By David Pinault on Jan 31, 2025 05:00 am
Getting people to read these days is tough. Blame it on our age of social media, electronic games, infinite distractibility: if a text is more than a hundred words in length—beyond say what fills a [...]
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By Dawn Beutner on Jan 30, 2025 08:00 pm
The tragedy of boys failing to grow into good men is not a modern phenomenon. While there are many reasons that young men today drift through life or engage in dangerous behaviors, this is not [...]
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By Nick Olszyk on Jan 30, 2025 07:49 pm
MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating, Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 reels There’s a special joy in watching the beginnings of a filmmaker’s career. Festival shorts, student [...]
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By BK O'Neel on Jan 30, 2025 10:00 am
At their most recent meeting in November, the United States bishops approved proceeding with the beatification cause of an obscure nun from America’s heartland. It is doubtful that even the people in the Diocese of [...]
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By Fr. Olek Stirrat on Jan 29, 2025 08:40 pm
I am often amused by my Protestant friends when they, with great excitement and intrigue, say, “Have you heard what the Pope said?” to which, after hearing them out, respond, “I think you care more [...]
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By Charles J. Russo on Jan 29, 2025 05:55 pm
On January 17, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in a potential blockbuster dispute from Maryland now named Mahmoud v. Taylor. Mahmoud may be the Court’s most significant case on parental rights to direct the upbringing of their children since [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 29, 2025 04:20 pm
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York addresses the audience at the National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on July 18, 2024. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno
CNA Staff, Jan 29, 2025 / 15:20 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of Ne... [...]
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By George Weigel on Jan 29, 2025 04:00 am
I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician; his daughter, my mother, was a medical technologist; my mother-in-law, a nurse. My brother is a physician; [...]
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By CWR Staff on Jan 29, 2025 03:00 am
Restoring a Culture of Life – “The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a statement Jan. 26 expressing gratitude for recent pro-life actions taken by President Donald Trump, including an executive order and [...]
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By Dr. Edward Feser on Jan 28, 2025 10:26 pm
It’s often said that while sticks and stones can break our bones, words can never hurt us. But it isn’t true. Were we mere animals, it would be true, but we’re not. We are rational [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 28, 2025 11:00 am
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CNA Staff, Jan 28, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican on Tuesday released a new “note” addressing the ethical and anthropological implications of artificial intelligence (AI), highlighting distinct... [...]
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By Joseph G. Trabbic on Jan 28, 2025 04:00 am
Reading St. Thomas for the first time can be a challenge. Besides his scholastic vocabulary, another stumbling block for you might be the literary form of his writing. Many of his texts are divided into [...]
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By Casey Chalk on Jan 27, 2025 04:00 pm
There is no Bonaventurian school named after the Franciscan theologian St. Bonaventure, a Doctor of the Church known for both his theological and spiritual writings. Nor is there an Anselmian theological school to honor St. [...]
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By M. V. Dougherty on Jan 27, 2025 02:12 pm
Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church have not been silent on the general dangers posed by the misuse of AI. On several occasions last year, Pope Francis offered remarks about the potential misapplication of various AI technologies. More [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 27, 2025 02:05 pm
Tens of thousands of pro-life advocates march through the heart of San Francisco on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, for the 21st annual Walk for Life West Coast. / Credit: Francisco Valdez/Walk for Life
San Francisco, Calif., Jan 27, 2025 / 11:05 am (... [...]
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By J.C. Miller on Jan 26, 2025 07:22 pm
Research consistently shows that religion is good for you and your children. The importance of passing on the faith to your children may not be a controversial point to readers of a Catholic website, but [...]
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By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jan 26, 2025 04:00 am
January 26th is “Word of God” Sunday. Pope Francis has designated the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time as “Word of God” Sunday to encourage Catholics to read and better understand the Bible. Its proximity to [...]
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By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jan 25, 2025 09:07 pm
Note: The following homily was preached on the feast of St. Timothy (EF), on January 24, 2025, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. Let me begin this evening by unraveling a bit [...]
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By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Jan 25, 2025 05:20 pm
On January 22nd, the United States Senate could not find 60 senators to vote to overcome a filibuster and pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors’ Protection Act. Although S.6 garnered a majority–52-47–it needed 60 votes to [...]
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By Christopher R. Altieri on Jan 25, 2025 04:02 pm
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is working—slowly—toward a full penal trial for the disgraced former celebrity artist-priest, Fr. Marko Rupnik (olim Fr. Marko Rupnik SJ), an accused abuser of dozens of victims, most of them [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Jan 25, 2025 03:00 am
Readings: Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15 1 Cor 12:12-30 or 12:12-14, 27 Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21 The Church has four marks: it is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. These marks, states the [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 24, 2025 04:45 pm
The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona. / Credit: Chess Ocampo/Shutterstock
Denver, Colo., Jan 24, 2025 / 14:45 pm (CNA).
Following President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration, Colorado’s Catholic bishops on Friday encourage... [...]
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By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Jan 24, 2025 02:13 pm
One of Nigeria’s leading clerics, Mgr. Matthew Hassan Kukah has called for an end to what he calls a “culture of death” in Nigeria. The cleric was reacting to the 2025 World Watch List published [...]
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By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Jan 24, 2025 11:00 am
“Nothing so much presses man’s heart as love,” wrote St. Francis de Sales, whose feast day we celebrate today, in Treatise on the Love of God. “If a man know that he is beloved, be [...]
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