A call to arms and a new crusade of prayer and peace
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Oct 13, 2023 04:00 amAny time I turn on the news or check social media, everyone is talking about the conflict between Hamas and Israel that began last weekend. Many are calling the violence and death wrought by Hamas [...]
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Can saying the Rosary end abortion?
By Katie Brown on Oct 12, 2023 09:53 pmIn his letter to the Ephesians, Saint Paul instructed people to “put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes” (Eph 6:11). I’m not sure what [...]
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Biden Health and Human Services imposes trans pronoun mandate on employees
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 12, 2023 04:16 pmAdmiral Rachel Levine, Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary for health, announces new transgender guidelines. / Credit: HHSGov Internal YouTube channel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 12, 2023 / 17:16 pm (CNA). The U.S. De... [...]
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“The Eucharist is my Highway to Heaven”
By Paul Senz on Oct 12, 2023 12:44 pmWe do not have photographs of the vast majority of the Church’s saints and blesseds. Portraits and sculptures suffice for most of them, and those of whom we do have photographs are usually shown in [...]
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“Erga migrantes caritas Christi”: On the Church’s social doctrine and immigration
By Eduardo Echeverria on Oct 11, 2023 10:46 pmThe Church’s social doctrine is therefore of a theological nature, specifically theological-moral, “since it is a doctrine aimed at guiding people’s behavior.” “This teaching … is to be found at the crossroads where Christian life and [...]
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Synod on Synodality members ask ‘for greater discernment’ of Church teaching on sexuality
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 11, 2023 02:40 pmDelegates meet at round tables during the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 10, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 11, 2023 / 15:40 pm (CNA). Participants in the Synod on Synodality have asked “for greater discernment on the teaching of ... [...]
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The Hartford Appeal and the Synod on Synodality
By George Weigel on Oct 11, 2023 04:00 amIn the winter of 1974, Richard John Neuhaus, then a Lutheran pastor, and Peter Berger, the distinguished sociologist of religion, spent an evening smoking cigarillos in the Bergers’ Brooklyn Heights kitchen and jotting down the [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, October 11, 2023
By CWR Staff on Oct 11, 2023 03:00 amExcessive Papal Power? – “Whatever their flaws, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI used their authority in a centripetal way. They each sought to pull a centrifugal Church back together after Vatican II. [...]
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Synodality, Soteriology, and “Sharing the journey”
By Carl E. Olson on Oct 10, 2023 09:03 pmIn “The Dogma is the Drama” (1939), which is one of my favorite essays, the brilliant Anglo-Catholic writer Dorothy Sayers (1893–1957) wrote: Christ, in His Divine innocence, said to the Woman of Samaria, “Ye worship ye know [...]
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Pastor of only Catholic church in Gaza: ‘Never have we seen things like this time’
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 10, 2023 08:30 amHoly Family Catholic Church in Gaza at Christmas 2021. / Credit: Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 10, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). Father Gabriel Romanelli, an Argentine priest of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) who serves a... [...]
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New book pays tribute to Cardinal Pell as a champion of orthodoxy
By Christopher B. Warner on Oct 10, 2023 03:00 amAlthough Cardinal Pell was just 81 years old, his death in January 2023 came as a surprise. He is already greatly missed. The robust, 6’4”, former rugby player from Australia was a courageously outspoken cardinal, [...]
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Dubia-ous Takes and Hyperbolic Banter
By Christopher R. Altieri on Oct 09, 2023 12:38 pm“Bonkers,” is the only word for the week that was, especially on the Catholic news beat, and with particular regard for a set of official questions called dubia in the technical language of ecclesialese. For [...]
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This week at the Synod on Synodality: Deliberations and veiled agendas
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on Oct 09, 2023 07:27 amSynod on Synodality delegates in small groups listen on Oct. 4, 2023, to Pope Francis’ guidance for the upcoming weeks. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Vatican City, Oct 9, 2023 / 08:27 am (CNA). The Synod on Synodality at the Vatican will se... [...]
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John Henry Newman’s principled rebuke of secularism and our technocratic age
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Oct 09, 2023 04:00 amAs the world’s foremost English-speaking theologian, St. John Henry Newman (1801-1890) is often claimed as the champion of disparate, even warring, religious tribes. His groundbreaking work on conscience has endeared him to liberals even though [...]
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Consider the lilies and CO2: On the technocratic ironies of Laudate Deum
By Michael Dominic Taylor on Oct 08, 2023 08:12 pmBy virtue of its title, Laudate Deum invites us to return to St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures and to meditate upon his imitation of “the sensitivity of Jesus before the creatures of his Father,” [...]
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A timely exhortation shining light on three crucial realities of our age
By William L. Patenaude on Oct 08, 2023 08:10 pmThe 2015 release of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ surprised and often disappointed a good many who had been anticipating a papal document devoted to climate change. Laudato Si’, it turned out, was something more. [...]
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Does Mormonism ruin faith?
By Casey Chalk on Oct 08, 2023 03:21 pmRecently I had the pleasure of spending an evening over drinks with two former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormons. Both men had completed their two-year [...]
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The perdurance of liberal theology
By Larry Chapp on Oct 07, 2023 10:27 pmWhen I was in the seminary, I studied under the late great moral theologian Germain Grisez. Despite his deeply orthodox and conservative theological orientation, he was adamantly opposed to the pre-conciliar “Index of forbidden books” [...]
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Dozens killed in surprise Hamas attacks on Israel; Netanyahu says country ‘at war’
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 07, 2023 08:36 amCars are seen on fire following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023. / Credit: Ahmad Gharabali/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 7, 2023 / 09:36 am (CNA). Israel is "at war," Prime... [...]
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“God is in charge of management; I just work in sales.”
By Carl E. Olson on Oct 07, 2023 04:00 amOn the Readings for Sunday, October 8, 2017 [...]
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The Rosary: Overcoming evil and making reparation
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Oct 07, 2023 03:00 amThe Church dedicates the month of October to the Rosary, that simple but beautiful prayer filled with holy power. The Rosary offers us a great weapon in spiritual battle. After the Mass, no other prayer [...]
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Education as a spiritual work of mercy: An interview with Professor Kyle Washut
By Julian Kwasniewski on Oct 06, 2023 10:17 pmThis August, Professor Kyle Washut, S.T.L., S.T.M., was appointed fourth president of Wyoming Catholic College, a liberal arts college located in Lander, Wyoming. Wyoming Catholic offers a four year program that seeks to form the [...]
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Beauty, reality, and craft
By Anna Farrow on Oct 06, 2023 09:28 pmWith a poetry collection conceived in the mud and water of Ontario’s Credit River, Catholic artist Maya Clubine is the most recent recipient of the prestigious Vallum Chapbook Award for her work Life Cycle of a [...]
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Laudate Deum, the environment, and technology in context
By Thomas M. Doran on Oct 06, 2023 06:28 pmAs I intend to reflect on Pope Francis’s letter Laudate Deum in the context of my own experience with the environment, I must first provide background for my observations. As an engineer, scientist, and teacher who [...]
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