The false front is showing on this Potemkin Synod
By Larry Chapp on Aug 31, 2023 10:05 pmThe Synod on Synodality is just around the corner in October and already one can feel the excitement building among rank-and-file Catholics for what promises to be the first time the Church has ever really [...]
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Pastoral “discernment” and cutting the ground from under the papal feet
By Edward Short on Aug 31, 2023 09:20 pmReaders may have seen the recent article in Catholic Herald reporting on a 2000-word letter that Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin sent to his priests instructing them to consider blessing the marriages of same-sex couples—or [...]
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An update on the status of Fulton Sheen’s beatification cause
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 31, 2023 10:25 amVenerable Fulton Sheen. (public domain) / null Long Island, New York, Aug 31, 2023 / 09:25 am (CNA). “Sheen is clean.”That’s the message from Monsignor Jason Gray, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, regarding the stat... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, August 30, 2023
By CWR Staff on Aug 31, 2023 01:00 amOur Godless Culture – “While we do not face the miseries of World War I or the brewing storms that led to World War II, a spiritual shift in axis has allowed once firm foundations [...]
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Memento mori: Thoughts of death and rebirth in a reminiscent season
By Monica Seeley on Aug 30, 2023 04:44 pmAs I sat down to write this, August was almost over. “Big kids” had drifted off to college already, and the “littles”—no longer so little—were sleeping the sleep of the just; enjoying another couple of [...]
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McCarrick’s alleged victim ‘left with nothing’ after ex-prelate ruled incompetent to face trial
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 30, 2023 01:37 pmFormer cardinal Theodore McCarrick outside the Dedham District Court on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. / Joe Bukuras / CNA Dedham, Mass., Aug 30, 2023 / 12:37 pm (CNA). Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial on criminal sexu... [...]
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New commentary embraces, explains the first book of the Bible
By CWR Staff on Aug 29, 2023 11:14 pmStephen K. Ray was raised in a devout and loving Baptist family. His father was a deacon and Bible teacher, and Stephen was very involved in his local Baptist church as a teacher of biblical [...]
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Lessons from the life of a good and holy bishop: Blessed Alfredo Schuster
By Dawn Beutner on Aug 29, 2023 10:00 pmThe Italian city of Milan has been blessed with many saintly shepherds over the centuries. From Saint Ambrose in the fourth century to Saint Paul VI in the twentieth, many archbishops of Milan have later [...]
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Who is really trying to replace doctrine with ideology?
By Carl E. Olson on Aug 28, 2023 10:37 pm“There you go again.” — Ronald Reagan, 1980 Pope Francis, addressing a group of Jesuits recently, said: “When you abandon doctrine in life to replace it with an ideology, you have lost, you have lost [...]
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“Such as we write, such are the times”: An interview with Katy Carl
By Jesse Russell on Aug 28, 2023 09:44 pmKaty Carl is the author of As Earth Without Water (Wiseblood, 2021), Praying the Great O Antiphons: My Soul Magnifies the Lord (Catholic Truth Society, 2021), and a new short story collection titled Fragile Objects (Wiseblood, 2023). [...]
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Opus Dei does not want to be an exception in the Church, prelate says
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 28, 2023 05:45 pmMonsignor Fernando Ocáriz, prelate of Opus Dei. / Credit: Opus Dei Communication Office ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 28, 2023 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, the prelate of Opus Dei, said the institution he has led since January 2017 “doe... [...]
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Pope Francis laments when ‘ideology replaces faith’ in segment of U.S. Catholics
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 28, 2023 10:36 amPope Francis speaks about World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, during his weekly Wednesday audience in the Paul VI Hall Aug. 9, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Aug 28, 2023 / 09:36 am (CNA). In a conversation with Jesuits in Portugal a... [...]
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Why and how to read Augustine’s Confessions
By Dr. Jared Ortiz on Aug 27, 2023 08:00 pmIn the comments to my CWR article on different translations of the Confessions, a reader related the common experience of trying to read Augustine and giving up. “The time to read and digest the Confessions [...]
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The fruits of environmentalism and of social justice (Part 3)
By Theodore Misiak on Aug 27, 2023 06:35 pmThe previous articles (Part 1 and Part 2) in this series examined Catholic social teaching as it relates to the environment and to economic reform. Authentic Catholic teaching is oriented towards heaven and urges us [...]
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When Harlots Ruled the Church
By Sandra Miesel on Aug 27, 2023 04:00 pmHere a scandal, there a scandal, and pretty soon you’re talking real depravity. As the Church shudders almost daily from new stories of corruption, the faithful wonder if this is the worst ecclesiastical era ever. [...]
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Nicolaus Copernicus: Man of mystery, science, and God
By Filip Mazurczak on Aug 26, 2023 11:02 pmThis year marks the 550th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus’ birth and the 480th of his death. This provides an opportunity to debunk some of the myths regarding the relationship of the great scientist, thanks to [...]
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Maryland school ruling should serve as a warning to parents
By Susan Ciancio on Aug 26, 2023 03:53 pmThe latest news involving the usurpation of parental rights is a disturbing story out of Maryland’s Montgomery County school district. A district judge has ruled that parents cannot opt their children out of curricula that [...]
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Pope Francis: Synod on Synodality ‘truly important’ despite being ‘of little interest to the general public’
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 26, 2023 10:30 amPope Francis speaks at the general audience on Aug. 23, 2023. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 26, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that the upcoming Synod on Synodality may be “of little interest to the general public... [...]
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The Papacy and Sacred Scripture
By Carl E. Olson on Aug 26, 2023 03:00 amOn the Readings for Sunday, August 27, 2017 [...]
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A Hobbit’s Journey Home—Part Two: Crossing the Atlantic and the Tiber
By Joseph Pearce on Aug 25, 2023 11:59 amAt the conclusion of the first part of our journey “there and back again” with Father Dwight Longenecker on his “somewhat religious odyssey”, we left him on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament [...]
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