Pentecost and the Priesthood
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jun 08, 2025 04:00 amNote: The following homily was preached on Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025, at the Church of the Transfiguration in Syracuse, New York. Wind, fire, thunder and lightning. The Sacred Scriptures are replete with instances of [...]
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The Ritual is rinse and repeat, with few redeeming qualities
By Sean Fitzpatrick on Jun 08, 2025 12:41 amThis June sees the theatrical release of yet another Hollywood film about demonic possession and it is getting attention from some Catholics. The Ritual stars the great Al Pacino and Dan Stevens as the priests [...]
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Catholic journalist Ross Douthat discusses Pope Leo, religious revival, JD Vance
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 07, 2025 02:00 pmNew York Times columnist Ross Douthat speaks to "EWTN News in Depth" Anchor Catherine Hadro on Friday, June 6, 2025 / Credit: EWTN News CNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Americans could be on the cusp of a religious revival. ac... [...]
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Three Births and the Third Person of the Trinity
By Carl E. Olson on Jun 07, 2025 12:00 pmReadings: • Acts 2:1-11 • Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Rom 8:8-17 • Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 He is silent, yet sounds like rushing wind; he [...]
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On Winters’ barren attacks and Barron’s effective evangelization
By Larry Chapp on Jun 07, 2025 01:07 amI usually ignore the writings of Michael Sean Winters at the National Catholic Reporter. However, a friend of mine emailed me a link to Winter’s latest piece. As I expected, it was the usual boilerplate [...]
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Petition to Pope Leo XIV to remove German cardinal gains over 60K signatures
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 06, 2025 04:00 pmCardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of Cologne in Germany. / Credit: Marko Orlovic/German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Here’s a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that yo... [...]
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Rediscovering the memorable Saint Anthony of PaduaBy Dawn Beutner on Jun 13, 2025 03:00 amCatholic saints sometimes become popular for strange reasons. Saint Nicholas, bishop of the early Church, may have inspired the legend of Saint Nick, but he bore little resemblance to today’s chubby Santa Claus. Saint Ambrose [...] Read in browser » The idolatry and “religion” of our present ageBy Dr. Christopher Shannon on Jun 12, 2025 10:48 pmMy previous article on history and nationalism elicited far more responses than I had anticipated. What I saw simply as a window into one aspect of American Catholic intellectual life seems to have touched a [...] Read in browser » A journey through story and soul with Joseph PearceBy Tim Mitchell on Jun 12, 2025 07:31 pmTravelling through Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane (and the stunning New South Wales towns of Armidale and Newcastle) during the cool, golden days of late autumn 2025 in south-eastern Australia, I had the great pleasure of accompanying [...] Read in browser » Why we need the Eastern Churches, in Pope Leo XIV’s own wordsBy Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jun 12, 2025 04:00 am“The Church needs you.” In the first week of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV spoke these words to members of the Eastern Catholic Churches gathered in Rome to celebrate the Jubilee. On June 2nd, he [...] Read in browser » Cultivating the Soul: Gardening as CatechesisBy Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. on Jun 12, 2025 12:19 amIt has been a good stretch in the Ramage garden lately—or at least a busy one. Between harvesting greens, picking the season’s first strawberries, watering young tomato plants, and doing battle with proliferating weeds, my [...] Read in browser » The Federal Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act: A Deep DiveBy John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jun 11, 2025 07:14 pmIt’s hard to believe, but 32 years have passed since enactment of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA, P.L. 103-141), a 1993 law that clarified federal policy as promoting religious freedom domestically. RFRA came in [...] Read in browser » Italian abuse survivor: Bishops’ report doesn’t show full scale of crisisBy Catholic News Agency on Jun 11, 2025 01:50 pmnull / Credit: Korawat photo shoot/Shutterstock Rome, Italy, Jun 11, 2025 / 10:46 am (CNA). The head of a sex abuse survivors’ group in Italy expressed his doubts that a recent report on safeguarding efforts published by the Italian bishops’ co... [...] Read in browser » Down in my heart to stayBy David Paul Deavel on Jun 11, 2025 01:17 pmNever judge a book, we are told, solely by its cover. Nor should we do so by its bibliographical information. While Shemaiah Gonzalez’s first book is published under the Zondervan Academic imprint, those who expect [...] Read in browser » Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, June 11, 2025By CWR Staff on Jun 11, 2025 03:00 amPublic Discourse Degenerating Into Infantile Tantrums- “Ours is a culture not merely characterized by the death of old moral values but their intentional and exultant destruction.” Pride Month and the Infantilization of Society (First Things) [...] Read in browser » Comparing the affinities, differences between Ignatius and AquinasBy Tracey Rowland on Jun 10, 2025 04:00 amSometime last century, at the Fisher House chaplaincy in Cambridge, the Dominican chaplain told a joke in his homily—it was the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola—about the difference between Jesuits and Dominicans. He explained [...] Read in browser » Vatican News removes Rupnik art from websiteBy Catholic News Agency on Jun 09, 2025 10:08 amFather Marko Rupnik in an interview with EWTN in 2020. / Credit: EWTN Vatican City, Jun 9, 2025 / 11:08 am (CNA). The Vatican on Monday removed artwork by former Jesuit Father Marko Ivan Rupnik from its official websites.Digital images of the S... [...] Read in browser » Imagine Liturgical PeaceBy Mark Brumley on Jun 09, 2025 04:00 amSurprise! The Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) has returned as a hot-button issue, if it ever really left. Singapore’s Cardinal William Goh Seng Chye hopes restrictions on the TLM will be dropped, The Catholic Herald reports. In [...] Read in browser » Blessed Anna Maria Taigi: A mother and a mysticBy Dawn Beutner on Jun 09, 2025 03:00 amWhen we think of great Catholic mystics, names like Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and Margaret Mary Alacoque come to mind, along with modern saints such as Faustina Kowalska and Pio Forgione. But [...] Read in browser » |
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