, archbishop of Luxembourg (left) and Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Feb 14, 2023 / 07:40 am (CNA). A key organizer of the Synod on Synodality says... [...]
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Love and the Skeptic
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 14, 2023 03:20 amSaint Valentine's Day is a good time to remind ourselves that human love is an imitation, a reflection, of the divine love that created all [...]
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Thirsting for Christ in Fresno: An interview with Bishop Joseph Brennan
By Jim Graves on Feb 13, 2023 08:55 pmBishop Joseph V. Brennan, 68, has led the Diocese of Fresno since 2019. He was born in Van Nuys, California, the son of a grocer and the ninth of 10 children (he has a twin [...]
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20 state AGs call for investigation into FBI’s ‘anti-Catholic’ memo
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 13, 2023 07:05 pmAttorney General Merrick Garland / Justice Department Washington D.C., Feb 13, 2023 / 17:05 pm (CNA). The chief law enforcement officers from 20 states signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland condemning a since-retracted “anti-... [...]
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Liturgical double standards and the hermeneutic of rupture
By James Baresel on Feb 13, 2023 03:00 pmShortly after Pope Benedict XVI issued Summorum Pontificum in 2007, the then Bishop of Leeds issued an “interpretation” which did its best to reduce the motu proprio to meaninglessness and obstruct its implementation. Examples include: [...]
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How should we think about Vatican II?
By Douglas Bushman on Feb 12, 2023 09:00 pmEditor’s note: The following essay was originally delivered on January 8, 2021, as the Convocation for Spring 2021 Semester at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota. It was posted originally at CWR on [...]
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5 things to know about the ‘He Gets Us’ Jesus ad campaign
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 12, 2023 11:34 amA He Gets Us ad in Washington, D.C. / Credit: He Gets Us Washington D.C., Feb 12, 2023 / 09:34 am (CNA). Super Bowl viewers this Sunday may be surprised to see two ads that don’t seem to have anything to do with Christianity until the end when ... [...]
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People, Look East!
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 11, 2023 11:00 pmIt seems a bit of a firestorm has erupted and is spreading of late, whereby some bishops have forbidden their priests to offer Holy Mass “Ad Orientem,” that is, facing liturgical (east or the tabernacle), [...]
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60 years after his miraculous healing, he still returns to Lourdes
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 11, 2023 06:00 amVittorio Micheli, who was miraculously cured at Lourdes in 1963. / Matthew Kang St. Louis, Mo., Feb 11, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). In April 1962, a 23-year-old Italian soldier named Vittorio Micheli was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his left ... [...]
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Groundhog Day at 30 and the Riddle of Bill Murray
By Steven D. Greydanus on Feb 11, 2023 05:00 amThe 30th anniversary of Groundhog Day arrives this weekend overshadowed by recent reports of, and renewed attention to, allegations of inappropriate behavior by Bill Murray. Last month Geena Davis offered new details about an incident [...]
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Jesus: Liberal rabbi or incarnate Messiah?
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 11, 2023 04:00 amReadings: • Sir 15:15-20 • Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34 • 1 Cor 2:6-10 • Mt 5:17-37 “Was Jesus in reality a liberal rabbi—a forerunner of Christian liberalism? Is the Christ of faith, and therefore [...]
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The Ukraine War and the search for common ground
By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Feb 10, 2023 08:25 pmI was wrong. In May and in October of 2022, I wrote articles fearing a prolonged war and hoping for a negotiated settlement in Ukraine to prevent the continuing slaughter. I knew my views were [...]
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