The Diocese of Gary vs. the Department of Education: A comparison
By Daniel B. Gallagher on Feb 28, 2025 09:48 pmLast June, the Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation made the largest single investment in PreK-12 education in history. The non-profit promised to donate $150 million to the Big Shoulders Fund over the next ten years to [...]
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Pope Francis ventilated after ‘sudden worsening’ of respiratory condition
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 28, 2025 01:58 pmThe chapel at Gemelli Hosptial in Rome bears the name and contains a relic of another pope who knew these corridors well: St. John Paul II. The Polish pontiff was hospitalized here multiple times, including after an assassination attempt in 1981... [...]
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Felicity and Perpetua: On the Horns of Heroic Dilemma
By Sean Fitzpatrick on Mar 07, 2025 03:00 amThe expression “caught on the horns of a dilemma” derives from the undesirable situation of facing a charging bull and having to choose which horn to be gored upon. Life is full of such terrible [...]
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Amid escalating deaths and displacement, bishops urge swift action in Congo
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Mar 06, 2025 08:39 pmCatholic bishops in Central Africa have called on regional leaders to take swift action in the implementation of the peace resolutions to end the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Death [...]
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Nigerian diocese pays tribute to priest who was murdered on Ash Wednesday
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 06, 2025 11:45 amFather Sylvester Okechukwu of the Diocese of Kafanchan in Nigeria was found murdered on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. / Credit: Diocese of Kafanchan, Nigeria ACI Africa, Mar 6, 2025 / 12:45 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Kafanchan in Nigeria is payin... [...]
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Faithfulness, Not Success: The Lessons of The Edge of Sadness
By Conor Dugan on Mar 06, 2025 04:00 amThe fifty-year period between 1920 and 1970 was a golden age for the Catholic novel. Among the great novels published in that fertile period are Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, Georges Bernanos’ The Diary of a Country [...]
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Lent and the Penitential Rite: Acknowledging we are sinners
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Mar 05, 2025 12:00 pmLent is a time especially focused on conversion, on turning from sin and turning to God. Conversion, on the other hand, is not limited to one time or season. It is the ongoing work of [...]
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Lent and the purification of memory
By George Weigel on Mar 05, 2025 04:30 amOn December 20, 2002, I was at lunch in the papal apartment when the wide-ranging conversation John Paul II always encouraged took an unexpected turn, with the pope asking me how President Ronald Reagan was [...]
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“One step enough for me”: Lent is upon us!
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Mar 05, 2025 04:00 amThe following homily was preached at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Lent is upon us. And the first step in having a successful, productive Lent is [..]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, March 5, 2025
By CWR Staff on Mar 05, 2025 03:00 amSchool of Repentance – ‘What are you giving up for Lent?’ While the question might be common in many Christian circles, it seems that answers to it are, well, increasingly creative.” Lent and the Divine [...]
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A guide to seeking the Holy Face during Lent
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Mar 04, 2025 03:26 pmOn September 13, 1843, Our Lord spoke to the heart of a Carmelite nun in the city of Tours, France. Jesus told her that He was calling her to a program of reparation for sins [...]
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Know thyself: a Lenten education
By David Paul Deavel on Mar 04, 2025 02:00 pm“What are you doing for Lent?” It’s a good question. Parents often ask their children. Friends ask each other. If we haven’t been preparing ourselves during the “pre-Lent” period found in many Catholic rites, we may well [...]
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When the Church condemned books: A short history of the Index
By Sandra Miesel on Mar 04, 2025 12:43 amThe final edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1940) is a drab little volume smaller than the average paperback. Bound in soft gray cardboard, its 510 flimsy pages—plus front matter and appendices—record the Church’s last [...]
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Five ways to advance God’s Kingdom, courtesy of Saint Peter
By Susan Ciancio on Mar 03, 2025 08:08 pmI am a longtime fan of the Babylon Bee, which writes “satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life,” I was more than amused by a recent headline that read, “Uh Oh: Saint Peter Starts Asking Everyone at Pearly [...]
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Pope Francis had two episodes of ‘acute respiratory insufficiency,’ Vatican says
By Catholic News Agency on Mar 03, 2025 01:35 pmA balloon with an image of Pope Francis stands outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia. Pope Francis suffered two new breathing attacks on March 3, 2025, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old pontiff st... [...]
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The Church’s “Ultimate Trial”
By Bishop Donald J. Hying on Mar 02, 2025 11:06 pmAn intriguing paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I have often pondered, is #675: The Church’s ultimate trial. Before Christ’s second coming, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake [...]
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A Week at Canary Wharf
By Tracey Rowland on Mar 02, 2025 10:16 pmThe ExCel Conference Centre near Canary Wharf in the East End of London was recently the location for two major conferences: the 2025 ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) event, and a Word on Fire conference [...]
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Officials in MA ban t-shirt stating “There Are Only Two Genders”
By Charles J. Russo on Mar 02, 2025 06:33 pmAs issues involving sexuality increasingly encroach on daily activities, including in schools, controversies increase over the messages educators allow students to communicate defending what are now euphemistically referred to as “traditional values.” In a recent [...]
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Yet another comment on ordo amoris
By James Kalb on Mar 01, 2025 11:12 pmVice President JD Vance’s recent comment that we should love and assist those close to us before those who are more distant provoked an outburst of argument that eventually involved even the Pope. The comment [...]
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