Mid-City Christian: “The Truth of the Resurrection” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Civil Suits by Catholic Priests: A Status Report

By Michael J. Mazza on Apr 04, 2024 10:25 pm
Recent press coverage of a civil suit alleging defamation and fraud brought by a diocesan priest in Indiana against his own diocese and vicar general has triggered a great deal of discussion about the prudential [...]
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Priest says ‘trans’ people he has ministered to have deep wounds

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 04, 2024 05:05 pm
null / Andrii Zastrozhnov/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 4, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Father Francisco “Patxi” Bronchalo of the Diocese of Getafe in Spain shared on X about the emotional wounds he has encountered throughout his pastoral experi... [...]
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Do ordinary Catholics have much interest in synods and synodality?

By Russell Shaw on Apr 04, 2024 03:05 pm
A surprisingly large number of priests are said to have lately been replying “no thanks” when invited to become bishops. If that’s so, it may help explain why Pope Francis, responding to discussions that took [...]
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Saint Gaetano and devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus

By Dawn Beutner on Apr 03, 2024 09:00 pm
Two men were born in the late nineteenth century in Italy, were ordained as priests, became widely known during their own lifetimes, and are now canonized saints. While Saint Gaetano Catanoso had much in common [...]
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French government cracks down on priest who said homosexual relations are sinful

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 03, 2024 07:00 am
Father Matthieu Raffray. / Credit: @AbbeRaffray on X ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). The French government has initiated a series of legal measures against Father Matthieu Raffray for calling homosexual relations sinful and for ... [...]
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Baseball and rumors of angels

By George Weigel on Apr 03, 2024 04:00 am
One of my life’s great blessings has been to have known and worked with men and women whose books I first studied in college and graduate school. High on that roster of intellectual-mentors-become-friends-and-colleagues stands the [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, April 3, 2024

By CWR Staff on Apr 03, 2024 02:00 am
Women of the Church – “Some of the lesser known, less venerated Catholic women of the past who contributed in important ways to the history of the Church and of their times more broadly include [...]
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A broader, better, and authentically Catholic vision of politics

By Larry Chapp on Apr 02, 2024 10:23 pm
During the time of the early Church, it was commonplace for Caesar to be addressed as “Lord.” And this was more than a simple honorific title acknowledging that Caesar was the supreme political authority in [...]
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Catholic education and reform in the spirit of Blessed Alcuin of York

By Jesse Russell on Apr 02, 2024 06:54 pm
Dr. Richard Meloche serves as the president of the Alcuin Institute for Catholic Culture, which is based in the Diocese of Tulsa & Eastern Oklahoma. He earned his initial degrees in philosophy and theology from [...]
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Vatican to publish document on ‘moral questions’ regarding human dignity, gender, surrogacy

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 02, 2024 03:15 pm
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, pictured here in 2014, took up his new post as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in September 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Apr 2, 2024 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s to... [...]
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Sacramento Diocese files for bankruptcy in wake of more than 250 abuse allegations

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 02, 2024 01:15 pm
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, California. / Credit: Randy Miramontez/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Apr 2, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA). Following more than 250 lawsuits alleging abuse against the Diocese of Sacramento, Bishop Jaime Soto ... [...]
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Creation’s Rebellion: What changed after the Fall?

By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. on Apr 01, 2024 10:09 pm
When faced with the question of why there is so much suffering in the world, the default Christian answer is because of Adam’s sin. This belief is certainly not without warrant. Indeed, a number of [...]
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Radical ideological orthodoxy trammels parental rights, needs of children

By Charles J. Russo on Apr 01, 2024 07:16 pm
Discrimination against Christians continues unabated as for the third time in four years public officials have sought to not allow qualified Christians to serve as foster or adoptive parents because they reject the current orthodoxy [...]
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Washington archbishop: Biden ‘picks and chooses’ parts of Catholic faith

By Catholic News Agency on Apr 01, 2024 09:50 am
Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, leads the recession of the Mass on Ash Wednesday at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on Feb. 22, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images CNA Staff, Apr 1, 2024... [...]
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Saint Francis and the post-Kantian critique of knowledge

By Fr. Dan Pattee on Apr 01, 2024 04:00 am
There is a philosophical problem we’ve faced in the West for some time that can be summarized as follows: “In the movement of post-Kantian thought, conceptual knowledge was indeed called into question. For Schleiermacher, the [...]
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Keeping the Faith with Fr. Aidan Nichols

By Edward Short on Mar 31, 2024 07:46 pm
In several ways, Fr. Aidan’s Nichols’ Apologia is a keeping faith with positions he has held for many years. He remains full of hope about the conversion of Anglo-Catholics, even though he laments the unreadiness of the [...]
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Full text of Pope Francis’ urbi et orbi blessing for Easter 2024

By Catholic News Agency on Mar 31, 2024 12:15 pm
Pope Francis gives his urbi et orbi Easter blessing from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on March 31, 2024. / Credit: Pablo Esparza/CNA Vatican City, Mar 31, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA). On the morning of Easter Sunday 2024, Pope Francis p... [...]
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The Resurrection and the Meaning of Life

By Fr. Charles Fox on Mar 31, 2024 04:00 am
If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have [...]
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“The Truth of the Resurrection” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

By CWR Staff on Mar 31, 2024 03:30 am
Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from Introduction to Christianity (2nd edition) by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Ignatius Press, 1990, 2004; pp. 301-10). ——— To the Christian, faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is an expression [...]
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See and Believe: The Shroud bears witness to the lifting up of Jesus

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Mar 31, 2024 03:00 am
Jesus has been raised up, lifted up for all to see, so that in seeing, we may believe. John puts these images at the center of his Gospel, as we see in chapter eight, when [...]
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