Pro-dignity, life-affirming palliative care: An interview with Dr. Natalie King
By CWR Staff on Nov 21, 2024 05:28 pmDr. Natalie King, with a medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine, is a Catholic palliative care physician who lives in Utah. Concerned about proper and ethical care for patients at all stages of [...]
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The power of persuasion in an age of fragile authority
By Kevin Tierney on Nov 21, 2024 03:38 pmIn the world of discourse and debate, a lot of attention is rightly paid to the truth. What is often overlooked is how persuasion interacts with the truth. What is the truth, if nobody is [...]
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Meet the pro-life prisoners whom Trump is expected to pardon
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 21, 2024 01:05 pmFrom left: John Hinshaw, Jonathan Darnel, Lauren Handy, Joan Bell, and Jean Marshall are among the pro-life activists who are still in prison or awaiting prison sentences on federal charges brought by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice ... [...]
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St. Perpetua’s Purgatory
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Nov 21, 2024 07:00 amAwaiting her execution in jail, Vibia Perpetua, a young mother and spiritual leader of a group of Christians in Carthage, had a vision while in prayer. She saw her brother Dinocrates, who died of cancer [...]
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Nearly half of 2,500 anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe were in France, report says
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 20, 2024 02:00 pmThe historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, was ravaged by arson on the night of Sept. 2, 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of Father Sébastien Roussel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, No... [...]
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A great Christian witness, too little known in the West
By George Weigel on Nov 20, 2024 04:00 amThe Venerable Andrei Sheptytsky, who died eighty years ago on November 1, 1944, was one of 20th-century Catholicism’s outstanding figures, whose remarkable life and heroic ministry as leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church spanned 43 [...]
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Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 20, 2024 03:00 amThe 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, November 20, 2024
By CWR Staff on Nov 20, 2024 03:00 amIndifference and the Eucharist Do Not Mix – “As any decently catechized Catholic knows, reception of Holy Communion indicates full and public communion with the Church, which is the household of God (1 Tim 3:15), [...]
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On our need for sanctity, weirdness, and wild gratuity
By Larry Chapp on Nov 19, 2024 04:39 pmDeep nihilism and deceptive scientism Our culture is nihilistic. This is a fundamental premise that guides almost everything I write about. The deep nihilism of modernity is the air that we breathe—our deep worldview of [...]
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Socialism is ‘an enemy of the cross,’ Spanish bishop says
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 19, 2024 01:00 pmBishop José Ignacio Munilla was among the speakers featured at the 2024 Conference on Catholics and Public Life Nov. 15–17, 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of the Catholic Association of Propagandists (Advocates) Madrid, Spain, Nov 19, 2024 / 08:00 am... [...]
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Big business against the natural family
By Nathanael Blake on Nov 19, 2024 05:00 amChristian social thinkers have urged the development of a humane economy that provides justice for workers and support for families. Unfortunately, big businesses today appear to have little sense of how to achieve this, even [...]
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Vatican approves liturgical adaptations for Indigenous communities in Mexico
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 18, 2024 01:00 pmCardinal Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, bishop emeritus of San Cristóbal de las Casas in the Mexican state of Chiapas, expressed his hope that the approval of a series of liturgical adaptations for Indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Chia... [...]
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Cause for conflict: The Catholic Church and property rights in American law
By Kevin Schmiesing on Nov 18, 2024 04:00 amIn what is now a decades-long trend, reports of American Catholic dioceses declaring bankruptcy continue to filter into the news. To a large extent, this financial retreat is fallout from the ongoing clergy sexual abuse [...]
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What is “the Heroic Act of Charity”? An introduction and primer
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Nov 17, 2024 08:47 pmIn a previous essay, I wrote about why prayer for the dead is a necessity—not just a “nice thing to do” during November. For all our prayers and good deeds to be spiritually efficacious we [...]
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‘With God, everything; without God, nothing’: principles of a Catholic family business
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 17, 2024 07:00 amCarnicerías Jiménez founder José Jiménez and his daughter Luz Maribel, the Chicago grocery chain’s human resources director. / Credit: Courtesy of Luz Maribel Jiménez ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 17, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). “With God, everything; witho... [...]
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Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF
By Dr. Edward Feser on Nov 17, 2024 05:00 amPro-lifers should rejoice in the defeat of Kamala Harris, and of the Democratic Party, which remains the greatest threat to the unborn in American politics. But they cannot rest, because their job is only half [...]
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Tribulation, apocalypse, distress—and hope
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 17, 2024 12:00 amReadings: • Deut 12:1-3 • Psa 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11 • Heb 10:11-14, 18 • Mk 13:24-32 Tribulation, affliction, and distress. These aren’t attractive topics, but they are quite real; they are part of our [...]
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11 things to know about Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Saints’
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 16, 2024 04:00 pmMartin Scorsese on the set of his new series on the life of the saints. The show premieres Sunday, Nov, 17, 2024, on Fox Nation. / Credit: Slobodan Pikula/Fox Nation National Catholic Register, Nov 16, 2024 / 10:00 am (CNA). On the heels of his... [...]
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On the history and feast of the “Protection of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn”
By Father Seán Connolly on Nov 16, 2024 03:00 amAn intriguing medieval fresco can be found in the church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg, France. It depicts fifteen kings processing by horseback, each carrying a standard bearing the name of his respective nation. The image [...]
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The power of images in an iconoclast culture
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Nov 16, 2024 01:00 am“You were without hope in the world.” This is how Paul describes the Ephesian Christians before their conversion, stuck in the darkness of sin and paganism. Idols expressed their hope for material security, embodying their [...]
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Dictatorship in Nicaragua expels president of country’s bishops’ conference
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 15, 2024 02:25 pmBishop Carlos Herrera is president of the Bishops’ Conference of Nicaragua. / Credit: Bishops Conference of Nicaragua ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2024 / 15:25 pm (CNA). The dictatorship of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has expelled Bishop Ca... [...]
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