New book contemplates holiness and the romance of everyday life
By Paul Senz on Nov 28, 2025 04:00 amThere is a certain majesty and real beauty to be found in everyday life. If we have the eyes to see it, everything from rising in the morning, to going to work, to doing the [...]
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Embracing the Embarrassment of Advent
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 28, 2025 03:00 am“It might be said of Advent that it is not for the faint of heart. To grasp the depth of the human predicament, one has to be willing to enter into the very worst.” — [...]
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LIVE UPDATES: Pope Leo XIV lands in Istanbul, concludes first day in Turkey
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 27, 2025 09:30 pmCNA Staff, Nov 27, 2025 / 18:12 pm Pope Leo XIV ended Nov. 27 in Istanbul, concluding the initial day of his first papal trip abroad in Turkey. The Holy Father will spend Nov. 27 [...]
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Was Squanto Catholic? What we know about this hero of the first Thanksgiving
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 27, 2025 11:39 amSt. Louis, Missouri, Nov 27, 2025 / 11:00 am In 1621, lacking both the skills and the resources necessary to survive in the harsh territory of New England, European pilgrims encountered a miracle: a Native [...]
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Curing the contagion of ingratitude
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Nov 27, 2025 04:00 am“What do you have that you did not receive?” (1 Corinthians 4:6). Western society has lived in open revolt against authority and tradition since the 1960s. Among the many causes and dispositions that underlie this [...]
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The debt we owe to the Mayflower pilgrims
By Marcus Peter on Nov 26, 2025 05:00 pmWhen the Mayflower anchored off Cape Cod in November 1620, its passengers had already accomplished something remarkable. They had survived a perilous Atlantic crossing on a leaky vessel in freezing winds. Yet before they even [...]
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Keeping the Three Thanksgivings Together
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Nov 26, 2025 04:00 pmLooking at the history of American Thanksgiving, we can identify three stages: Thanksgiving as a religious feast, as a family feast, and as a commercial feast. Thanksgiving began as a religious feast, a harvest gathering [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, November 26, 2025
By CWR Staff on Nov 26, 2025 03:00 am1700 Years of Unity – “On Sunday, just ahead of his trip to Türkiye and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV wrote about the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, which is the reason for his [...]
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Federal Court upholds ban on crucifix in seventh-grade class in CT
By Charles J. Russo on Nov 25, 2025 09:55 pmA grave violation of religious freedom continues in New Britain, Connecticut. In Arroyo-Castro v. Gasper the federal trial court denied a teacher’s First Amendment speech and religion claims after officials suspended her for insubordination, involuntarily placing her in an administrative position for having [...]
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Saints and Divorce
By Sandra Miesel on Nov 25, 2025 08:00 pmDivorced saints? How can that be? Catholics are more likely to hear edifying stories about pious wives like St. Catherine of Genoa or Elizabeth Canori-Mora, who stayed with wicked husbands until they prayed their erring [...]
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Vatican defends monogamy against polygamy, polyamory
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 25, 2025 09:00 amnull / Alex Studio/Shutterstock. Vatican City, Nov 25, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A new Vatican document defends marriage as a monogamous relationship amid the growing popularity of polyamory, and addresses the pastoral challenges caused by convers... [...]
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The mysterious nexus of praying for the dead
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Nov 24, 2025 05:54 pmIn 2014, New York City firefighter Matthew Byrne, after years of suffering from substance abuse and depression following PTSD, took his own life. Matthew and I grew up in the same town and went to [...]
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Vietnamese Catholics: their history, their future, and their saints
By Dawn Beutner on Nov 24, 2025 10:10 amWhile Christopher Columbus was crossing the Atlantic Ocean and discovering the New World for Spain, Portuguese explorers were traveling the other way around the globe. That is how they discovered a trade route—and the ancient [...]
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In new book, Cardinal Sarah delves deeply into worship, liturgy, and sacred music
By Paul Senz on Nov 23, 2025 06:25 pmThere is much debate in the Church about what is and is not appropriate in the context of the Sacred Liturgy. The so-called “liturgy wars” rage on with many battlefronts, covering many different aspects of [...]
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American teen brings children’s rosary to seven African nations
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Nov 23, 2025 04:06 pmAsher Kaufman, an 18-year-old from Connecticut, has embarked on a monumental ten-month journey across Africa to foster the growth of the Children’s Rosary movement. Leaving his home in September, Kaufman landed in Uganda on September [...]
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Majority of Australian and French priests are thriving, reports say
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 23, 2025 10:00 amnull / Credit: peacepix/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 22, 2025 / 15:00 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed. Majority of Australian and French priests are thriving, ... [...]
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Why Catholic doctrine on sexual morality cannot change
By Richard A. Spinello on Nov 23, 2025 12:49 amCan the Catholic Church change her mind and teachings about sexual morality? Is it finally time to listen to progressives and abolish the ascetic elements of Christian morality, bringing Catholicism in line with the rest [...]
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Christ the King, exalted by the Cross
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 22, 2025 11:00 amReadings: • 1 Sam 5:1-3 • Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 • Col 1:12-20 • Lk 23:35-43 “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I [...]
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Notre Dame returns ‘Catholic Mission’ to its core values after ‘confusion’
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 21, 2025 09:34 pmWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 21, 2025 / 18:30 pm The University of Notre Dame has reinstated “Catholic Mission” among its staff values after it opted to drop the language in an effort to reprogram the school’s Catholic [...]
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Newman and Ecumenism
By Edward Short on Nov 21, 2025 06:00 pmIn the weeks before and after St John Henry Newman was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church, there was much talk of Newman’s presumed ecumenism. “The proclamation is of ecumenical significance,” Archbishop Bernard Longley said, [...]
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“America First,” “America Only”, and the political order
By Marcus Peter on Nov 21, 2025 05:01 pmMatt Walsh and other commentators have become articulate conduits of a new sociopolitical frustration. The slogan “America First” always had a long and tangled history, yet its present revival signals something more than a campaign [...]
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Nigeria ‘no longer safe for children,’ Catholic bishop says after abduction of 25 girls
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 21, 2025 03:40 pmBishop Bulus Yohana Dauwa of Nigeria’s Diocese of Kontagora. In an interview with ACI Africa on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, Dauwa described the recent kidnapping of 25 schoolgirls is a tragic reminder that the country is no longer “safe for its chil... [...]
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