On Archangels and the greatest miracle
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Sep 29, 2023 03:00 amThe present moment in history finds us confronted with hundreds of purported supernatural visitations. This proliferation is not cause for rejoicing; on the contrary, it [...]
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From parish to monastery: The life and writing of Blessed Columba Marmion
By Julian Kwasniewski on Sep 28, 2023 10:30 pm“Tell them that the new Parish Priest with his velvet waist-coat and gold chain, has got inside the poor Benedictine who wears no waist-coat & sports a boot lace for a chain,” Blessed Columba Marmion [...]
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Hong Kong bishop: Evangelization in China shouldn’t have ‘agenda of turning them into Catholics’
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 28, 2023 06:11 pmCardinal-elect Stephen Chow said Sept. 28, 2023, that evangelization in China today should focus on communicating the love of God “without the agenda of turning them into Catholics.” / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican City, Sep 28, 2023 / 12:... [...]
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Pope Francis, Cardinal Ricard, and a stern “Call to Action”
By Christopher R. Altieri on Sep 28, 2023 12:03 pmHistorians will not want for points from which to date the breakdown of Pope Francis’s reign. Whether it was the appalling rehabilitation of disgraced Cardinal Godfried Danneels – who was on the loggia when Francis [...]
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“It could be worse”: On Tarkovksy’s final film, faith, and the mystery of sacrifice
By Andrew Petiprin on Sep 27, 2023 10:36 pmIn a journal entry from 1982, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky described his struggle to believe: The most important thing and the hardest is to have faith. Because if you do have faith, then [...]
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Is liturgical historicism insurmountable?
By Brian Jones on Sep 27, 2023 10:16 pmIn recent years, I have found myself increasingly exhausted by discussions surrounding the current state of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. This sense of exhaustion has been significantly relieved by the fact that [...]
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California governor signs bills that would penalize schools that refuse to teach LGBT content
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 27, 2023 11:00 amnull / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 27, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA). California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that would reduce funding to schools that restrict LGBT content from their classrooms.The bill would centr... [...]
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Discipline of sister who led community co-founded by Rupnik raises questions
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 27, 2023 10:28 amFather Marko Rupnik. / Credit: Screen shot/ACI Prensa Rome Newsroom, Sep 27, 2023 / 11:28 am (CNA). A religious sister who co-founded a community with the ex-Jesuit and accused abuser Father Marko Rupnik three decades ago was quietly removed in... [...]
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India, China, and the future
By George Weigel on Sep 27, 2023 04:00 amThe September 2 issue of The Spectator featured a cartoon of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak riding an ascending rocket. Inside, the lead article – a preview of the G-20 Summit [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, September 27, 2023
By CWR Staff on Sep 27, 2023 03:00 amThe Default Deity of Nature – “The religious instinct in us is so great that, even if we do not worship the true God, we will always endeavor to worship something: our country, our culture, [...]
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The Bipolar Priesthood
By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Sep 27, 2023 12:24 amDecades ago, a pastor returned to the rectory, discouraged. He lamented that some people treat their dogs better than their priests. As every pastor knows, the priest had a point. He was faithful, irascible, ornery, [...]
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Evangelization in an Age of Unbelief
By Larry Chapp on Sep 26, 2023 11:56 pmWohin ist Gott? (Where is God?) — Friedrich Nietzsche Part One: Nemo dat quod non habet (You cannot give away what you do not possess) The currently raging white-hot debates in the Church are merely the [...]
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Family who fled Germany to home-school their kids faces deportation from the U.S.
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 26, 2023 08:20 pmThe Romeike family fled from Germany in order to home-school their children and now faces deportation from the U.S. / Credit: The Romeike Family Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 26, 2023 / 15:20 pm (CNA). A German family that has lived in the Uni... [...]
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The Heart Has its Reasons: Thoughts on a Theology of Courage
By Most Reverend James Conley on Sep 25, 2023 11:22 pmEditor’s note: The following address was given at the Catholic Medical Association’s 92nd Annual Educational Conference on September 7, 2023. My comments today are not what I originally intended. A title like “the heart has [...]
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A narrow win for religious freedom in Maryland
By Charles J. Russo on Sep 25, 2023 11:03 pmAmid ongoing controversy over the tension between religious freedom and issues involving human sexuality, the Supreme Court of Maryland, in a four-to-three judgment, handed a narrow and significant victory to faith-based institutions in Doe v. [...]
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North Carolina Right to Life celebrates 50 years, looks back and forward
By CWR Staff on Sep 25, 2023 10:36 pmNatalie Sonnen is Outreach Director of North Carolina Right to Life, a state affiliate that is marking its fiftieth anniversary this year. NCRTL will mark its jubilee with a gala banquet in Greensboro on Saturday, [...]
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German bishops in tug of war over blessing same-sex unions
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 25, 2023 10:23 amCardinal Rainer Maria Woelki faces mounting pressure from multiple fronts, including local media — and some clergy: In open defiance, several priests conducted an event blessing same-sex couples outside the iconic Cologne Cathedral Sept 21, 2023... [...]
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The Rupnik business will stain and possibly define Pope Francis’s legacy
By Christopher R. Altieri on Sep 24, 2023 10:53 pmHow bad is this Rupnik business? It is very, very bad. The Rupnik business is worse—by orders of magnitude—than l’Affaire Barros, l’Affaire Inzoli, worse even than l’Affaire Zanchetta. The disgraceful rehabilitation of Danneels is mere [...]
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How about a sound soul in a sound body?
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Sep 24, 2023 03:20 amPublic health messages barrage us from the moment of birth. Mothers cannot leave the hospital until a physician examines the newborns, who must then be taken to their personal pediatricians within the first week of [...]
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Literature, Truth and Beauty: Or, why “art for art’s sake” is poisonous
By Robert Lazu Kmita on Sep 23, 2023 10:58 pmIn an interview that I had the honor and joy of conducting almost 20 years ago, in 2005, Joseph Pearce revealed that his vocation is to mediate the encounter of as many readers as possible [...]
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‘You don’t play with life:’ Pope Francis condemns euthanasia, abortion on papal plane
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 23, 2023 03:00 pmPope Francis speaks during a press conference aboard the papal plane from Marseille to Rome on Sept. 23, 2023, at the conclusion of a two-day visit to the southern French port city to take part in the Mediterranean Encounter, a meeting of young ... [...]
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“No one who murmurs receives the kingdom of heaven…”
By Carl E. Olson on Sep 23, 2023 04:30 amReadings: • Isa 55:6-9 • Psa 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18 • Phil 1:20c-24, 27a • Mt 20:1-16a The parable of the workers in the vineyard has been interpreted in varying ways, reflecting the parable’s complexity and [...]
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Padre Pio and the Wounds of Christ
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Sep 23, 2023 02:05 amToday the Church honors the memory of Francesco Forgione, born on 25 May 1887, better known as Padre Pio. He was recognized as an extraordinary confessor, reader of souls, and worker of miracles. Like many [...]
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The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality
By Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. on Sep 22, 2023 08:21 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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