By Robert R. Reilly on Sep 07, 2023 06:55 pm
On Monday, August 28th, the Wall Street Journal offered a front page feature on “A Sperm Donor’s Quest to See Kids: Man chases a role in the lives of the 96 children he fathered.” The [...]
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By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Sep 07, 2023 05:39 pm
Ideology unsettles not only those pulled into its alternate reality but also those who resist it, for it inspires overactions against its force. Reason strains and struggles to discern reality from subterfuge. Because evil forces [...]
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By Russell Shaw on Sep 07, 2023 02:40 pm
With the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops soon to get underway, there’s a certain question that needs to be faced: Isn’t a Synod on Synodality—which is what this one is supposed [...]
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By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Sep 06, 2023 11:29 pm
It’s always interesting when an historian puts his pen to telling us about another historian. And the current effort is no exception. First off, however, let’s get some unpleasant material out of the way. The [...]
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By Dr. Miriam Sciberras on Sep 06, 2023 08:05 pm
On June 23, the Maltese Government made an abrupt positive pro-life U-turn, shelving an abortion “reform” bill the Labor Government had introduced in November 2022 and hoped to enact by Christmas. It reversed course following [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 06, 2023 12:23 pm
Pope Francis meets with bishops of the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the Vatican on Sept. 6, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Sep 6, 2023 / 11:23 am (CNA).
During a meeting in Rome Wednesday morning, the Ukrainian G... [...]
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By George Weigel on Sep 06, 2023 04:00 am
I wish all those who find themselves concerned, depressed, befuddled, or angry at the present state of the Church could have spent July 3-21 in that city of saints, Cracow, along with my students and [...]
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By CWR Staff on Sep 06, 2023 03:00 am
In Court for Quoting the Bible – “Believe it or not, the Trial of the Century just happened in a courtroom in Helsinki.” We Cannot Say We Weren’t Warned (European Conservative) Breaking the Boredom, Sharing [...]
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By James Kalb on Sep 05, 2023 11:17 pm
The point of Catholic morality is to tell us how best to live. Some are inclined to make it mostly about social justice. When the bishops issue a statement condemning pornography, they say it should [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 05, 2023 06:19 pm
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ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 5, 2023 / 17:19 pm (CNA).
The Archbishop of Londrina, Brazil, Geremias Steinmetz, gave Communion to a Muslim sheik at the funeral Mass for Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, who died a few days ago at ... [...]
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By J. J. Ziegler on Sep 05, 2023 03:00 am
One hundred twenty-five years ago, on September 5, 1898, Pope Leo XIII issued Diuturni temporis (“Of a long time”), the last of his dozen Rosary encyclicals. Pope Leo was eighty-eight years old and had reigned [...]
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By Michael J. Nader on Sep 04, 2023 10:00 pm
Mother Teresa teaches us that work must be based in love in order to be truly fruitful. This truth applies to all work, whether one [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 04, 2023 10:07 am
Pope Francis responds to questions from the press aboard the return flight to Rome from Mongolia. / Vatican Media
Aboard the papal plane, Sep 4, 2023 / 09:07 am (CNA).
In his in-flight press conference returning from Mongolia on Monday, Pope Fr... [...]
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By John Paul Meenan on Sep 04, 2023 03:00 am
In Matthew’s Gospel, Our Lord says that “there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (19:12). Should this be taken literally? There are rumours that the third-century [...]
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By Father George E. Schultze, SJ on Sep 03, 2023 11:17 pm
The powers of the soul; the will of God or individual will? In the First Exercise of the Spiritual Exercises (paras. 45-54), St. Ignatius of Loyola speaks of the “three powers of the soul”: memory, [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 02, 2023 11:46 pm
Khamba Nomun Khan, the head of the Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, accompanied Pope Francis as he made his entrance at the interreligious dialogue event at the Hun Theater in Mongolia on Sept. 3, 2023. / Vatican Media
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Se... [...]
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By Monica Migliorino Miller on Sep 02, 2023 07:09 pm
On May 11, 1978 twenty-seven people—three rows-thick—blocked the hallway leading to the procedure rooms of the Concord Medical Services abortion center in Chicago. I was among the twelve who refused to disperse when police officers [...]
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By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Sep 02, 2023 05:45 pm
St. John’s University in New York is the third largest Catholic university in the United States. Its current enrollment is a tad shy of 20,000 students. I got my start in academics at St. John’s [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Sep 02, 2023 04:00 am
On the Readings for Sunday, September 3, 2017 [...]
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By Dawn Beutner on Sep 02, 2023 03:00 am
On the night of September 2nd and in the early hours of September 3rd in 1792, 116 Catholic men were slaughtered. While 115 of them have been beatified, one has also been canonized. Why did [...]
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By Holly Ordway on Sep 01, 2023 01:45 pm
J.R.R. Tolkien, who died fifty years ago (September 2, 1973), presents a puzzle for our diverse and divided culture. The Lord of the Rings is a worldwide best-seller. It has been translated into more than fifty [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 01, 2023 01:30 pm
Firefighters worked for hours to put out the fire at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Salem, Oregon, Aug. 31, 2023. / Photo courtesy of Abigail Dollins/Statesman Journal
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 1, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).
The Salem Police D... [...]
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