Scandal begets a society that devalues human beings
By Susan Ciancio on Apr 26, 2024 04:00 amMerriam-Webster defines scandal as “malicious or defamatory gossip,” a “disgrace,” or “a circumstance or action that offends propriety or established moral conceptions.” Those are probably the definitions most people are familiar with. But they barely touch upon [...]
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Pope Francis may visit United States in September after UN invitation
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on Apr 25, 2024 02:22 pm
Toward a Confessing Church
By Francis X. Maier on Apr 25, 2024 09:00 amNote: Earlier this spring, Ignatius Press published “True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church.” The author delivered these remarks at the University of Dallas on April 19. I’d like these comments to [...]
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Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 24, 2024 11:42 pmA week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...]
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Cisco CEO meets Pope Francis, signs AI ethics pledge at Vatican
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 24, 2024 06:06 pmChuck Robbins, the chief executive of the multinational digital communications conglomerate Cisco, signs the Rome Call for AI Ethics, a document by the Pontifical Academy for Life, on April 24, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome... [...]
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Thoughts on Dignitas Infinita
By George Weigel on Apr 24, 2024 11:00 amWhen the always well-written and often wrongheaded New Yorker dislikes something, chances are good that I’ll like it – a principle that holds, with certain reservations, in the case of Dignitas Infinita, the April 8 “Declaration of the Dicastery for [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, April 24, 2024
By CWR Staff on Apr 24, 2024 03:00 amHunger for God – “After researching the origins and studying the sacred texts of major world religions, [Megan] zeroed in the Bible. Ultimately it was the Eucharist and eucharistic miracles that sold her.” Conversions, reversions [...]
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“Welcome to the Reign of Gay”, a decade later
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 23, 2024 07:35 pmTen years ago, I wrote a CWR editorial titled “Welcome to the Reign of Gay”. In some ways, it seems more like fifty years ago, as the cultural and moral landscape has not just shifted, [...]
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Humanality project helps Catholic students escape screens, engage reality
By Julian Kwasniewski on Apr 23, 2024 06:59 pmAcross all sectors of society, strange and insane behaviors seem to be accelerating. With AI bursting on the public scene, mental health metrics plummeting across the globe, and the reliability of the media at an [...]
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There is no going back, just going through
By Christopher R. Altieri on Apr 22, 2024 08:14 pm“I just want to go back to before,” says FBI Agent Olivia Dunham to Special Agent-in-Charge Phillip Broyles in the pilot episode of the science fiction series, Fringe (2008-13). Dunham is a good agent who found [...]
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Pew Research: Biden in trouble with Catholic voters
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 22, 2024 01:00 pmPresident Joe Biden leaves after attending Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 27, 2023. / Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Pittsburgh, Pa., Apr 22, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden, ... [...]
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Can I still meet my future spouse in real life?
By Rachel Hoover Canto on Apr 22, 2024 11:42 amIf you’re a single Catholic desirous of marriage, and you ask the Internet how to meet your spouse, you will invariably be given the same two suggestions: “Go to Mass and talk to anyone who [...]
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The poetic waters run deep in Jane Clark Scharl’s Ponds
By Shawn Phillip Cooper, PhD on Apr 21, 2024 07:34 pmIn early 2023, Jane Clark Scharl debuted her verse drama Sonnez Les Matines to appreciative audiences in New York City. The ability to sustain a successful drama in verse—and good verse, at that—was a worthy testament [...]
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Historic New York church with link to John Paul II struggles to stay open
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 21, 2024 02:00 pmThe nave of St. Casimir Church in Buffalo, New York. / Credit: Michael Shriver/buffalophotoblog.com CNA Staff, Apr 21, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). A historic Polish Catholic church in Buffalo, New York — one with a unique connection to St. John Paul... [...]
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Dialogue Is Never Enough
By James V. Schall, S.J. on Apr 21, 2024 08:00 amEditor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. Schall, was first published on October 25, 2005, at Ignatius Insight. “But Barnabas took him (Paul), and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how [...]
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Jesuit priest: Stories of Rwandan women ‘scarred by genocide’ must be told
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 20, 2024 12:30 pmFather Marcel Uwineza. / Credit: Sister Olga Massango/Daughters of St. Paul ACI Africa, Apr 20, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). Women who were sexually assaulted, infected with diseases, and forced into exile, among other brutalities during the 1994 gen... [...]
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One Christ, One Savior, One Shepherd
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 20, 2024 04:00 amOn the Readings for April 22, 2018, the Fourth Sunday of Easter [...]
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Telling children the story of St. Dominic, with help from man’s best friend
By CWR Staff on Apr 19, 2024 11:17 pmEleanor Bourg Nicholson is an award-winning novelist, scholar, Victorian literature instructor for Homeschool Connections, a Dominican tertiary, and a homeschooling mother of five. Hound of the Lord: The Story of Saint Dominic, written for children and from [...]
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Biden administration redefines sex discrimination in Title IX to include ‘gender identity’
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 19, 2024 03:30 pmnull / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 19, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA). President Joe Biden’s Department of Education issued new regulations on Friday, April 19, that prohibit discrimination based on a person’s “gender identity.”T... [...]
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