The Founders and the Fathers on the American class system

Painful consequences prove the “right to privacy” is wrong By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Feb 20, 2025 08:00 pm The “right to privacy,” invented by the Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut (which was argued in March 1965 and decided in June 1965) is a cleverly woven fig leaf for immorality. It transferred moral [...] Read in browser » Friend of Francis: Pope’s health situation is ‘delicate’ but not cause for alarm By Catholic News Agency on Feb 20, 2025 03:45 pm Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro. / Credit: Antoniospadaro, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Feb 20, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Speaking on Pope Francis’ current health crisis, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, a personal friend of the H... [...] Read in browser » Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issues Health and Human Services guidance: ‘There are only two sexes’ By Catholic News Agency on Feb 20, 2025 02:05 pm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images CNA Staff, Feb 20, 2025 / 13:05 pm (CNA). Th... [...] Read in browser » Keeping it real, one poem and police investigation at a time By Andrew Petiprin on Feb 19, 2025 10:02 pm “Reality is not just what we see,” Sarah Cortez told me in a recent interview for the Ignatius Press podcast. “For me, as a poet,” she elaborated, “my vocation or calling is to try to bring the [...] Read in browser » Jihadism, food crisis are undermining “reception of the gospel” in Nigeria By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Feb 19, 2025 06:44 pm A leading Nigerian Catholic researcher and criminologist says insecurity, chronic over-borrowing, climate change, inflation, and corruption have pushed millions of people into hunger. And that, in turn, is making it harder for them to receive [...] Read in browser » Doctors say Pope Francis shows ‘slight improvement’ while in hospital By Catholic News Agency on Feb 19, 2025 04:20 pm Left: Banners at Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital. Right: Pope Francis waves from a wheelchair, Feb. 13, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Feb 19, 2025 / 14:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ health condition has remained stable as he c... [...] Read in browser » Cathedrals and us By George Weigel on Feb 19, 2025 04:00 am The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent Neo-Gothic structure, based on 14th-century English models, that calls itself “Washington National Cathedral”: a non-sequitur repeated by many others. [...] Read in browser » Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, February 19, 2025 By CWR Staff on Feb 19, 2025 03:00 am Anti-American Bias – “In a letter ostensibly written to support the bishops of the US, Pope Francis has actually made life considerably more difficult for them.” The Pope’s disastrous letter on immigration (Catholic Culture) Grace [...] Read in browser » Female Anglican minister ‘concelebrates’ Mass for the installation of Catholic archbishop, takes Communion By Catholic News Agency on Feb 18, 2025 05:20 pm Anglican minister Vivian Schwanke De Oliveira in the entrance procession of the Mass for the installation of the archbishop of Chapecó in Brazil. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdiocese of Chapecó/Screenshot Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb 18, 2025 / 16:... [...] Read in browser » The familial school of sanctity and mercy By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Feb 18, 2025 02:23 pm Today is the anniversary of the death of Karol Wojtyla. Not of Pope John Paul the Great but of his father, Karol Wojtyla, senior. I also learned today—coming to the realization about four years too [...] Read in browser » The dangers of arbitrary government at home and in Rome By Christopher R. Altieri on Feb 18, 2025 04:00 am “Arbitrariness creates fear and mistrust,” the senior prelate said. “It undermines mutual trust,” he said. “Nothing can be relied on anymore,” he said. The senior prelate was Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, emeritus of Vienna and a [...] Read in browser » For Sugarcane, the horror is in the telling By Anna Farrow on Feb 18, 2025 03:00 am The genesis of the Oscar-nominated film Sugarcane is located in the story surrounding the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation when it announced the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential [...] Read in browser » Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the United States: A Look at the Numbers By J. J. Ziegler on Feb 17, 2025 08:36 pm 2,980 men are preparing for priestly ordination as diocesan seminarians in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, according to data published in the most recent (2024) edition of The Official Catholic Directory. Diocesan chancery offices [...] Read in browser » Persevering in faithfulness to Christ’s Church during ecclesial uncertainty By Paul Senz on Feb 16, 2025 10:16 pm The Church, throughout her long history, has faced many terrible trials, united her in a deep and real way with the sufferings of Jesus. How can we be the saints the Church needs today, during [...] Read in browser » School officials ban crucifix in CT school; Catholic teacher files suit By Charles J. Russo on Feb 16, 2025 09:19 pm In December of last year, officials in the New Britain, Connecticut, school district suspended teacher Marisol Arroyo-Castro for insubordination after she ignored their orders to remove a small crucifix from near her desk. This essay [...] Read in browser » From international pickpocket to redemption: Víctor Sono’s story By Catholic News Agency on Feb 16, 2025 06:00 pm Notorious former international pickpocket Víctor Sono Neira. / Credit: Diego López Marina/ACI Prensa Lima Newsroom, Feb 16, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). Víctor Sono Neira spent years trapped in addiction and crime as an international pickpocket. In a... [...] Read in browser » Septuagesimatide: Slow and steady progress is the Catholic way By David Paul Deavel on Feb 15, 2025 08:00 pm Human beings are often awed by dramatic and immediate transformations. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing: the seemingly miraculous turns in someone else often reveal to us possibilities for ourselves that we thought impossible. But, [...] Read in browser » New book explores how Catholics experience the Bible By Michael Mastromatteo on Feb 15, 2025 03:00 pm Fordham University theology professor Michael Peppard shares an interesting anecdote about when he and his publisher were trying to find the right title for his new book. An editor suggested his book about Catholic biblical [...] Read in browser » The King is the Context By Carl E. Olson on Feb 15, 2025 11:00 am Readings: • Jer 17:5-8 • Psa 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 • 1 Cor 15:12, 16-20 • Lk 6:17, 20-26 “Context,” I have read, “is king.” While such a saying should itself be read and [...] Read in browser » Tending God’s Garden: Adam’s Vocation and Ours By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. on Feb 14, 2025 11:22 pm Over the past few months, much of my time and energy has been devoted to a side project exploring God’s two books through the lens of Pope Benedict’s dialogue with atheism. Now, however, I’d like [...] Read in browser » Fertility rates show pro-life laws saved 22,000 lives in 2023, study finds  By Catholic News Agency on Feb 14, 2025 06:05 pm null / Credit: maxim ibragimov/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2025 / 18:05 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life- and abortion-related news. Pro-life policies save lives, study finds  Following the adoption of pro-life ... [...] Read in browser » The Founders and the Fathers on the American class system By Fr. Dn. Christopher B. Warner on Feb 14, 2025 05:00 pm At no other time in history have Westerners been so out of touch with economic reality. The socialist ideal of “income equality,” for example, is not a Christian idea. Equal dignity as human persons created [...] Read in browser »