Pier Giorgio Frassati: Friendship as a path to holiness
By Dawn Beutner on Jul 04, 2025 04:00 amWhile Catholic youth ministers and young adult group leaders all over the world think he’s a rock star, most Catholics have never heard of him. Since Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925) is scheduled to be declared [...]
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10 things you should know about Catholics and the American Founding
By Bradley J. Birzer on Jul 04, 2025 03:30 amIn my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in general. The final three of those “10 things” mentioned Catholics and Catholicism, [...]
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An Englishman in post-revolutionary America: A Fourth of July reflection
By Joseph Pearce on Jul 03, 2025 08:00 pmAs Americans celebrate their independence from England, it is worth remembering an Englishman, later to be lionized by G. K. Chesterton, who moved to the United States in 1792, when the American nation was in [...]
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Liberty without life is a lie that must die
By Susan Ciancio on Jul 03, 2025 05:00 pmAs we prepare to celebrate the freedom that our country is known for—the freedom that so many brave men and women fought for—it behooves us to take a moment and reflect on the true meaning [...]
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Vatican downplays leaked documents on Latin Mass
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 03, 2025 01:15 pmThe Confiteor at a Traditional Latin Mass. / Credit: James Bradley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Jul 3, 2025 / 09:15 am (CNA). A Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appe... [...]
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The Gospel, politics, and love of God
By James Kalb on Jul 03, 2025 03:00 amLike nature and grace, law and love have a complex and subtle relationship. Many Catholics insistently favor bridges over walls, inspiration over tradition, the spirit over the letter, and love over laws and institutions. They [...]
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Slipping Scripture past the modern cultural dragons
By Jerry Salyer on Jul 02, 2025 06:28 pmReflecting upon the post-Christian West’s bias against Christianity, G. K. Chesterton once suggested that his modern-minded countrymen regard the Twelve Apostles “as Chinamen, and judge them fairly as Chinamen,” and think of the Gospel “as [...]
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Vatican grants exemption from Traditional Latin Mass restrictions to Texas parish
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 02, 2025 05:51 pmAn exemption to the restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass has been granted to a parish in the Archdiocese of San Angelo, Texas. / Credit: James Bradley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 2, 2025 / 14:51 pm (CN... [...]
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Independence Day #249
By George Weigel on Jul 02, 2025 04:00 amIn the twelve months leading up to next year’s American semiquincentennial, the tale will frequently be told of Benjamin Franklin’s encounter with Philadelphia matron Elizabeth Willing Powel, who asked, as Franklin left the Constitutional Convention: “Well, Doctor, [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, July 2, 2025
By CWR Staff on Jul 02, 2025 03:00 amWas Traditionis Custodes Based on Falsehoods? – “Previously undisclosed documents raise serious questions about the stated rationale for Pope Francis’ 2021 decree restricting the Traditional Latin Mass.” EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in [...]
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Mozambique insurgents decried as ‘devils’ preying on children
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Jul 01, 2025 08:30 pmJohan Viljoen, Director of the Denis Hurley Peace Institute of the South African Bishops’ Conference, has issued a stark condemnation of the armed groups operating in Mozambique, labeling them as “devils.” In comments to CWR, [...]
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Cardinal Ambongo: Opposition to same-sex blessings not an ‘African exception’
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 01, 2025 03:47 pmCardinal Fridolin Ambongo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar. / Credit: François-Régis Salefran CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Vatican City, Jul 1, 2025 / 14:47 pm (CNA). The leader of Africa’s Catholic bishops pus... [...]
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The quintessential American saint who was never an American
By Dawn Beutner on Jul 01, 2025 10:00 amJunípero Serra Ferrer, OFM, died on August 28, 1784, almost seven decades before California became a U.S. state. But it is certainly fitting for Catholics to consider him an American saint. After all, he lived [...]
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The changing fortunes of Catholic “Founding Father” in American history
By Kevin Schmiesing on Jul 01, 2025 03:00 amAs Catholic Americans prepare to mark Independence Day, we naturally look not only to the well-known “founding fathers” such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington but also to our Catholic forbears who were [...]
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Catholic progressives and the development of sexual doctrine
By Matthew Becklo on Jun 30, 2025 06:21 pmIn 2023, the newly minted cardinal Robert Prevost was asked by CNS about comments he made a decade earlier on “beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel,” including abortion and the “homosexual lifestyle.” Had his views [...]
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British politician criticizes priest for refusing communion over assisted dying vote
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 30, 2025 10:00 amThe British Parliament building in London. / Credit: Marinesea/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Jun 29, 2025 / 19:05 pm (CNA). A British politician has publicly criticized his parish priest for refusing to give him Holy Communion after he voted in fa... [...]
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In Praise of Judgment
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Jun 29, 2025 10:30 pmRemember when we heard about “tolerance” constantly? A few decades ago, tolerance was “in”—we were told to tolerate others’ opinions and actions, regardless of what they may be. Some even called tolerance a virtue. In [...]
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Catholic speaker Kim Zember in new EWTN podcast highlights LGBT conversion stories
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 29, 2025 02:00 pmCatholic speaker and author Kim Zember (left) and Zember on the set of her new podcast on EWTN, “Here I AM Stories,” with guest Angel Colon. / Credit: Photos courtesy of Kim Zember CNA Staff, Jun 29, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). During her senior yea... [...]
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Dion DiMucci’s tales of wandering, recovery, and loving God
By Michael Mastromatteo on Jun 28, 2025 08:00 pmIn addition to his many achievements during seven decades in the music business, the singer, songwriter, and rocker Dion DiMucci can well be considered a survivor. The Bronx, New York native, who shot to fame [...]
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Sinners, Apostles, Martyrs: On the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul
By Carl E. Olson on Jun 28, 2025 02:00 pmReadings for Sunday, June 29, 2025: • Acts 12:1-11 • Psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 • Matthew 16:13-19 One denied Christ after having been chosen by him. The other was [...]
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The Supreme Court, LGBTQ+ indoctrination, and switching the story
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jun 27, 2025 10:24 pmThe Supreme Court, on June 27th, upheld the right of parents to remove their children from gender-laden indoctrination in public schools. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Court ruled 6-3 that Montgomery County, Maryland, violated the [...]
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SCOTUS upholds parental rights in religious upbringing of their children
By Charles J. Russo on Jun 27, 2025 05:08 pmOn June 27th, the final day of its 2024-25 term, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most significant rulings ever in favor of parents’ rights to direct the educational upbringing of their children. [...]
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Pope Leo XIV to bestow pallium on these 8 U.S. archbishops
By Catholic News Agency on Jun 27, 2025 09:00 amArchbishops wear the pallium they received from Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica, June 29, 2014. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Jun 27, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Sunday will bless and bestow the “pallium” — a white w... [...]
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