By Daniel Capó on Feb 15, 2024 08:16 pm
Editor’s note: This conversation between Bishop Erik Varden and Daniel Capó has been published, in its Spanish translation, in the February issue of Ecclesia magazine. It has also appeared in English on Mr. Capó’s site [...]
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By Charles J. Russo on Feb 15, 2024 08:00 pm
In October 2023, the Biden administration, through the Department of Health and Human Services, under the direction of Xavier Becerra, continued its unrelenting attack on pro-life family centers. After a failed attempt to deny financial [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Feb 15, 2024 07:00 pm
Father Patrick Pullicino, an English Catholic priest and neurologist, has been vindicated after being investigated by a UK medical regulation agency for giving his expert opinion in an emergency end-of-life case. / Credit: Christian Concern
CNA... [...]
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By Dawn Beutner on Feb 15, 2024 04:55 pm
Lucrezia Bellini was born in 1444 in Padua, Italy, became a Benedictine nun, and died in her native city in 1469. She is remembered by the Catholic Church as Blessed Eustochium of Padua this week, [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Feb 15, 2024 08:03 am
Icon of the 21 Martyrs of Libya. / Credit: Image courtesy of Tony Rezk, via tonyrezk.blogspot.com
Rome Newsroom, Feb 15, 2024 / 09:03 am (CNA).
The relics of 21 Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS in Libya will be venerated in St. Peter’s Basilica o... [...]
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By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Feb 14, 2024 08:47 pm
A few weeks ago, the priest gave me the most memorable advice that I’ve heard in the confessional in a long time. I had finished recounting my sins, and, before absolution, Father made this observation: [...]
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By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 14, 2024 08:00 am
What is this strange fascination with ashes? By day’s end, in this Church of the Holy Innocents three blocks north of Macy’s in Midtown Manhattan, priests will have imposed ashes on the foreheads of thousands [...]
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By George Weigel on Feb 14, 2024 04:00 am
The traditional Lenten practices of intensified prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are spiritual disciplines to be followed along the six-week pilgrimage from Ash Wednesday to the Easter Triduum. As I suggested in Roman Pilgrimage: The Station [...]
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By CWR Staff on Feb 14, 2024 03:00 am
Too Much Focus on Rome? – “Previous popes aided us in that desire for cultural resistance. This Pope does not. Therefore, perhaps it is time to forge ahead on our own to pursue a life [...]
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By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Feb 13, 2024 08:00 pm
There are two unusual things about this book: It’s coming out for Valentine’s Day. And the title is a simple, strong imperative. The release of Get Married was deliberately planned to coincide with the end [...]
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By Matthew Becklo on Feb 13, 2024 04:31 pm
The Hallow app has quickly become one of the most successful prayer apps in the country—and not just for Catholics. It was the first faith-based app to crack the overall top 10; it boasts over [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Feb 13, 2024 10:00 am
Byzantine era icons in the interior of the church. / Credit: Shutterstock
ACI MENA, Feb 13, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA).
After serving as a museum for more than 79 years, the Turkish government is proceeding with plans to make the Church of the Holy ... [...]
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By Kathy Schiffer on Feb 12, 2024 10:00 pm
“The world is too small for what I intend to do.” – Francesca Cabrini Alejandro Monteverde, the award-winning director of Sound of Freedom and Bella, had never heard of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini when he [...]
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By CWR Staff on Feb 12, 2024 07:58 pm
Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C., a contributor to CWR, and the author of the new book True Confessions: Voices of Faith [...]
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By Susan Ciancio on Feb 12, 2024 05:05 pm
During the Super Bowl yesterday, millions of Americans were able to pause from the craziness of the game and pray. In an ad for Hallow—the Catholic prayer app founded by University of Notre Dame alumni [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Feb 12, 2024 08:00 am
Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province in Nigeria. / Credit: Bishop Emmanuel Badejo
Ado Ekiti, Nigeria, Feb 12, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Catholic bishops in Nigeria’s Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province (IEP) are alarmed by the recurrent a... [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Feb 11, 2024 07:00 pm
“Fasting is a medicine.” — St. John Chrysostom “The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” — Matthew 9:15 “What are you giving up for Lent?” [...]
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By David Paul Deavel on Feb 11, 2024 06:02 pm
Lent is almost here. The Church asks us to make this season one of particular effort to learn holiness’s two aspects: living fully the new life in Christ that began in our baptism and putting [...]
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By J. J. Ziegler on Feb 10, 2024 08:00 pm
On December 16, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced that Pope Francis will canonize Blessed María Antonia of Saint Joseph (1730-1799) on February 11. Born near Santiago del Estero, Argentina, as María Antonia [...]
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By Nathanael Blake on Feb 10, 2024 06:36 pm
Hollywood has lost the plot, and is bricking what should be cinematic layups. The once can’t-miss Marvel franchise is serving up duds. In the hands of Disney, the Star Wars universe is losing whatever fan [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Feb 10, 2024 04:25 pm
Hungarian President Katalin Novak addresses a joint press conference with the Polish president after talks in Warsaw, Poland, on May 17, 2022. / Credit: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images
Budapest, Hungary, Feb 10, 2024 / 17:25 pm (CNA).
Kat... [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Feb 10, 2024 04:00 am
On the Readings for Sunday, February 11, 2018 [...]
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By Larry Chapp on Feb 09, 2024 09:40 pm
The latest document from the DDF, Gestis verbisque, is a breath of fresh air. It addresses a pressing situation long in need of papal attention, stretching back decades, and does so with some uncharacteristic clarity. [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Feb 09, 2024 05:00 pm
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ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 9, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
Any day of the year more than 50 million people are enslaved in the world according to the latest estimate published in a joint report by the International... [...]
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