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Friday, October 17, 2025

The living dead and the grateful living

Bishops warn of “ecocidal tragedy” as illegal mining devastates Ghana

By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Oct 11, 2025 04:50 pm
The Catholic bishops in Ghana have warned that the government risks being complicit in the “ecocidal tragedy of monumental proportions” if it fails to act swiftly and decisively on illegal gold mining, known locally as [...]
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Israelis, Gazan Christians, Catholics in U.S. weigh in on historic peace deal

By Catholic News Agency on Oct 11, 2025 02:00 pm
Daniel Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and former foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaks with “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Veronica Dudo on Oct. 10, 2025.  / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” Washington, D.C. ... [...]
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The living dead and the grateful living

By Carl E. Olson on Oct 11, 2025 11:00 am
Readings: • 2 Kgs 5:14-17 • Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 • 2 Tim 2:8-13 • Lk 17:11-19 Zombies have long been a part of popular culture, with numerous movies and books presenting stories about the [...]
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Reflections on Dilexi Te, the first magisterial document of Leo XIV’s papacy

By Larry Chapp on Oct 10, 2025 06:43 pm
Pope Leo XIV’s first magisterial document of his papacy, Dilexi Te (“I have loved you”), has understandably generated a lot of interest. An apostolic exhortation is a fairly low-level document in terms of the classical criteria for [...]
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Soul on Fire is a cinematic testament to perseverance, but also something deeper

By Nick Olszyk on Oct 10, 2025 03:45 pm
MPAA Rating: PG Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels By this point in 2025, there are dozens of Christian films about heroic individuals overcoming difficult obstacles through personal faith and the charity of those [...]
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How not to limit free speech

By Dr. Edward Feser on Oct 16, 2025 09:12 pm
I am by no means a free speech absolutist. In an article at Postliberal Order a couple of years ago, I set out the natural law position on the issue, noting that the teleology or final cause of [...]
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Can the twain ever meet?

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Oct 16, 2025 07:53 pm
The liturgy wars of the 1970s and 1980s have erupted again in recent years, starting with the motu proprio of Pope Francis, Traditionis Custodes, seeking to reverse the course set by Pope Benedict XVI in Summorum Pontificum, which gave [...]
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Leo XIV: Our Anti-Americanist Pope

By Kenneth Craycraft on Oct 15, 2025 10:04 pm
One of the more noteworthy episodes during the late nineteenth-century tenure of Pope Leo XIII was the pope’s response to the so-called “Americanist” controversy in the United States. Leo XIII wrote two encyclicals addressing issues [...]
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Canterbury’s graffiti and the lost sense of holiness, goodness, and beauty

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Oct 15, 2025 07:40 pm
News of the “decorating” of the Anglican cathedral in Canterbury with graffiti has been met with mixed explanations and reactions. The cathedral’s dean, David Monteith, explained that festooning it with graffiti gave voice to “marginalized [...]
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Pope Leo XIV appoints Cardinal Cupich to Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State

By Catholic News Agency on Oct 15, 2025 03:43 pm
Pope Leo and Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/EWTN News CNA Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 15:43 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has appointed Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich to the Pontifical Commiss... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, October 15, 2025

By CWR Staff on Oct 15, 2025 03:00 am
Problematic Liberties and Competing Liberalisms – “At the founding of our nation, the definition of individual liberty seemed Christian, when in fact it wasn’t—at least not entirely.” A Clash of Liberalisms (What We Need Now) [...]
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A beautiful book of prayers for children that is challenging and accessible

By Christopher R. Altieri on Oct 14, 2025 08:45 pm
I remember a conversation over dinner in Rome, which turned to the subject of teaching children to pray. It was a convivial evening, and the better part of two decades ago, so my recollection is—shall [...]
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Catholicism and Israel: Perspective and insight from a Dominican theologian

By Casey Chalk on Oct 14, 2025 04:54 pm
The last two years have provoked a significant amount of debate in Catholic circles as to how the Church should understand and relate to the modern state of Israel. Prominent Catholic politicians profess ‘unwavering support’ [...]
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Cardinal presides over act of reparation in St. Peter’s following desecration of altar

By Catholic News Agency on Oct 14, 2025 12:09 am
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 17:43 pm Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and vicar general of the pope for Vatican City, presided Oct. 13 over a penitential rite of reparation [...]
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Ten observations about the Eucharist-at-ICE incident in Illinois

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Oct 13, 2025 07:13 pm
Two days ago, on Saturday, October 12th: A delegation of Catholic priests, nuns and lay leaders were among hundreds of people from Chicago and the suburbs who marched from Maywood to Broadview Saturday in hopes [...]
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Vatican appoints judges to decide Rupnik sexual abuse case

By Catholic News Agency on Oct 13, 2025 11:23 am
Father Marko Rupnik, SJ, in an interview with EWTN in 2020. / Credit: EWTN Vatican City, Oct 13, 2025 / 12:23 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s doctrine office announced Monday that a panel of five judges has been nominated to decide the disciplinary cas... [...]
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The need for the Madonna in reforming our culture

By Joseph K. Woodard on Oct 12, 2025 08:54 pm
As Tom Holland’s 2021 book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World reveals, in every past civilization (even our Greco-Roman forbearers), women were either commodities, guarded by their families as dynastic assets, or simply booty, “sex [...]
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The Light of Our Faith is a compelling and rich history of Catholic liturgy

By Shawn Phillip Cooper, PhD on Oct 12, 2025 06:51 pm
For nearly thirty years, those interested in learning about the vast and complex history of the Catholic Church’s liturgy have had recourse to Marcel Metzger’s History of the Liturgy: The Major Stages. Translated from the [...]
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