Throwing people away has become commonplace
By Susan Ciancio on Jan 09, 2024 05:12 pmIn our increasingly disposable society, we have now made it acceptable—and even laudable—to throw away people. We see an example of this with a Connecticut woman named Lynda Bluestein, who was the first non-resident of [...]
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Cardinal Fernández responds to uproar over sexually explicit book: ‘I certainly would not write [that] now’
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 08, 2024 06:10 pmArgentinian prelate Víctor Manuel Fernández. / Credit: Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 8, 2024 / 19:10 pm (CNA). Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, one of the most powerful men in the Vatican, responded to critic... [...]
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Rediscovered book by Cardinal Fernández features graphic erotic passages on ‘spirituality and sensuality’
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 08, 2024 02:30 pmnull / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Jan 8, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA). A 1998 book by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández featuring provocative, sexually-charged themes has resurfaced, likely adding further scrutiny to the already embattled... [...]
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The Baptism of Jesus Christ: Cosmic blessing and invitation to divine life
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 08, 2024 12:00 pmReadings: • Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 55:1-11 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-28, 29-30 • Acts 10:34-38 or 1 Jn 5:1-9 • Mk 1:7-11 Why be a Catholic? [...]
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Pope Francis calls surrogacy ‘deplorable,’ calls for global ban in speech to ambassadors
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 08, 2024 11:00 amPope Francis delivers a speech to all of the world’s ambassadors to the Vatican on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 8, 2024 / 08:55 am (CNA). Pope Francis called surrogacy “deplorable” and called for a global ban... [...]
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Avoid moral theologies “from below” and puncture the immanent frame
By Larry Chapp on Jan 07, 2024 07:20 pmLast week, I went to confession at a shrine near me, which I will not name. It was one of those infuriating confessions in which you try to convince the priest that what you are [...]
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A year with “A Catechism in a Year Podcast”
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Jan 07, 2024 06:20 pm“You’re reading the Catechism?” That was my incredulous reaction, over twenty years ago, to a college friend who was in the midst of a cover-to-cover reading of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Catechism, [...]
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The Paschal Mystery proclaimed in creation
By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. on Jan 06, 2024 09:51 pmMy last column delved into the Church’s belief that each creature—even those we find irritating or inconsequential—mirrors the beauty of the divine Logos in our world. Yet, even as every feature of the cosmos reflects [...]
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American dioceses will hold local synod ‘listening sessions’ through Lent 2024
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 06, 2024 02:00 pmPope Francis leads the Synod on Synodality delegates in prayer on Oct. 25, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 6, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). The synodal process promoted by Pope Francis is coming to dioceses across the Unit... [...]
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True worship and the Epiphany of the Lord
By Carl E. Olson on Jan 06, 2024 03:00 amReadings: • Is 60:1-6 • Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13 • Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6 • Mt 2:1-12 “Worship”, observed Fr. Gerald Vann, O.P., “is not a part of the Christian life: it is the Christian [...]
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Controversial “orgasm” book contains roots of Amoris Laetitia, Fiducia Supplicans
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman on Jan 11, 2024 06:21 pmEditor’s note: The following essay contains graphic language about sexuality that not suitable for all readers. It recently came to light that Pope Francis’ doctrinal chief, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernanadez, is the author of a [...]
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African bishops: ‘No blessing for homosexual couples in the African Churches’
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 11, 2024 01:25 pmCardinal Fridolin Ambongo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). / Credit: François-Régis Salefran, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 11, 2024 / 14:25 pm (CNA). In... [...]
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Reflecting on another move and the search for reality
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jan 11, 2024 04:00 amI began the New Year with another move. My wife, Anne, and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary this past year. During this time, we have now moved 13 times for studies, work, and health [...]
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A crisis of the human person: St John Paul II’s remedy
By Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. on Jan 11, 2024 12:29 amYesterday, in the name of equality, many progressive voices demanded that women be permitted to act as men, regardless of how corruptly men might act. Today, in the name of equality, these voices say men [...]
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Report: Over 130 Catholic priests and religious arrested, kidnapped, or murdered in 2023
By Catholic News Agency on Jan 10, 2024 02:00 pmNicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez. / Credit: Facebook Diocese Media - TV Merced Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 10, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). Throughout 2023, more than 130 Catholic priests and religious were either arrested, kidnapped, or murdered... [...]
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“Contextual” theology and Fiducia Supplicans
By George Weigel on Jan 10, 2024 04:00 amIn the apostolic letter Ad Theologiam Promovendam (To Promote Theology), issued by Pope Francis on Nov. 1, 2023, the Church was urged to do theology contextually: as the motu proprio put it, theology must be [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 10, 2024
By CWR Staff on Jan 10, 2024 03:00 amHeroic Charity Required – “This is not an easy time to be a bishop, especially as the DDF fosters confusion, but every bishop is called to lead the faithful into a deeper relationship with Christ [...]
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Walk for Life West Coast, OneLife LA both walk for life on January 20th
By Jim Graves on Jan 09, 2024 08:42 pmThe 20th annual Walk for Life West Coast will be held Saturday, January 20, 2024, beginning with a 12:30 p.m. rally at Civic Center Plaza. After the rally, walkers proceed on an 1.8-mile walk down Market [...]
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