Cabrini biography rediscovered; to be re-published by Ignatius Press
By CWR Staff on Feb 22, 2024 08:44 pmTheodore Maynard’s landmark 1945 biography Too Small a World: The Life of Mother Frances Cabrini has been buried by the sands of time. It was, and remains, the only study to draw directly from letters, [...]
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Rupnik, rigidity, and the deepening sham in Rome
By Christopher R. Altieri on Feb 22, 2024 03:48 pmSeveral years ago, when I was living in Rome, a confessor told me: “You are too rigid.” I don’t recall precisely what year it was, but it was toward the beginning of the Francis era [...]
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The power of Christ and the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter
By Fr. Charles Fox on Feb 22, 2024 02:48 pmOn April 19, 2005, I was in the fifth of my six years of seminary formation, serving as an intern at a rural parish in the northeastern part of the Archdiocese of Detroit. That morning, [...]
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Cardinal Dolan on St. Patrick’s funeral: ‘We don’t do FBI checks on people who want to be buried’
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 22, 2024 08:00 amCardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA CNA Staff, Feb 21, 2024 / 18:05 pm (CNA). Priests at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City were surprised by the “irreverence and disrespect” that occurred during a funeral for ... [...]
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Rupnik victims, advocates decry failures of Vatican justice
By Christopher R. Altieri on Feb 21, 2024 06:44 pmEditor’s note: This story has been updated.* In some of the strongest remarks to date, a senior figure at a leading watchdog and advocacy group has cast strong doubt on Pope Francis’s commitment to reform [...]
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Lourdes, healing, and the witness of Cardinal George
By MIchael R. Heinlein on Feb 21, 2024 05:23 pmIn January, I was privileged to make my first pilgrimage to Lourdes. My time there was filled with many spiritual gifts, great and small graces for which I continue to offer thanks to God and [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, February 21, 2024
By CWR Staff on Feb 21, 2024 03:00 amThe German Pope – “Pope Benedict XVI understood that Christ’s message is scandalous to the world.” “I do not recall ever having seen a pope so insulted by the media”: An Interview with José de Carvalho [...]
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Saint Peter Damian and the wounds of the Church
By Dawn Beutner on Feb 20, 2024 09:00 pmIn 1298, Pope Boniface VIII decided to name four saints as Doctors of the Church to recognize their excellence as teachers of the Catholic faith and to honor the enduring impact of their thought on [...]
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“The child is not the mere creature of the state” redux
By Charles J. Russo on Feb 20, 2024 03:49 pmAlmost a century ago, in 1925’s Pierce v. Society of Sisters, a dispute from Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the rights of non-public schools to operate and of parents to have them educated where they [...]
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Francisco and Jacinta: brother and sister saints who were seers at Fatima
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 20, 2024 03:00 amOfficial portrait of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, designed by Silvia Patricio. Courtesy of the Fatima Shrine. / null ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 20, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Every Feb. 20, the Catholic Church celebrates Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto... [...]
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Embracing Creation with Incarnational Nerve
By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. on Feb 19, 2024 08:06 pmDealing with pests in our homes is an inevitable task that we all must face at some point. Back when I lived in Florida, snakes and mosquitos were the usual culprits. Fire ants were a [...]
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Book clarifies the nature and purpose of Church councils
By Casey Chalk on Feb 19, 2024 07:36 pmSome Protestants know they have an authority problem. They know that exclusive reliance on a book (the Bible) as the sole manifestation of infallible teaching fosters a scenario in which there is no authoritative means [...]
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The Missionary’s Alphabet
By Dawn Beutner on Feb 19, 2024 04:00 am“But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?” Saint Paul was speaking of the salvation [...]
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The NAACP couldn’t care less about you and your children
By Susan Ciancio on Feb 18, 2024 08:42 pmDear Women of the African American Community, I write this open letter in response to a recent resolution promulgated by the National Association of Colored People to show the harm in its words and in [...]
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An avoidable debacle: On the scandalous funeral service at St. Patrick’s
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 18, 2024 07:30 pmBy now, unless you live under a rock or gave up all media for Lent, you have heard of the debacle that played out at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York (“America’s parish church”) on [...]
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Seven lessons from the Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Feb 17, 2024 06:26 pmToday (February 17) the Church celebrates an unusual feast on her calendar. Usually when several people are celebrated on the same day on the calendar, they are a group of martyrs, like St Paul Miki [...]
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Two pilgrimages, one Way: On Assisi and Santiago de Compostela
By James Jeffrey on Feb 17, 2024 02:34 pmCan one commit pilgrimage “adultery”? In the months of planning leading up to my taking a group of pilgrims along a portion of La Via di Francesco—the Way of Saint Francis—to Assisi in Italy, I [...]
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The First Sunday of Lent: Deluges and Deserts, Sin and Salvation
By Carl E. Olson on Feb 17, 2024 03:00 am
On the Readings for Sunday, February 18, 2018, the First Sunday of Lent [...]
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