By Kathy Schiffer on Jun 29, 2023 09:39 pm
It’s hard to imagine, when you look at your sweet little five-year-old, that anyone could want to hurt her; but unfortunately, sex trafficking of children – even very young children – is a real and [...]
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By Russell Shaw on Jun 29, 2023 07:34 pm
Noticing that some of his listeners were having trouble understanding his accented English, the African priest paused his homily, grinned at the nearly all-white congregation, and said, “If you don’t produce more vocations, this is [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jun 29, 2023 04:55 pm
Father Fidelis Moscinski (lower left, standing behind the cross), a well-known pro-life activist and priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR) is seen during a tense standoff between pro-life and pro-abortion demonstrators in Lower Ma... [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Jun 29, 2023 03:00 am
Readings: • Acts 12:1-11 • Psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 • Matthew 16:13-19 One denied Christ after having been chosen by him. The other was chosen by Christ after he [...]
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By Fr. Charles Fox on Jun 29, 2023 02:05 am
St. Teresa of Avila strongly believed that God was her great Friend, and that prayer is in large measure “an intimate sharing between friends.” One time she prayed to God, sharing with her Friend the [...]
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By Amy Welborn on Jun 28, 2023 10:38 pm
At their June 2023 gathering, the United States bishops voted to revisit a section of Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, the latest edition of which was published in 2016. The bishops [...]
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By CWR Staff on Jun 28, 2023 04:00 am
Annual Pride Parade – “On June 23, hundreds of ‘drag queens’ and other LGBTQ activists marched in a parade in Manhattan. The parade marked the beginning of NYC’s ‘pride weekend.’”NYC Pride Marchers Chant: ‘We’re Coming [...]
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By George Weigel on Jun 28, 2023 02:02 am
It would not be quite accurate to describe the Working Document for the October 2023 Synod (its Instrumentum Laboris, or IL) as “disappointing.” No one who has followed the “synodal process” underway since 2021 could [...]
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By Andrew Petiprin on Jun 28, 2023 12:01 am
As another Pride Month comes to an end, the war for the soul of the world has intensified. I thought briefly that the tide may have been turning, but I was wrong. Let me explain. [...]
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By Dawn Beutner on Jun 27, 2023 08:00 pm
When Pope Francis surprised the Catholic world on October 7, 2021, announcing that he was about to make Saint Irenaeus of Lyon a Doctor of the Church, the reasons he gave weren’t that surprising. After [...]
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By Eduardo Echeverria on Jun 27, 2023 06:20 pm
Catholic writers, such as Fr. Gerald E. Murray and CWR editor Carl E. Olson, have given critical attention to the whole document of the Instrumentum Laboris (hereafter IL) for the First Session of the forthcoming [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jun 27, 2023 08:30 am
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 27, 2023 / 07:30 am (CNA).
The Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, has temporarily shut down its Department of Catholic Schools as teachers and parents feud with Archbishop Alexander Sampl... [...]
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By Kathy Schiffer on Jun 26, 2023 07:58 pm
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, at their Spring Plenary Assembly last week in Baltimore, declared this week “Religious Freedom Week.” Beginning June 22, the feast of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, the [...]
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By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Jun 26, 2023 04:11 pm
Former President Trump recently got in hot water with the pro-life movement by criticizing Governor Ron DeSantis’ six-week abortion legislation as “too harsh.” After the Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Trump picked an unnecessary fight [...]
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By Charles J. Russo on Jun 25, 2023 10:10 pm
The battle for religious liberty in education rages on. This important fight continues even though the Supreme Court, in opinions (three in the past six years) by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, invalidated laws limiting [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jun 25, 2023 12:11 pm
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CNA Newsroom, Jun 25, 2023 / 11:11 am (CNA).
The Vatican’s Dicastery of Bishops has completed a formal investigation of Bishop Joseph E. Strickland and the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, according to m... [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Jun 25, 2023 04:00 am
Readings: • Jer 20:10-13 • Psa 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35 • Rom 5:12-15 • Matt 10:26-33 Recently, while watching a basketball game on television, I was horrified when a commercial came on that was completely inappropriate [...]
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By Dawn Beutner on Jun 24, 2023 10:32 pm
Should the pro-life community commemorate the date of the greatest defeat for the protection of unborn children in America: January 22, 1973? Or should pro-lifers celebrate the day of the greatest victory for the unborn: [...]
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By James Watson, Ph.D. on Jun 24, 2023 07:49 pm
Years ago, in the midst of a doctoral program, as my wife and I were expecting our third son, I took a seminar devoted entirely to the novels of Cormac McCarthy. The Road (2006) had [...]
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By Christopher R. Altieri on Jun 24, 2023 02:37 pm
What would real reform of the Church’s criminal justice system look like? In one sense, it is easy to answer: The end result of it would give us a “judicial power [that] stands side by [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Jun 23, 2023 09:00 pm
Earlier this week, the Vatican issued the Instrumentum Laboris—the working document—for the October 2023 Synod. The 27,000 word document is divided in two basic parts: a section of dense descriptions and often repetitive directives, and [...]
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By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Jun 23, 2023 05:24 pm
In Florida, which has become ground zero for America’s educational culture wars, a free speech organization called PEN America has joined forces with the nation’s largest book publisher, Penguin Random House, in a unique offensive. [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Jun 23, 2023 04:00 pm
On the Readings for Sunday, June 24, 2012, The Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jun 23, 2023 11:15 am
Pope Francis addressed approximately 200 prominent artists and other creative people from more than 30 countries in the Sistine Chapel on June 23, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Jun 23, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA).
Pope Francis addresse... [...]
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