Time to move beyond “synoding”?
By George Weigel on Sep 03, 2025 04:00 amIn the first volume of his trilogy, Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI saluted the important contributions that historical-critical analysis of the literary forms and editorial “layers” of ancient texts had made to understanding the Bible. [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, September 3, 2025
By CWR Staff on Sep 03, 2025 03:06 amThe Loneliness Industry – “’What do loneliness and transhumanism have in common? They are built from the same foundation.” ”The loneliness industrial complex: How transhumanism profits from our isolation (Refine) Selective Synodality – “Why is it [...]
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The Conservative Catholic Project: Past, Present, and Future
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Sep 02, 2025 07:00 amThe day before his elevation to the Sacred College of Cardinals was announced, Archbishop Francis George of Chicago, delivering an unprepared homily at a Saturday evening Mass, threw down a challenge to “liberal Catholicism.” He called it [...]
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Three thoughts about prayers
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Sep 02, 2025 03:15 amIn the wake of the murder of children during Mass in a Minneapolis church, various politicians excoriated people who expressed sympathy by sending “thoughts and prayers.” It’s not the first time politicians have taken umbrage [...]
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Pope Leo XIV meets Fr. James Martin at the Vatican
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 01, 2025 02:00 pmFather James Martin, SJ. / Credit: Flickr by Shawn (CC BY-NC 2.0) Vatican City, Sep 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV met in a private audience with Father James Martin, S.J., at the Vatican on Monday.Martin, who is in Rome to lead a Jubil... [...]
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A Light That Shines in the Dark: A Conversion Story, Part Three
By Sara S. Frear, PhD on Sep 01, 2025 09:59 amIn my journey toward the Catholic Church, the Sacred Scriptures had been my daily companion and guide. I had been reading the Psalms each morning when I received the gift of healing from an eating [...]
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Public employee unions, American politics, and the Catholic Church
By Father George E. Schultze, SJ on Aug 31, 2025 11:32 pmSocial doctrine and labor unions In 1891, Pope Leo XIII wrote in Rerum Novarum that a worker’s wages should support the worker and his family. His understanding of marriage and family—which together form the nucleus [...]
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Sisters of Life launch new website offering pro-life support, resources for women
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 31, 2025 03:00 pmnull / Credit: David Gyung/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 31, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Sisters of Life have launched a new website providing resources and support for women considering an abortion, women seeking healing after having an abortion,... [...]
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Dr. Newman’s guide to being a good convert
By David Paul Deavel on Aug 30, 2025 07:54 pmThe Vatican announcement that Pope Leo has approved a motion to make St. John Henry Newman the thirty-eighth Doctor of the Church elicited great joy in many Catholics, especially those who attribute their conversions, under [...]
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Humility, Wisdom, and Moral Realism
By Carl E. Olson on Aug 30, 2025 01:00 pmReadings: • Sir. 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 • Psa. 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 • Heb. 12:18-19, 22-24a • Lk. 14:1, 7-14 “Humility,” the Evangelical theologian James Houston once wrote, “is moral realism.” That simple definition stuck with [...]
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Preparing for spiritual battle with the St. Michael Chaplet
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Aug 30, 2025 04:23 amThis year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. Regardless of one’s opinion of the Council itself, it is undeniable that its aftermath saw a severe decline in the devotional [...]
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Minneapolis Catholic church shooter expressed regret about ‘gender transition’
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 29, 2025 10:00 amPolice cruisers near Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025, following a mass shooting that killed two children and injured 17 others, 14 of them children. / Credit: Chad Davis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington,... [...]
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The Gospel according to a childBy Nick Olszyk on Sep 05, 2025 05:00 amMPAA Rating: G Reel Rating: 5 out of 5 reels Earlier this year, I said The King of Kings was the greatest animated Gospel story. I spoke too soon. I now think it is Light of the [...] Read in browser » Why is there so much political hatred today?By James Kalb on Sep 05, 2025 02:10 amWhy is there so much political hatred today? It’s not just online discussion, where it can seem that everybody hates everybody. Nor is it just the Church, where the Francis papacy has heightened differing positions [...] Read in browser » Ancient history and modern EnglandBy Joanna Bogle on Sep 04, 2025 11:38 pmFor the past couple of decades, I have been leading Catholic History Walks around London, and loving it. Obviously, a good number of the walkers are Americans, who are either discovering the Walks via my [...] Read in browser » No greater love: On the witness of priests on the battlefieldBy Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Sep 04, 2025 12:53 pmNearly sixty years ago, on September 4, 1967, a US military chaplain fell in the fields of Vietnam, killed while attempting to comfort and administer last rites to the wounded and dying. Fr. Vincent Capodanno, [...] Read in browser » Sept. 7th Rosary Rally at Notre Dame will mark 75th anniversary of 1950 RallyBy Sean Salai on Sep 03, 2025 05:20 pmFr. David S. Marcham is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston who serves as the Vice Postulator and Guild Director for the Cause of Venerable Patrick Peyton. On September 7th, at 1:30 EDT, the University of [...] Read in browser » |
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