Jesus was political and so are we ~ how christians vote matters

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Saturday, January 17, 2026

The late great George Pell and his enemies, Part 2

Sex, Morality, and Truth Embodied

By Monica Migliorino Miller on Jan 11, 2026 02:00 pm
Western culture is fading because its western roots are eroding. This failing culture has reached its lowest point in the emerging culture of death, which is antithetical to what John Paul II calls the culture of [...]
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is dull except for one sharp priest

By Nick Olszyk on Jan 10, 2026 08:48 pm
MPAA Rating: R Reel Rating: 2 out of 5 reels The premise for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is promising; a friendly Catholic priest teams up with a sarcastic detective to solve the [...]
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At consistory, Cardinal Zen slams synodality as ‘ironclad manipulation’ and ‘insult’ to bishops

By Catholic News Agency on Jan 10, 2026 04:30 pm
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun speaks at the Asianews Conference at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, Nov. 18, 2014. - Bohumil Petrik/CNA. Jan 10, 2026 / 11:30 am (CNA). Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun delivered a forceful critique of syn... [...]
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Was it fitting and necessary for Jesus to be baptized?

By Carl E. Olson on Jan 10, 2026 11:00 am
Readings: • is 42:1-4, 6-7 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 • Acts 10:34-38 • Mt 3:13-17 Was it fitting and necessary for Jesus to be baptized? It is an important question, and the answer [...]
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Recovering the truth about the body in a “liquid” age

By Carl E. Olson on Jan 10, 2026 04:00 am
Angela Franks, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America and the President of the Academy of Catholic Theology for 2025–26. Her study and writing focus on identity, the body, the [...]
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After Maduro’s capture, there’s hope for Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, leader says

By Catholic News Agency on Jan 09, 2026 02:10 pm
Artist’s sketch of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores at the New York courthouse where they appeared Jan. 5, 2025. Photos and videos are prohibited, hence this illustration, but journalists are allowed to be present. | Credit: CNN Jan 8, 2026 / 18... [...]
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“Swinging for the fences”: Lessons from my younger brother on living and dying

By Christine Jensen on Jan 16, 2026 04:00 am
December 12, 2021, was the day my younger brother’s scan revealed the hard news that the pain in his left hip—which he jokingly called “a giant tumor”—was indeed precisely that. For months, he had attributed [...]
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Iran, the Quran, and the West

By Marcus Peter on Jan 16, 2026 03:00 am
What is unfolding in Iran today is faithful to the Quran. The present regime represents the mature expression of political Islam as articulated through Quranic command, prophetic precedent, and juridical enforcement. The Iranian theocracy emerged [...]
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Republican senators urge more regulations on abortion pill in Senate hearing

By EWTN News on Jan 15, 2026 06:10 pm
Credit: Carl DMaster/Shutterstock Jan 15, 2026 / 17:10 pm (CNA). As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues its review of the abortion pill mifepristone, Republican lawmakers are repeating calls for stronger federal regulations of the ... [...]
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Man as boundary phenomenon: On rediscovering the image of human nature

By Richard Clements on Jan 15, 2026 04:06 pm
What is man? Carl Trueman argues that this is the most pressing question we face today. Paul Kingsnorth seems to agree; in his recently published book, Against the Machine, Kingsnorth asserts that “We have forgotten who we are, [...]
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Thoughts on America, Age 250

By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. on Jan 15, 2026 04:00 am
Americans are bad at history. As the late Christopher Lasch and many other scholars have noted, we’re ambivalent about the past. We claim to be a “new order of the ages,” words stamped in Latin [...]
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Report: 4,849 Christians murdered worldwide from October 2024 to September 2025

By EWTN News on Jan 14, 2026 04:04 pm
Credit: Lars Hallstrom/Shutterstock Jan 14, 2026 / 17:04 pm (CNA). A total of 4,849 Christians were murdered for their faith worldwide between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025, 373 more than in the same period the previous year, according to th... [...]
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The evangelist in Stanley Prison

By George Weigel on Jan 14, 2026 04:00 am
In a 1974 address to a group of lay Catholics, Pope Paul VI noted that “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 14, 2026

By CWR Staff on Jan 14, 2026 03:00 am
‘Back on the air’ – Fulton Sheen beatification to be announced (The Pillar): “The Holy See is expected to announce in coming weeks a date for the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the Emmy-winning American [...]
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Walk for Life West Coast and OneLife LA to hold events on January 24, 2026

By Jim Graves on Jan 13, 2026 04:24 pm
Two major pro-life walks organized by Catholics will return to California on Saturday, January 24. They are timed roughly in conjunction with the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which struck [...]
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Dozens of Charlotte priests query Vatican over bishop’s move to abolish altar rails, kneelers

By Catholic News Agency on Jan 13, 2026 02:41 pm
St. Patrick Cathedral in the Diocese of Charlotte. | Credit: Diocese of Charlotte Jan 13, 2026 / 11:41 am (CNA). Reacting to Bishop Michael Martin’s Dec. 17, 2025, pastoral letter announcing the impending abolishment of altar rails and kneelers... [...]
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Father in MA succeeds in battle against sexualizing his kindergartener son

By Charles J. Russo on Jan 13, 2026 04:00 am
On December 30, 2025, less than ten weeks after a father had filed suit in Alan L. v. Lexington Public Schools, a federal trial court judge in Massachusetts granted the father’s request for a preliminary injunction. In doing [...]
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Renewal and the Council: A lawyer’s perspective

By James Kalb on Jan 12, 2026 08:41 pm
The men who discussed and approved the documents of the Second Vatican Council also oversaw their implementation. The Church’s response to the Council was nonetheless very different from what they expected. Why did that happen? [...]
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Pope Leo XIV proclaims Franciscan Jubilee Year

By Catholic News Agency on Jan 12, 2026 02:21 pm
St. Francis of Assisi. | Credit: Paolo Gallo/Shutterstock Jan 12, 2026 / 17:21 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a “Special Year of St. Francis” to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death. During this time of grace, which wil... [...]
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Bread Grows in Winter offers bracing vision of faith, Christ-centered triumph

By Luma Simms on Jan 12, 2026 04:30 am
I was heartened to read in Pope Leo XIV’s General Audience of January 7th that he will begin a cycle of catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council. And how providential it is that [...]
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The late great George Pell and his enemies, Part 2

By Dawn Beutner on Jan 11, 2026 05:00 pm
Editor’s note: You can read Part 1 of this column here. In 2014, the newly elected Pope Francis decided to improve the state of the Vatican’s finances. He appointed the Australian cardinal George Pell (1941-2023) [...]
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