By Fr. Charles Fox on Jul 08, 2022 01:32 am
“Go…to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” –Matthew 10:6-7 Just under ten years ago, I heard from a friend I [...]
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By Filip Mazurczak on Jul 07, 2022 06:12 pm
In recent months, as Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has shocked the world, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), has emerged as a brave moral leader, recalling such [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jul 07, 2022 02:06 pm
The scene outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., after the court released its decision in the Dobbs abortion case on June 24, 2022. / Katie Yoder/CNA
Denver Newsroom, Jul 7, 2022 / 12:06 pm (CNA).
When the Supreme Court overturned ... [...]
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By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jul 07, 2022 05:00 am
The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) was a unique ecumenical council. The previous twenty were assembled to address particular doctrinal or ecclesial crises, while John XXIII called Vatican II to layout a new pastoral program for [...]
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By George Weigel on Jul 07, 2022 01:10 am
CRACOW. Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a regime that enjoys a democratic legitimacy absent from Russia for two decades — what [...]
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By Dr. Patrick Toner on Jul 06, 2022 11:05 pm
This is going to be a negative review. I regret that, because I think there is a great need for books like this. It is a book by a professional philosopher, on a topic of [...]
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By CWR Staff on Jul 06, 2022 01:00 pm
Smaller Is Better – Small business is the epitome of the American Dream. It’s the reason why America became the richest nation in the world. Small Business Is America (PragerU) Pray Together – “My first [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jul 06, 2022 11:36 am
Bishop Jude Arogundade in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2022 outside the Belmont House, where he attended a breakfast social with U.S. congressmen and religious freedom advocates. / Shannon Mullen/CNA
Washington D.C., Jul 6, 2022 / 09:36 am (CN... [...]
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By Dawn Beutner on Jul 05, 2022 06:02 pm
What would you do if you were a college student already saddled with college debt and found out that you were pregnant? Or if you were an immigrant with a job but no family, and [...]
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By Thomas M. Doran on Jul 05, 2022 05:02 pm
Today, when we think of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, we are likely to imagine inspired storytellers, talented scholars, committed Christians—iconic men remote from the rest of us. With such gifts, many [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jul 05, 2022 06:49 am
Pope Francis waves at pilgrims from China at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on Sept. 7, 2016. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.
Vatican City, Jul 5, 2022 / 04:49 am (CNA).
Pope Francis said he hopes the Vatican’s provisional agreement with China on the appointment of Catholic bishops will be renewed for the second time in October.
In comments to Reuters published Tuesday, the pope said “the agreement is moving well and I hope that in October it can be renewed.”
The Vatican-China agreement was first signed in September 2018 and then renewed for another two years in October 2020. The terms of the agreement have not been made public.
Pope Francis spoke to Reuters about the China deal in a 90-minute interview which also covered his health, resignation rumors, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
In September 2021, the Vatican confirmed that the sixth Catholic bishop had been ordained under the agreement’s terms.
Seven bishops ordained before the 2018 agreement have also had their positions regularized by the Vatican.
Pope Francis said the appointment of bishops under the deal in China “is going slowly, but they are being appointed.”
The slow process, he said, is “‘the Chinese way,’ because the Chinese have that sense of time that nobody can rush them.”
Father Bernardo Cervellera, former editor-in-chief of AsiaNews, told CNA last year that the bishops who have been nominated and ordained are close to the Patriotic Catholic Association, “so this means that they are very near to the government.”
The Catholic Church is still in need of around 40 more bishops in China, according to Cervellera.
In the Reuters interview, Pope Francis said the Chinese “also have their own problems because it is not the same situation in every region of the country. [The treatment of Catholics] also depends on local leaders.”
He also defended the Vatican-China deal against its critics.
“Diplomacy is the art of the possible and of doing things to make the possible become a reality,” he said.
He compared today’s critics and those who spoke negatively of the Vatican’s diplomatic decisions during the Cold War, when the popes struck deals with Eastern European communist governments in an attempt to protect the interests of the Catholic Church.
“Diplomacy is like that. When you face a blocked situation, you have to find the possible way, not the ideal way, out of it,” the pope said.
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By Christopher R. Altieri on Jul 04, 2022 01:24 pm
I’ve been thinking a lot about my friends on the other side of the Dobbs business. Several of them have said they don’t know what they’re even celebrating this year, as we mark our Independence [...]
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By Dr. Christopher Shannon on Jul 04, 2022 09:00 am
July is the first full month of summer, a time for lazy hazy days of going on vacation, cooling off, doing nothing. For historians, it is the month when things really start to heat up, [...]
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By Bradley J. Birzer on Jul 04, 2022 05:00 am
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on July 3, 2016. In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in [...]
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By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Jul 03, 2022 10:54 pm
“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” (Col. 3:21) The relationship between the preconciliar and postconciliar forms of Mass has become like a problematic marriage needing long-suffering, patience, goodwill, and hatred of [...]
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By Robert R. Reilly on Jul 03, 2022 01:51 pm
The American Founding is increasingly reviled by those with next to no knowledge of its true character. Herewith is a Fourth of July reflection, largely drawn from my book, America on Trial: A Defense of [...]
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By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jul 03, 2022 12:05 am
June 21, 2022, will go down in American educational history as a banner-day for parental rights in education and for the full flowering of the free exercise of religion. On that date, the Supreme Court [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jul 02, 2022 05:38 pm
Photo illustration. / Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 2, 2022 / 08:38 am (CNA).
Americans celebrate their country’s independence on July 4th — as well as the people who formed the United States into the country that it is today. Tho... [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Jul 02, 2022 03:00 pm
Readings: • Is 66:10-14c • Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 • Gal 6:14-18 • Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 Anyone who has seen a sunrise from a viewpoint overlooking a grand vista knows the wonder of [...]
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By James Kalb on Jul 01, 2022 11:07 pm
Why have people become so crazy when there is so much information and so many experts? To answer, we need to know the basic understandings people rely on. These are evidently leading them astray. So [...]
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By Father Seán Connolly on Jul 01, 2022 10:42 pm
June 30th marked the anniversary of the death of one of the most inspiring figures in history of the Church in the United States. When Pierre Toussaint died on June 30, 1853, newspaper articles recounted [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jul 01, 2022 09:00 am
Priests protest at the funeral of Father Vitus Borogo in the archdiocese of Kaduna on June 30, 2022. / Photos courtesy of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna
Rome Newsroom, Jul 1, 2022 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Hundreds of Catholics protested violence a... [...]
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