Rediscovering the reality of the Eucharist

A Response to Archbishop Viganò’s Letter about Vatican II

By Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM., Cap. on Aug 13, 2020 06:46 pm
I very much appreciate Archbishop Viganò taking the time to respond to my article that appeared in Inside the Vatican on July 27, 2020. However, I found his response, posted on August 10th at Inside [...]
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Biden says nuns inspire him to run, plans to sue Little Sisters of the Poor

By Catholic News Agency on Aug 13, 2020 12:58 pm
CNA Staff, Aug 13, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has released a campaign video in which he credits his Catholic faith, Pope Francis, and the example of nuns for his [...]
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Revisiting Brideshead Revisited

By Russell Shaw on Aug 13, 2020 12:49 pm
In the late spring of 1945, as World War II was drawing toward a close, a novel called Brideshead Revisited made its appearance in Britain; its first U.S. edition came out the following January. Whatever [...]
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Reading St. Thomas: A beginner’s guide to the articulus

By Joseph G. Trabbic on Aug 13, 2020 02:13 am
Reading St. Thomas for the first time can be a challenge. Besides his scholastic vocabulary, another stumbling block for you might be the literary form of his writing. Many of his texts are divided into [...]
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The fallow fields of academe and the lost art of disputatio

By Jack Gist on Aug 12, 2020 10:21 pm
Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award in 2017 at the age of 41. She served as architect of the Pulitzer-Prize winning 1619 Project in 2019. Leading historians from the left and the right [...]
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Analysis: Was a stack of Bibles burned in Portland, or was it fake news?

By Catholic News Agency on Aug 12, 2020 06:09 pm
Denver Newsroom, Aug 12, 2020 / 03:35 pm (CNA).- If you perused the news online on Saturday, Aug. 1, you could be forgiven for believing that large-scale Bible burnings— the kind perpetrated by the Nazis [...]
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Rediscovering the reality of the Eucharist

By George Weigel on Aug 12, 2020 03:01 am
Thinking out loud about a return to “Sunday normal,” a veteran pastor recently told me that he thought it would take one year for each month of lockdown/quarantine/ shelter-at-home for Mass attendance to return to [...]
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Bishops of Wichita, Denver call Catholics to turn to Mary in ‘time of crisis’

By Catholic News Agency on Aug 11, 2020 11:57 pm
CNA Staff, Aug 11, 2020 / 05:29 pm (CNA).- Two bishops have called for rosary crusades in their respective dioceses in the month of August, asking Catholics to pray daily rosaries for the end of [...]
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Kanye West, abortion, and Christian penitence

By Dr. Richard H. Bulzacchelli on Aug 11, 2020 09:12 pm
Recently, musician Kanye West received attention from concerned friends and colleagues after displaying erratic and emotionally charged behavior in the days following an announcement that he’d chosen to mount a presidential campaign. I have no [...]
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Good Cop, Bad Cop

By Dr. Paul Kengor on Aug 11, 2020 05:25 pm
The aftermath of the wrongful death of George Floyd has unfortunately seen another wrong: the perception of too many police officers as villains. Police are feeling it, painfully. Many of them are blaming not just [...]
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