Fr. Theodore Hesburgh: American priest and enigmatic figure
By Conor Dugan on Jul 06, 2023 08:00 pmIn the fall of 2000, during my first semester at Notre Dame Law School, I had the privilege of joining approximately 25 other Notre Dame students for an evening with Father Theodore Hesburgh in his [...]
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The refined, problematic casuistry of Abp. Fernández’s defense of chapter 8 of “Amoris Laetitia”
By Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD on Jul 06, 2023 05:00 pmArchbishop Fernández's essay on the controversial eighth chapter of Amoris Laetitia attempted to dispel doubts about that papal document's orthodoxy but has only raised more [...]
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Archbishop Fernández on new role as Vatican’s doctrinal chief: ‘I will do it my way’
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 06, 2023 10:30 amArchbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, pictured here in 2014, is the archbishop of La Plata, Argentina. He will take up his new post as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in September 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Ju... [...]
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“At Planned Parenthood, the rich get richer while the poor get abortions”
By Susan Ciancio on Jul 06, 2023 10:00 amFor years, we have lived with staggering grocery prices, crippling gas prices, and inflation that has handicapped families throughout our country. Times are difficult, and the financial burden has countless people worrying where the money [...]
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“In nomine adulterii”: Observations on the moral nominalism of Abp Fernández
By Don Alfredo Maria Morselli on Jul 05, 2023 10:28 pmThe occasion for this writing is given to me by the recent appointment of His Excellency Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández as Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. It is well known [...]
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Another victory for religious freedom
By Charles J. Russo on Jul 05, 2023 05:39 pmThe Supreme Court’s recent judgment in Groff v. DeJoy was another victory for religious freedom, reflective of a change in direction in a variety of its recent cases. In Groff, a postal worker who is [...]
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Pope Francis hosts Bill Clinton, foundation head Alex Soros
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 05, 2023 04:10 pmFormer President Bill Clinton was received by Pope Francis at Casa Santa Marta July 5. / Vatican Dicastery for Communication CNA Staff, Jul 5, 2023 / 15:10 pm (CNA). Pope Francis met with former U.S. President Bill Clinton in a private audience... [...]
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Synod-2023: Reversing Vatican II?
By George Weigel on Jul 05, 2023 04:00 amThe first words of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church — one of the council’s two most important texts — signaled a decisive development in Catholic self-understanding. Rather than begin its reflection [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, July 5, 2023
By CWR Staff on Jul 05, 2023 02:20 amFlow of Information – “The Age of Information has come to a brutal end—here’s how it happened” 30 Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-pocalypse (Ted Gioia: The Honest Broker) A Prefect Storm — “The [...]
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303 Creative, Catholicism, and religious freedom
By Thomas A. Suarez on Jul 04, 2023 05:42 pmThe U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30 decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis protected the rights of a website designer against being forced by Colorado to design websites for “same-sex marriages.” The most vocal media reaction [...]
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Sound of Freedom succeeds as both thriller and messenger
By Nick Olszyk on Jul 04, 2023 03:00 amMPAA Rating: PG-13 Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels (Spoiler alert!) The sex trafficking of children is not a subject any sane person wants to contemplate, but it is a growing calamity that deserves—even [...]
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An Englishman in post-revolutionary America: A Fourth of July reflection
By Joseph Pearce on Jul 03, 2023 08:00 pmAs Americans celebrate their independence from England, it is worth remembering an Englishman, later to be lionized by G. K. Chesterton, who moved to the United States in 1792, when the American nation was in [...]
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Moms at (Culture) War
By Jesse Russell on Jul 03, 2023 07:40 pm“Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.” — Aristotle While commenting on the long 1960s, the redoubtable Roger Kimball once observed: “The long march of the cultural revolution [...]
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Catholicism and the American Founding
By Bradley J. Birzer on Jul 03, 2023 07:00 pmNatural Law, common law, Natural Rights, and localism—all so dear to the Founding—existed in 1776, simply put, because of the Catholic Church. [...]
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Independence Day and the principles of Catholic social teaching
By Dr. Christopher Shannon on Jul 03, 2023 10:00 amJuly is the first full month of summer, a time for lazy hazy days of going on vacation, cooling off, doing nothing. For historians, it is the month when things really start to heat up, [...]
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Not a tame Byrd: Remembering a great recusant composer
By Julian Kwasniewski on Jul 02, 2023 05:00 pmThis July 4th marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the great recusant composer William Byrd. Byrd’s legacy includes more than over 400 pieces of music, and his life reminds us that even in [...]
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New report analyzes origins and phenomena behind abuse in France’s St. John community
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 02, 2023 09:00 amFather Marie-Dominique Philippe. / Credit: Herwig Reidlinger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Paris, France, Jul 2, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Brothers of St. John Community in France published on June 26 the findings of its internal invest... [...]
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Dying with Christ so that we shall also live with him
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 01, 2023 10:17 pmReadings: • 2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a • Psa 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19 • Rom 6:3-4, 8-11 • Mt 10:37-42 A great paradox—perhaps the paradox—of Christian belief and spirituality is that true and everlasting life comes through [...]
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The witness of Red Rose Rescuers Fr. Fidelis Moscinski and Laura Gies
By Bernadette Patel on Jul 01, 2023 04:26 pm“If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you.” John 15:18 A report from the June 30th sentencing of Red Rose Rescuers in Long Island, NY. Today started out [...]
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The German synodal Sonderweg on its way to a never-ending story
By Birgit Kelle on Jul 01, 2023 01:00 pmWhen the Plenary Assembly of the Synodal Path began its work for the first time in the Advent of 2021, there was never any talk of a “first phase”, i.e. the option of an extension, [...]
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Pope Francis appoints Argentine Archbishop Fernández as head of doctrine dicastery
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 01, 2023 09:20 amArchbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Jul 1, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA). Pope Francis has named Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, his longtime personal theologian and ghostwriter, to lead the Dicastery for the Doct... [...]
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Indiana Jones movies and Raiders of the Lost Ark: Why the original still stands alone
By Steven D. Greydanus on Jun 30, 2023 05:10 pmI was 12 when Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in 1981, and it changed my relationship with movies. I was already an avid moviegoer; what’s more, between the first two films in the Star [...]
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