Are these the End Times? Yes and No.

Hebda: Catholics ‘depend on the Eucharist,’ and Masses will resume

By Catholic News Agency on May 22, 2020 01:22 am
Denver Newsroom, May 21, 2020 / 05:36 pm (CNA).- The day after announcing that parishes in Minnesota can ignore a statewide order on religious gatherings, the Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis explained the pastoral [...]
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The profitable Vatican Museums remain closed, look toward a June opening

By Michael Severance on May 21, 2020 08:10 pm
Every so often economics really is the “dismal science”, as Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle put it. Such has been the increasing state of misery as many businesses remain blocked by government public health orders all [...]
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Are these the End Times? Yes and No.

By Russell Shaw on May 21, 2020 06:01 pm
One of the more predictable byproducts of the coronavirus pandemic has been an uptick in apocalyptic warnings that the end of the world is at hand. The folks who send me emails announcing that covid-19 [...]
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COVID-19 and Real Demon in Democracy

By Brian Jones on May 21, 2020 04:50 pm
“The video you just sent to me was taken down by YouTube. Somebody is watching, and they are not your friend.” This is a message I received recently from a good friend who is a [...]
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Meeting Christ In His Church: On the Feast of the Ascension

By Fr. Charles Fox on May 21, 2020 01:00 am
About 45 minutes outside of Detroit, there is a Protestant church I pass by several times a year, and for years now this church has had a curious sign in front of it. The sign [...]
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The Ascension: Continuing closeness and source of lasting joy

By Carl E. Olson on May 20, 2020 09:29 pm
Readings: • Acts 1:1-11 • Psa 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 • Eph 1:17-23 • Matt 28:16-20 Pope Saint Leo the Great (c. 400-461), in a sermon on the Ascension, wrote: Since then Christ’s Ascension is our [...]
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Dean Koontz: A Confession

By Joseph Pearce on May 20, 2020 09:10 pm
I have a confession to make. It relates to a longstanding sin of omission. Here I am in my sixtieth year and I can claim to have the dubious distinction of never having read any [...]
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The masked but unconquered smile

By Ines Angeli Murzaku on May 20, 2020 05:00 pm
I put on a nicely hand-made face mask and my sunglasses, and before rushing into the garage I did quick check in the mirror. It had been a long time since I had been driving, [...]
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Kansas investigating sexual abuse claims in breakaway Society of St. Pius X

By Catholic News Agency on May 20, 2020 03:31 pm
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 20, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is under investigation in Kansas, amid allegations that members of the group perpetrated or covered up clerical sex [...]
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What’s wrong with an Amazonian Rite?

By Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD on May 20, 2020 03:20 am
In Querida Amazonia, Pope Frances noted that fifty years had passed since the Second Vatican Council had called for an effort to be made “to inculturate [sic] the liturgy among indigenous peoples”.1 He comments that “we [...]
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