Now is the time to end organ harvesting from “dead” donors
By Joseph M. Eble, MD on Jul 24, 2025 10:28 pmA recent article in The New York Times (NYT) titled “A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk” uncovered that 55 medical workers in 19 states “had witnessed at least one disturbing case of [...]
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On the Human Need for Beauty
By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. on Jul 24, 2025 08:15 pmI’ve always had an interest in history because history is to a culture as memory is to each of us as individuals. A man with amnesia is a man without an identity. The same applies [...]
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Children’s hospitals nationally end transgender surgeries on minors amid Trump rules
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 24, 2025 05:23 pmChildren’s National Hospital in Washington “paused prescriptions of puberty blockers and hormone therapy” for transgender-identifying youth there in response to a Trump directive. / Credit: Daquella manera/Wikipedia/CC BY 2.0 Washington, D.C. N... [...]
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The Bible: The Singularly Great Book
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jul 24, 2025 04:00 amThe Great Books of Western Civilization were published in the middle of the twentieth century as a series of beautifully bound volumes that even inspired new collegiate programs of study. They were needed because Americans [..]
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Report highlights which states are the best and worst at protecting religious liberty
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 23, 2025 08:13 pmCredit: Amanda Wayne/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 23, 2025 / 17:13 pm (CNA). In the past year Florida has been the most successful state at protecting religious liberty through safeguards in the state’s statutes or constitution, ... [...]
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A Kaleidoscope of Recollections of George Cardinal Pell
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 23, 2025 01:25 pmThe late Cardinal Pell was a larger-than-life figure known for his outspoken orthodoxy and bluntness, as well as for being infamously jailed and then dramatically exonerated by the Australian courts. But what was Pell like [...]
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The perils of polarization
By George Weigel on Jul 23, 2025 04:00 amCRACOW — Adam Michnik was one of the great wordsmiths of the revolution of conscience that began to form in mid-1970s Poland, which was fully ignited by John Paul II in June 1979, and that [...]
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The feminine genius of Saint Bridget of Sweden
By Dawn Beutner on Jul 23, 2025 03:30 amThe ideal woman, as depicted by pop culture, is a selfish woman. The “girl power” stereotype so common in today’s entertainment is a woman who is so focused on her personal goals that she is [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, July 23, 2025
By CWR Staff on Jul 23, 2025 03:00 amBecoming Like God – “The revival of deification theology in the Catholic Church has big implications, from ecumenism to AI.” ‘You Are Gods’: The Ancient Theology That’s Making a Comeback — and Could Help Unite [...]
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Death of the StAR?
By Joseph Pearce on Jul 22, 2025 06:11 pmFor the past quarter of a century, I’ve been honoured to edit the St. Austin Review, popularly known as the StAR, a Catholic cultural journal, published six times a year. The StAR was launched in September 2001, [..]
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Knowing the real Saint Mary Magdalene
By Dawn Beutner on Jul 22, 2025 04:00 amMary of Magdala, Mary Magdalene, the Magdalene: whatever you call her, she has been one of the most beloved Catholic saints for almost two millennia. Artists have painted her portrait. Well, since she probably died [...]
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Pastor of Gaza church hit by Israeli fire: ‘We are in God’s grace and we persevere in faith’
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 21, 2025 03:43 pmFather Gabriel Romanelli, parish priest at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family who was wounded in a recent strike on the church, stands before the altar during a Sunday morning Mass held by the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem at the church... [...]
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Creation Unfinished
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jul 21, 2025 03:16 amOn July 21, 1925, a Tennessee jury convicted John Scopes of teaching evolution. The “Scopes Monkey Trial” has gone down in American history as the caricature of the fight between “religion” and “science.” Why a [...]
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Scopes at 100
By Kathy Schiffer on Jul 21, 2025 12:49 amHe that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart. —Proverbs 11:29 One hundred years ago, on July 21, 1925, high school teacher John [...]
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Losing Green’s Religion
By Matthew Becklo on Jul 20, 2025 09:00 pmJohn Green, the author of the mega-hit The Fault in Our Stars, recently posted a video titled “My Religion.” Green is, by all accounts, a tremendously successful and thoughtful man: He’s a New York Times bestselling author (with [...]
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Pope Leo XIV prays by name for Gaza parish strike victims, renews plea for ceasefire
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 20, 2025 09:46 amPope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus address on July 13, 2025 from Liberty Square in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, where he is spending a two-week summer break. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jul 20, 2025 / 08:46 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Sunday prayed ... [...]
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Evangelizing While in Exile
By Fr. Olek Stirrat on Jul 19, 2025 09:41 pmDuring my time in the seminary, I once found myself confiding in my spiritual director. I say “confiding,” but it was more of a gentle moan, the sort one emits when one’s shoes pinch or [...]
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Mary, Martha, and “the better part”
By Carl E. Olson on Jul 19, 2025 12:00 pmReadings: • Gen 18:1-10a • Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 • Col 1:24-28 • Lk 10:38-42 Americans are, in general, a pragmatic and practical people. We know how to get things done, how to organize, how [...]
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“What is happening to Christianity in Nigeria is incomprehensible.”
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Jul 18, 2025 09:37 pmA prominent Nigerian Catholic researcher and criminologist has issued a stark warning: Christianity could disappear from Nigeria within the next 50 years if the persecution of Christians continues and an agenda of Islamization succeeds. Emeka [...]
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Pope Leo XIV receives call from Netanyahu after Gaza church attack
By Catholic News Agency on Jul 18, 2025 01:00 pmBenjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and Pope Leo XIV. / Credit: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0/Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 18, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV received a phone call Friday from Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime ... [...]
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