Radical inclusion leads to moral confusion
By Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann on Feb 10, 2023 05:10 amI came of age in the 1960s. It was an era of civil unrest, race riots, anti-war protests, and the sexual revolution. One of the popular bumper stickers at the time stated: Question Everything. These [...]
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St. Scholastica and her spiritual daughters
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 10, 2023 03:41 amToday the Church of the West celebrates the birth to heavenly glory of St. Scholastica, twin sister of St. Benedict, born around 480 A.D. in Nursia/Norcia, Italy, where an ancient monastery (liquidated by Napoleon) was [...]
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An American perspective on the situation of the Church in Germany
By Jayd Henricks on Feb 09, 2023 07:00 pmHow does the Catholic Church in the United States evaluate the situation of the church in Germany? The answer to this question obviously depends on who you ask, but it is fair to say that [...]
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Benedict XVI describes ‘Protestantization’ of the Eucharist in posthumous publication
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 09, 2023 11:00 amWYD Sydney - July 15 - 20, 2008 / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 8, 2023 / 08:30 am (CNA). In a 2018 essay published after his death, Pope Benedict XVI said a Protestant-like understanding of the Eucharist and strong calls for intercommunion ... [...]
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Learning to do nothing: The art of sacred silence
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Feb 09, 2023 04:00 am“All of man’s misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room.” Blaise Pascal, who offers this insight, also notes in his Pensées that we fear silence more [...]
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A Cardinal Misunderstanding of the Hierarchy of Truths
By T. Alex Giltner, Ph.D. on Feb 08, 2023 11:42 pmCatholic media has been reacting the last two weeks to Cardinal McElroy’s recent piece on synodality and “radical inclusivism” in the Church. Responding to some of his critics, his Eminence appeared on the America magazine [...]
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Germany’s Synodal Way leader says exclusion of women from ordination drives women from Church
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 08, 2023 01:10 pmIrme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics. / zdk.de. Prague, Czech Republic, Feb 8, 2023 / 11:10 am (CNA). A leader of the controversial German Synodal Way said in a speech at Europe’s synod meeting Wednesday tha... [...]
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Revisiting Adam and Eve after The Pill: An interview with Mary Eberstadt
By Paul Senz on Feb 08, 2023 12:52 pmThe so-called “sexual revolution” has wreaked havoc on the foundations of our society. Some of the most fundamental building blocks of day to day life – sex, procreation, marriage, family – are under attack, and [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for February 8, 2023
By CWR Staff on Feb 08, 2023 05:00 amDecember 25 – “Ukraine’s main Catholic church said on Monday it would move to a new calendar that would see Christmas celebrated on Dec. 25 rather than Jan. 7, amid an effort by Ukrainian institutions [...]
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What pro-choice black leadership has wrought
By George Weigel on Feb 08, 2023 03:10 amThe corner of Connecticut Avenue and M Street in downtown Washington is occasionally patrolled by young men and women seeking signatures on petitions for one cause or another. I usually pay them no mind except [...]
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Court rules pro-life group owes nearly $1 million in fines for Planned Parenthood protests
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 07, 2023 02:23 pmnull / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock. Denver, Colo., Feb 7, 2023 / 12:23 pm (CNA). A Planned Parenthood affiliate has won a legal judgment of almost $1 million against a pro-life group that gathered outside of a Spokane abortion clinic.Th... [...]
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This is not why I left Protestantism
By Casey Chalk on Feb 07, 2023 03:28 amIt was the late summer of 2010. I was a Protestant seminary student, but I had been studying (and disputing) various claims made by the Catholic Church, precipitated by the recent conversion of one of [...]
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The Church in Germany is on the path into total insignificance
By Birgit Kelle on Feb 07, 2023 01:04 amThe Catholic Church in Germany is not only facing its last synodal assembly in March 2023, but also its biggest decision on direction in many decades. Reconciling the driving forces there with the clear admonitions [...]
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Dictatorship in Nicaragua sentences priest critical of the regime to 10 years in prison
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 06, 2023 02:30 pmFather Oscar Benavidez. / Credit: Parish of the Holy Spirit of Mulukukú, Nicaragua CNA Newsroom, Feb 6, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA). The dictatorship in Nicaragua, led by President Daniel Ortega, sentenced Father Óscar Danilo Benavidez Dávila to 10 y... [...]
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The sexualization of children under guise of “education” must stop
By Susan Ciancio on Feb 06, 2023 05:00 amMy, how the times have changed. In 2011, CNN published an opinion piece strongly criticizing TLC’s show Toddlers and Tiaras because it sexualized young girls. According to the article, “Instead of creating ratings-friendly buzz, TLC [...]
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What to do with politics?
By James Kalb on Feb 05, 2023 11:19 pmIn Philippians 4:6, the Apostle Paul tells us: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think [...]
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Pope Francis: Partisans have used Benedict XVI’s death ‘to serve their own interests’
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 05, 2023 01:35 pmPope Francis speaks to journalists on Feb. 5, 2023, during his flight back to Rome after his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. / Vatican Media Rome, Italy, Feb 5, 2023 / 11:35 am (CNA). Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s deat... [...]
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St. Agatha and the subversiveness of the Roman virgin martyrs
By Stephen G. Adubato on Feb 05, 2023 03:30 amOn February 5th, the Latin Church celebrates the Feast of Saint Agatha, who was born in Sicily in 231. Among the more well-off of the Christian minority during the Roman times, Agatha’s parents consecrated her [...]
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The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality
By Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. on Feb 04, 2023 11:21 pmSt. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgement of our own, and keep the mind every ready and prompt to obey in all things, the [...]
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‘There is power in suffering’: Meet the bishop who ordained the real-life Father Stu
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 04, 2023 06:00 amMark Wahlberg starts as Father Stuart Long in "Father Stu: Reborn." / Credit: Sony Pictures Denver Newsroom, Feb 4, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). Is anyone beyond redemption? Last year’s sleeper hit film “Father Stu” showed that with the gra... [...]
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Salt, Cities, and Disciples
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 04, 2023 05:00 amReadings: • Is 58:7-10 • Ps 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • 1 Cor 2:1-5 • Mt. 5:13-16 It is small, simple, and composed mostly of something that doesn’t sound tasty at all: sodium chloride. But the [...]
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History for laughs and for keeps
By Edward Short on Feb 03, 2023 08:15 pmMany readers of Karl Keating’s 1054 and All That: A Lighthearted History of the Catholic Church might be tempted to see the book as little more than an amusing chronology of the Church history no [...]
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