Ten Catholic scientists and inventors everyone should know
By Filip Mazurczak on Jul 21, 2022 02:20 pmJuly 22nd marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian Augustinian friar known as the father of genetics. While the dominant narrative in the West since the Enlightenment has been that [...]
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Vatican warning: Germany’s ‘Synodal Way’ poses ‘threat to the unity of the Church’
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 21, 2022 09:25 amnull / Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk. Vatican City, Jul 21, 2022 / 07:25 am (CNA). The Vatican has issued another warning of a new schism from Germany coming out of the “Synodal Way."“The ‘Synodal Way’ in Germany does not have the power to compel b... [...]
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Heaven on Earth: Liturgical Wisdom from Eastern Christianity
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jul 21, 2022 03:37 amIt is easy to forget that the Catholic Church is composed of 24 self-governing Churches with distinct liturgical rites. We lose sight of this because the Latin Church, which worships according to the Roman Rite, [...]
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Blessed Luigi Lenzini, priest and martyr
By Dawn Beutner on Jul 21, 2022 03:20 amThe diocesan priest Luigi Lenzini was killed for his Catholic faith in 1945, a few months after World War II was over. If he died as a martyr more than seven decades ago, why wasn’t [...]
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Cardinal George Pell reflects on celebrating (and not celebrating) the Mass
By Paul Senz on Jul 20, 2022 07:29 pmGeorge Cardinal Pell has been a priest for nearly 60 years, and served as Archbishop of Melbourne and Archbishop of Sydney, as well as Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, and a member of [...]
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Southwest Coalition for Life announces plans for new pro-life pregnancy center
By Susan Ciancio on Jul 20, 2022 07:08 pmRoe may have been overturned, but the fight to protect moms and babies at the state level has just begun. The people of Las Cruces, New Mexico, are gearing up for that fight. At an [...]
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Don’t Be Cruel: A review of Elvis
By Nick Olszyk on Jul 20, 2022 06:46 pmMPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars When examining the life of a very popular or legendary figure, it is often best to look at him through the lens of [...]
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The Pope Emeritus Puzzle: Will Pope Francis rewrite the Rules of Resignation?
By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency on Jul 20, 2022 05:55 amPope Francis with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Monastery of Mater Ecclesiae in Vatican City on June 30, 2015. / null Rome Newsroom, Jul 20, 2022 / 03:55 am (CNA). With speculation running rife whether Pope Francis could resign, and whether... [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for July 20, 2022
By CWR Staff on Jul 20, 2022 05:00 amNetflix’s Persuasion – There are ways to adapt Austen for a contemporary audience, but those ways are not this way, and I say this not as a purist. Everyone involved should be in prison: Netflix’s [...]
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The irrepressible, irreplaceable Midge Decter
By George Weigel on Jul 20, 2022 03:10 amAbout two-thirds of the way through that fine 1992 film, A League of Their Own, star catcher Dottie Hinson has had enough of the grind and is ready to quit. “It just got too hard,” [...]
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The story of the first social encyclical
By Michael D. Greaney on Jul 19, 2022 11:54 pmIn 1832, responding to drastic social, political, and economic changes spreading chaos throughout society, Pope Gregory XVI issued Mirari Vos, “On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism” — the first social encyclical. Previous encyclicals (letters by popes [...]
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The 100th anniversary of Chesterton’s conversion—and its ripple effect
By Dale Ahlquist on Jul 19, 2022 08:21 pmWhen G.K. Chesterton was received into the Catholic Church one hundred years ago, on Sunday, July 30, 1922, it was big news. Except it wasn’t. It didn’t quite qualify as “news” because nobody knew about [...]
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German “Synodal Way” a “conscious statement against Catechism”, says official
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 19, 2022 05:21 amMarc Frings speaking at a press conference of the German "Synodal Way" on February 4, 2022 / Synodaler Weg/Max von Lachner CNA Newsroom, Jul 19, 2022 / 03:21 am (CNA). The German “Synodal Way” is aiming to change the Church’s teaching... [...]
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Yes, Vice President Harris, let’s compare slavery and abortion
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 19, 2022 02:02 amVice President Kamala Harris, who “takes stuff seriously”, has offered a supposedly serious argument against Dobbs. Harris on Monday compared the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning a constitutional right to abortion to America’s history of slavery, saying [...]
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Media frenzy over Biden’s Saudi Arabia trip ignores the real scandal
By Casey Chalk on Jul 18, 2022 09:02 pmPresident Biden’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia was so fraught with controversy, his administration decided it was necessary to defend himself with an op-ed in the Washington Post. That didn’t stop liberal corporate media — [...]
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Abortion a ‘human rights issue’ more than a religious issue, Archbishop Naumann says
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 18, 2022 04:25 pmArchbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., and the outgoing chair of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, presents pro-life initiative Walking with Moms in Need to the U.S. bishops on Nov. 17, 2021 in Baltimore. / Screenshot fro... [...]
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The issue ignored in Dobbs and the overturning of Roe
By Raymond B. Marcin on Jul 17, 2022 11:26 pmA vital issue was conspicuously ignored when, on June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court, by its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturned its half-century-old decision in Roe v. Wade. What [...]
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Pope Francis: Canada visit will be a ‘penitential pilgrimage’
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 17, 2022 08:00 amPope Francis meets members of the First Nations at the Vatican on March 31, 2022. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Jul 17, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA). The papal trip to Canada next week will be a “penitential pilgrimage” to bring healing and reconcilia... [...]
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Love and thunder, signifying nothing? Religion and nihilism in recent Marvel movies
By Steven D. Greydanus on Jul 16, 2022 02:56 pmNote: This essay contains spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Eternals. “I shouldn’t be alive…unless it was for a reason.” “You’re not getting what the universe is [...]
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Faith of Our Fathers sheds needed light on England’s Catholic history
By Piers Shepherd on Jul 16, 2022 02:34 pmOne of the most depressing things about modern Britain is the lack of awareness of the country’s Christian past. Christian faith has been effectively exiled from public life. Yet the Christian, and specifically Catholic, heritage [...]
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Bishop Pfeifer: Catholic bishops must hold Biden accountable post-Roe
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 16, 2022 05:00 amBishop Michael Pfeifer, bishop emeritus of San Angelo, Texas. / Courtesy photo. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 16, 2022 / 03:00 am (CNA). A Texas bishop emeritus is calling on his fellow Catholic bishops — and all pro-life Americans — to take a... [...]
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Mary, Martha, and “the better part”
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 16, 2022 03:20 amReadings: • Gen 18:1-10a • Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 • Col 1:24-28 • Lk 10:38-42 Americans are, generally speaking, a pragmatic and practical people. We know how to get things done, how to organize, how [...]
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Pro-life leaders react: House passes first abortion bills after Roe
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 15, 2022 07:50 pmU.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. / Shutterstock Washington D.C., Jul 15, 2022 / 17:50 pm (CNA). The House of Representatives on Friday passed a sweeping abortion bill that would undo state restrictions on the procedure nationwide.The Dem... [...]
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The Culture of Death is alive as Hell
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 15, 2022 06:56 pmKate Brown, governor of Oregon, where I’ve lived since 1991, was upset when news leaked in early May about the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs. How upset? Let me be very, very clear: You cannot [...]
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