The Touch: On Saint Damien of Molokai and the love of Christ
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on May 10, 2024 04:00 amA while ago, my wife and I were trying to find a movie that we hadn’t seen before. We settled on the film Molokai (1999). Though I had heard of Fr. Damien before and had [...]
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The role of the diocesan curia and the mission of the Church
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on May 10, 2024 12:57 amNote: The following essay is adapted from an Address to the Curia of the Diocese of Charleston delivered on April 25, 2024. If we take our time-machine back fifty years ago—or maybe only forty—I suspect [...]
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Biden-Harris go all in for ‘reproductive freedom’
By Catholic News Agency on May 09, 2024 10:17 amVice President Kamala Harris speaks about Florida’s new six-week abortion ban during an event at the Prime Osborn Convention Center on May 1, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida. / Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 9, 20... [...]
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The Ascension: A source of lasting joy
By Carl E. Olson on May 09, 2024 03:00 amOn the Readings for the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, May 10, 2018 [...]
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Finding Flannery: An evening with Wildcat, Ethan Hawke, and questions
By Amy Welborn on May 08, 2024 10:44 pmThe young man in the seat next to me at the Angelika Film Center in New York City turned to his friend a few minutes before Wildcat began. “So, what’s this movie about?” he asked. [...]
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Catholic radio stations push back on new race and gender reporting rules
By Catholic News Agency on May 08, 2024 04:23 pmnull / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 8, 2024 / 17:23 pm (CNA). A trio of Catholic radio networks has filed a petition against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over new requirements that will soon mandate that all U.S. radi... [...]
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Playing the venereal game
By George Weigel on May 08, 2024 04:00 amA book subtitled The Venereal Game is not normally one to be recommended in a family newspaper. Bear with me, however. The book’s title, An Exaltation of Larks, should tell you that I’m not citing an X-rated volume [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 8, 2024
By CWR Staff on May 08, 2024 02:00 amPoliticizing Theology – “It is important to diagnose the current cultural malaise not through the prism of categories such as capitalism and communism, right and left, but the underpinning metaphysical ideologies of materialism and relativism.” [...]
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Transparently bad faith: Answering “LGBTQ” critics of Dignitas Infinita
By Monica Migliorino Miller on May 07, 2024 10:18 pmI have been very sad since April 8, 2024, when the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith promulgated Dignitas Infinita, the Declaration on Human Dignity. I have felt the immense grief among LGBTQ people [...]
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A turn to sanity? SCOTUS upholds Idaho law limiting “transitioning”
By Charles J. Russo on May 07, 2024 07:00 pmAmid ongoing controversy over “gender affirming” care for minors experiencing gender dysphoria wishing to transition, a divided Supreme Court recently largely upheld Idaho’s Vulnerable Child Protection Act (VCPA). The VCPA, applicable to children and vulnerable adults, bans [...]
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U.S. abortion law is ‘far more permissive than the vast majority of the world’
By Catholic News Agency on May 07, 2024 04:00 pmDemonstrators hold pro-life placards during an anti-abortion protest in Paris on Jan. 16, 2022. Abortion in France is legal until 14 weeks after conception. / Credit: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 7, 20... [...]
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Backwards and forwards
By James Kalb on May 07, 2024 12:32 amSome things change, some don’t, and it can be hard to know what to do about it. Wise sayings point in different directions: “[I] beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to [...]
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Pondering the restoration of a papal title
By Ines Angeli Murzaku on May 06, 2024 06:16 pmA notable change was made recently in the 2024 Pontifical Yearbook: the restoration of the papal title “Patriarch of the West”. Titles serve as significant markers of the roles individuals perform or the offices they [...]
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Could Edith Stein be declared the next doctor of the Church?
By Catholic News Agency on May 06, 2024 10:12 amTeresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), pictured in 1938-1939. / Credit: Public Domain Rome Newsroom, May 6, 2024 / 11:12 am (CNA). Edith Stein could be declared a doctor of the Church with the title “doctor veritatis,” or “doctor of truth... [...]
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Venerable Mindszenty and the battle for the Church under Communism
By Dawn Beutner on May 06, 2024 04:00 amFor as long as there has been a Church, Church leaders have often found themselves at odds with government leaders. The argument may be over domestic goals, foreign wars, influence peddling, heresies, or inconvenient moral [...]
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Why science is as science does—and why it matters
By Thomas M. Doran on May 05, 2024 08:02 pmScience is a subject many people keep at arm’s length. Perhaps they have little interest in science. Or are uncomfortable with a perceived conflict between science and faith. Or maybe they have other priorities. Yet, [...]
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Distorting Mirrors
By Sandra Miesel on May 05, 2024 12:02 pmAs headlines daily remind us, antagonism towards Jews is the most enduring hatred in our world. The Lost Mirror: Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain examines one segment of this phenomenon at the time that [...]
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Columbia’s Catholic chaplain: Campus protests were pushed by ‘explicitly communist’ outsiders
By Catholic News Agency on May 04, 2024 04:05 pmFather Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News The World Over / Screenshot Washing... [...]
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On that Associated Press piece and the future of the Church in America
By Matthew Becklo on May 04, 2024 03:09 pmTim Sullivan’s recent piece for the Associated Press on the state of the Church in America has made the rounds in Catholic circles, and it feels like a generally accurate snapshot of where things are and [...]
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Six qualities of authentic love
By Carl E. Olson on May 04, 2024 01:00 pmLove is a free gift; it cannot be coerced, manipulated, or commodified. The greatest example of this is found in the Incarnation. [...]
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The Miracles of Our Lady of Champion
By Susan Ciancio on May 03, 2024 08:00 pmJust northeast of the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, lies the site of a magnificent miracle. And today that site—the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion—is the only approved Marian apparition site in the [...]
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We need some real perspective on AI and evangelization
By Joe Grabowski on May 03, 2024 06:26 pmA few years ago on YouTube, there was a brief and fascinating fad for “tensegrity tables.” Tensegrity is a portmanteau combining “tensional” and “integrity,” and refers to structures whose parts are held together by a [...]
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Extreme divisiveness now the norm in our national life
By Russell Shaw on May 03, 2024 11:49 amEvidently timed to coincide with the heating up of the presidential race, a movie called Civil War made its debut in theaters across the country in March. It is premised on the fantastic notion of [...]
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