By Jayd Henricks on Sep 26, 2024 11:07 pm
A friend recently sent me a document from the Vatican that at first I thought was a parody of the Synod on Synodality. It was too silly to be serious, so I thought. By now, however, I [...]
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By Matthew Balan on Sep 26, 2024 10:01 pm
A former Jesuit mission church that is considered the mother church of the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware—and connects it with the histories of three neighboring American archdioceses—is in desperate need of support, both figuratively and [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 26, 2024 03:55 pm
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin attends a plenary session during the Summit on Peace in Ukraine on June 16, 2024. / Credit: URS FLUEELER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
CNA Staff, Sep 26, 2024 / 16:55 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Pietro Paro... [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 26, 2024 09:10 am
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 26, 2024 / 10:10 am (CNA).
The Pew Research Center has released the results of a survey of how Catholics in the United States and six Latin American countries feel th... [...]
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By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Sep 26, 2024 04:00 am
“Make everything you can a sacrifice.”—The Angel of Portugal to the three Fatima children Sacrifice stands before us as the hidden key to life. The word itself may sound frightening, conjuring images of blood, destruction [...]
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By Kathy Schiffer on Sep 25, 2024 12:50 pm
A new research project from the American Life League reveals that despite limitations imposed in some states, abortion regulations have not and will not work to stop abortion pills from being sold. The proof is [...]
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By George Weigel on Sep 25, 2024 04:00 am
According to the Vatican yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio, there are north of 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world today. They share certain characteristics and attributes. But I doubt that there is any other among them who [...]
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By CWR Staff on Sep 25, 2024 03:00 am
How Many Popesplainers Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? – “Pope Francis recently added yet another item to the long list of doctrinally problematic statements he has issued through the course of his [...]
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By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Sep 24, 2024 10:52 pm
Pope John Paul II often gratefully spoke of an “ecumenical gift exchange.” In that spirit, the rector of my Anglican boyhood parish, knowing of my interests in both psychology and theology, gave me books by [...]
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By Dawn Beutner on Sep 24, 2024 10:00 am
On September 20, the Catholic Church remembers 103 men, women, and children who died as martyrs in Korea. These canonized saints, mostly Koreans but also French missionaries, died during waves of anti-Catholic persecution by Korean [...]
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By Jim Graves on Sep 24, 2024 04:00 am
Average Joe, a new film from the director and producers of God’s Not Dead and the producers of The Blind, will open in theaters October 11. It stars Eric Close (American Sniper, Nashville) and tells [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 23, 2024 04:50 pm
Father Timothy Radcliffe told the Synod on Synodality delegates that the time before the 2024 assembly “will be probably the most fertile time of the whole synod, the time of germination.” / Credit: Vatican Media
CNA Newsroom, Sep 23, 2024 / 13... [...]
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By Julian Kwasniewski on Sep 23, 2024 03:01 pm
One of my favorite spiritual authors is the Benedictine writer Dom Hubert van Zeller (1905-84). His simultaneous humor and realism, along with brevity, make his work refreshing and accessible. “In writing on this and that [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 23, 2024 10:45 am
Pope Francis meets with members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Sep 23, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has named 28 new consultors to the Vatica... [...]
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By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Sep 22, 2024 05:29 pm
In today’s Gospel, Jesus takes a little child and, counterposing him to his childish disciples, tells them: “Whoever receives a little child like this receives me and receives not me but Him who sent me…” [...]
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By Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM., Cap. on Sep 22, 2024 02:00 pm
Editor’s note: The following talk on the Stigmata of St. Francis was given recently at the Marked With the Wounds of Christ An Academic Conference on the Stigmatization of St. Francis at Franciscan University of [...]
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By Joshua Hren on Sep 21, 2024 12:00 pm
Through this labor-of-love translation, Jason Baxter makes the case for a new take on the Inferno: here is not some dense and heady masterpiece, an unread but highly-regarded doorstopper, or a leather-bound-coffee-table-conversation-piece displayed to impress curious [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Sep 21, 2024 03:00 am
Readings: • Wis 2:12, 17-20 • Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8 • Jas 3:16-4:3 • Mk 9:30-37 Three of the greatest temptations known to man are lust for power, pursuit of illicit pleasure, and [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 20, 2024 05:09 pm
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Baltimore, Md., Sep 20, 2024 / 18:09 pm (CNA).
The governor of Delaware, John Carney, used his executive power on Friday to veto a bill that would have legalized euthanasia in the First State.Carney, t... [...]
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By Matthew Becklo on Sep 20, 2024 01:57 pm
In advance of the Jubilee Year of 2025, Pope Francis declared 2024 a Year of Prayer—a time “dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer in personal life, in the life of the [...]
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By Sean Fitzpatrick on Sep 19, 2024 07:38 pm
The Halloween season seems to creep in earlier every year, heralded this September by a long-anticipated film from the once-visionary director, Tim Burton: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. To call this movie “long-anticipated” also refers to the fact that it’s [...]
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By Russell Shaw on Sep 19, 2024 07:13 pm
“A man that’d expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic, but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer and [...]
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By Rob Marco on Sep 19, 2024 12:54 am
A few years ago, while at Thanksgiving dinner at my sister-in-law’s home, my wife and I were introduced to a guest who was joining us by the name of Peter Houle. “That’s funny,” I told [...]
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By Sara S. Frear, PhD on Sep 18, 2024 09:06 pm
Eating disorders are a prevalent illness of the modern age and in recent decades the number of sufferers has increased globally. The majority are women but growing numbers of men have joined their ranks.1 Variants of [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 18, 2024 03:50 pm
The Church of St. James in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. / Credit: Miropink/Shutterstock
Rome Newsroom, Sep 18, 2024 / 12:50 pm (CNA).
After more than four decades of investigation into alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje in Bosnia a... [...]
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