Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, December 7, 2022
By CWR Staff on Dec 07, 2022 05:00 amRussian Accusations – “Priests arrested in Ukraine are charged with trafficking weapons used to fight Russian occupiers. But Church officials says the arrests are retaliation for Ukrainian investigation of Orthodox monasteries.” Weapons charge against priests [...]
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Books for Christmas – 2022
By George Weigel on Dec 07, 2022 03:10 amLast month’s midterm elections made it painfully clear that many pro-life advocates and politicians are at sea in the post-Roe v. Wade environment. Shawn Carney and Steve Karlen’s What to Say When: The Complete New [...]
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To be deep in history is to cease to be Mormon: An interview with Jeremy Christiansen
By Paul Senz on Dec 06, 2022 09:38 pmThere is something remarkably engaging about conversion memoirs. Among Catholics, the conversion memoir has become a prominent book genre in its own right. This tradition goes back many centuries. Among them are Saint Augustine’s Confessions, [...]
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Conference to focus on controversial Pontifical Academy for Life book
By Carl E. Olson on Dec 06, 2022 06:38 pmWhat is the doctrinal status of the Church’s teaching against contraception? How is Catholic teaching on contraception supported by Scripture, Christian anthropology, and the natural law? What is meant by the “radical paradigm change” mentioned [...]
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U.S. Catholic population shows growth, trends southward
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 06, 2022 02:00 pmnull / Goran Bogicevic/Shutterstock. Denver, Colo., Dec 6, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA). The Catholic population in the United States has grown by about 2 million people in 10 years. With nearly 62 million people, it continues to constitute the large... [...]
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The new times of Nicholas Black Elk, Native American and lay catechist
By Dr. Christopher Shannon on Dec 06, 2022 04:00 amDecember 6th provides an occasion for Catholics in the universal Church to celebrate the life of a great fourth-century saint: St. Nicholas. Some American Catholics are also now associating the day with a different Nicholas. [...]
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You better watch out—St. Nicholas is coming to town
By Christopher B. Warner on Dec 06, 2022 03:30 amEveryone loves jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas. There is something romantic and cozy about telling Santa stories around the crackling fire. He is an icon of the Christmas season. But not everyone agrees about the real [...]
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The serious difference between a “human being” and a “human person”
By Shaun Kenney on Dec 05, 2022 07:25 pmWhen Samuel Johnson sought to reject George Berkeley’s argument that our worldly experience consisted of mental abstractions, Johnson walked to a rock and kicked it, proclaiming, “I refute it thus” as a means of proving [...]
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Speech of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Prefect to the German bishops
By CWR Staff on Dec 05, 2022 05:22 pmEditor’s note: The following is the full text of the speech given on Nov. 18, 2022, by His Eminence Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to [...]
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Scientist and Saint: Blessed Niels Stensen (1638-1686)
By Dawn Beutner on Dec 05, 2022 05:00 amFor many people today, the controversy over the Catholic Church’s treatment of Galileo Galilei has only one lesson: faith and science are incompatible. After all, according to this argument, consider how the Church treated a [...]
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Sin, cheap grace, and John the Baptist
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Dec 04, 2022 11:00 amEditor’s note: The following homily was preached on the Second Sunday of Advent (December 4, 2022), at Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter). We have completed one-fourth of our [...]
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The mighty Mississippi was once named ‘River of the Immaculate Conception.’ Here’s why
By Catholic News Agency on Dec 04, 2022 10:00 amA bridge over the Mississippi River near St. Louis / Checubus / Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Dec 4, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA). “Immaculate” is not a word most people would use to describe the Mississippi River’s famously muddy waters. But Father Ja... [..]
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Monastic decline and the loss that goes with it
By James Jeffrey on Dec 03, 2022 09:27 pmA strange sense of beautiful abandonment accompanied me as I passed between the soundless cloisters of the Cistercian monastery Santa María la Real de Oseira in north-western Spain. One cloister was overrun with purple lavender flowers, [...]
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John the Baptist reveals the Reason for the Season
By Dr. Leroy Huizenga on Dec 03, 2022 06:00 pmIn Advent and Christmas our thoughts turn, naturally, to the baby Jesus and his Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Most people think this time of year is about the miraculous birth of Our Lord, Jesus [...]
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