The use of human “bodyoids”: an alarming proposal
By Matthew Nelson on May 30, 2025 04:00 amMany of us know someone—and perhaps that “someone” is you—whose life depended on an organ transplant. Many also know how challenging it can be to procure a needed organ and receive it in time for [...]
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Why was “Joan of Arc” Mark Twain’s favorite among all his many books?
By Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin on May 30, 2025 03:00 amTo a certain extent, Twain's novel about the young, fifteenth-century French girl and Saint remains a puzzling act of devotion from a complicated man. [...]
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Leaked draft shows Charlotte bishop’s planned crackdown on traditional liturgical customs
By Catholic News Agency on May 29, 2025 05:42 pmCredit: PIGAMA/Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 29, 2025 / 12:42 pm (CNA). A leaked draft from Charlotte, North Carolina, Bishop Michael Martin, OFM Conv, shows the prelate’s far-reaching and highly detailed intent to crack down on what he describes... [...]
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The Ascension opens the doors to heaven to those who follow Christ
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on May 29, 2025 04:00 amThe Jesus of the Northeast, the Eastern Catholics, and those of the Anglican Ordinariate (and a few other ecclesiastical jurisdictions around the country) always catches His flight to Heaven on time, while His flight home [...]
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The Ascension reveals man’s calling to eternal, divine life
By Carl E. Olson on May 29, 2025 03:00 amReadings: • Acts 1:1-11 • Psa. 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 • Eph. 1:17-23 or Heb. 9:24-28; 10:19-23 • Lk 24:46-53 “He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.” The [...]
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Peter Kreeft’s spiritual autobiography is insightful and entertaining
By Casey Chalk on May 28, 2025 11:11 pmUnless you pay much attention to the tiny subculture that is Catholic-Calvinist ecumenical debate and apologetics, you likely wouldn’t know that the discussions can get quite heated and personal. When one respected Presbyterian pastor and [...]
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Massacre in Nigeria follows bishop’s U.S. testimony on Christian persecution
By Catholic News Agency on May 28, 2025 02:37 pmDoug Burton of Truth Nigeria speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Erik Rosales on May 27, 2025, about the brutal massacre in Nigeria that occurred May 25. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 28, 2025 / 10:37 ... [...]
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A Catholic fix for American higher education?
By George Weigel on May 28, 2025 04:00 amWhy are so many American colleges and universities in crisis? Drew Gilpin Faust, an accomplished Civil War historian, gave the answer, perhaps unwittingly, at her 2007 inauguration as the twenty-eighth president of Harvard University. Noting [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 28, 2025
By CWR Staff on May 28, 2025 03:00 amIslamist Militants in Nigeria – “Why are international institutions and human rights organizations turning a blind eye to the systematic killing and displacement of Christians?” The Silent Jihadi Genocide Against Christians in Nigeria (The European [...]
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In the Philippines, empty chapels spark call for Eucharistic renewal
By Catholic News Agency on May 27, 2025 08:00 amJesus exposed in the Blessed Sacrament. / Credit: Comunidade Javé Nissi via Pexels Manila, Philippines, May 27, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As the National Eucharistic Revival comes to an end in the United States this year, many believe there is a n... [..]
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Education and parents’ rights a century after Pierce v. Society of Sisters
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on May 26, 2025 10:55 pmJune 1, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (268 US 510). What’s that, you ask? And why should I care? Pierce was a unanimous Supreme [...]
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A Catholic Patriotism
By James Kalb on May 26, 2025 06:00 pmHow should we be good Catholics and good Americans? Until recently, that did not seem to be an issue to most of us. Separation of Church and State appeared to reconcile the Faith with a [...]
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Why we need more Philip Neris
By Rob Marco on May 26, 2025 04:00 amIn the Christian East, the yuródivyy is an iconic figure. Theirs is not a conventional sanctity, but one that seeks to brusquely overturn the tables of convention to set a place for the Divine. The “holy [...]
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Remembering three martyrs 80 years after the end of World War II
By Filip Mazurczak on May 25, 2025 11:00 pmMay 8th marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, in which more than fifty million human lives were lost. Today, our world is once again [...]
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Pope Leo XIV at the Regina Caeli: ‘I ask you to sustain me with your prayer and closeness’
By Catholic News Agency on May 25, 2025 06:10 pmPope Leo XIV prays the Regina Caeli from the window of the Apostolic Palace for the first time on May 25, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 25, 2025 / 09:10 am (CNA). In his first Regina Caeli from the window of the Apostolic Pala... [...]
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SCOTUS upholds demise of St. Isidore: A bump in the road or the end of aid?
By Charles J. Russo on May 25, 2025 08:00 amOn May 22, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a succinct, one-sentence order ending the litigation over whether Oklahoma could fund St. Isidore of Seville as the nation’s first virtual faith-based charter school under the direction of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese [...]
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Diocese of Charlotte will restrict Latin Mass in line with Pope Francis’ directive
By Catholic News Agency on May 24, 2025 11:30 amPriest celebrating the traditional Latin Mass at the church of St Pancratius, Rome / Thoom/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, May 24, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina will significantly restrict the practice of the Tradit... [...]
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Catholic. And Charismatic.
By Carl E. Olson on May 24, 2025 04:00 amReadings: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Psa. 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 Rev. 21:10-14, 22-23 Jn. 14:23-29 What is the largest body of charismatic Christians in the world? And when did the charismatic, or Pentecostal, movement begin? With [...]
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At a Secular University: Does God Talk to People?
By Peter D. Beaulieu on May 24, 2025 03:29 amIs it possible to detect the “tiny whispering sound” even at a secular university? Consider the story and influence of a particular Dominican priest, a convert whose evangelical spirit was a life ring at a [...]
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New Vision book tells the inspiring story of Fr. Michael McGivney
By Paul Senz on May 23, 2025 10:21 pmThe Vision series of lives of the saints chapter books has been inspiring young people for decades now. The original series was published in the middle of the 20th century, featuring saints including Joan of Arc, Dominic, Kateri [...]
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Pornography’s deadly grip on marriages today
By Sarah Cain on May 23, 2025 09:52 pmPornography is an inversion of conjugal love, and it is becoming ever more extreme and violent. As pornography has become more widely accepted and trivialized in secular culture, its most dangerous elements have increasingly been [...]
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Cardinal Goh says he expects clarity in teaching from Pope Leo XIV
By Catholic News Agency on May 23, 2025 10:55 amCardinal William Goh, the archbishop of Singapore. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 CNA Deutsch, May 23, 2025 / 11:55 am (CNA). In an interview with the Daily Compass portal on Thursday, Cardinal William Goh, the archbishop of Singapore... [...]
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