By Carl E. Olson on Feb 02, 2024 03:00 am
Readings: Mal 3:1-4 Psa 24:7, 8, 9, 10 Heb 2:14-18 Lk 2:22-40 The Gospel of Luke contains many details and stories about the infancy of Jesus not found elsewhere. Today’s Gospel reading is one such [...]
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By Garrett D. Johnson on Feb 01, 2024 07:00 pm
“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Feb 01, 2024 04:15 pm
French farmers stand next to their tractors as they block the road during a demonstration at the French-German border in Ottmarsheim, eastern France, on Feb. 1, 2024, as part of nationwide protests called by several farmers’ unions over pay, tax... [...]
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By Amy Welborn on Feb 01, 2024 03:05 pm
I recently went to Mass at a parish (not in Alabama) and had an experience that brought some of my usual areas of focus into…sharper focus. It was a large, growing, vibrant (as we say) [...]
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By Father Seán Connolly on Feb 01, 2024 02:00 pm
Today is “Lá Fhéile Bríde, Brigid’s Day,” the liturgical feast and Irish national holiday in honor of the monastic foundress of Kildare, who along with Patrick and Columba, is the patron saint of Ireland. The [...]
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By Christopher R. Altieri on Jan 31, 2024 06:56 pm
It really is hard to tell what’s going on in Pope Francis’s Vatican, especially these days, but that’s because there’s plenty—too much—to see. Heading into the weekend, Italy’s Domani published a piece detailing new allegations [...]
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By J. J. Ziegler on Jan 31, 2024 02:16 pm
This past year was a rare but not unprecedented year that saw no canonizations. No saints were canonized in thirteen of the past sixty years (1965, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 31, 2024 09:40 am
Pro-life activists protest the incarceration of nine activists charged with FACE Act violations on Jan. 19, 2024. / Credit: Tyler Arnold/CNA
CNA Staff, Jan 31, 2024 / 10:40 am (CNA).
Half a dozen pro-life activists on Tuesday were found guilty ... [...]
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By George Weigel on Jan 31, 2024 04:00 am
When I first met Yigal Carmon in November 1988, he was counter-terrorism adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a position he held under Shamir’s successor, Yitzhak Rabin, until 1993. If memory serves, our meeting [...]
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By CWR Staff on Jan 31, 2024 03:00 am
A Disenchanted Dream – “This week during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Anglicans were not only invited to conduct Choral Evensong in St Peter’s Basilica, but the Archbishop of Canterbury celebrated a communion [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 30, 2024 10:00 pm
Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Nigerian Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state at a breakfast at Capitol Hill organized by Aid to the Church in Need on Jan. 30, 2024. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNA
Washington D.C., Jan 30, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Bishop Wi... [...]
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By Chilton Williamson, Jr. on Jan 30, 2024 05:45 pm
Panic, fear, and loathing concerning atmospheric warming and the “existential” threat alarmists claim it to be have failed so far to encourage a reconsideration of modern man’s relationship with the natural world and the Promethean [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 30, 2024 09:52 am
The cross of the German “Synodal Way.” / Credit: Maximilian von Lachner/Synodaler Weg
CNA Newsroom, Jan 30, 2024 / 10:52 am (CNA).
In light of a Protestant abuse study unveiled in Germany, a Catholic lay group has called into doubt the “persist... [...]
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By Edward Short on Jan 29, 2024 07:43 pm
In his sprightly tour d’horizon, The Victorian Age in Literature (1911), G.K. Chesterton remarked that “the great Victorian rationalism” had “succeeded in doing a damage to religion” because it had “driven it entirely into the [...]
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By Tod Worner on Jan 29, 2024 06:37 pm
Recently, in search of another penetrating perspective on the origins of the First World War, I happened upon a lecture by historian Christopher Clark on power. Having explored the nature of power in his insightful [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 29, 2024 06:27 am
Turkish police stand guard outside the scene of an armed attack at a Catholic church in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan. 28, 2024. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN
Rome Newsroom, Jan 29, 2024 / 07:27 am (CNA).
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility ... [...]
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By Larry Chapp on Jan 28, 2024 09:43 pm
A new study released by the Pew Research Center indicates that 29% of Americans now self-identify as having no religious affiliation of any kind. And only 63% of Americans identify as Christians, which is 12% [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 28, 2024 05:53 am
The scene outside a Catholic church in Istanbul, Turkey, where a reported armed attack took place on Jan. 28, 2024. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN
Rome Newsroom, Jan 28, 2024 / 06:53 am (CNA).
Two masked assailants opened fire in a Catholic churc... [...]
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By Dawn Beutner on Jan 28, 2024 02:30 am
Saint Thomas Aquinas is justly celebrated as one of the greatest minds in the history of the Church, a brilliant man whose work has continued to impact Catholic teaching in every age since his death [...]
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By David Paul Deavel on Jan 27, 2024 09:00 pm
This year marks the 750th anniversary of the death of Dominican Friar Thomas Aquinas. A Doctor of the Church ranking with the Fathers of the Church in honor and esteem, he died at age 49 [...]
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By J.C. Miller on Jan 27, 2024 04:55 pm
Over the next several days, dioceses all across America will be celebrating Catholic Schools Week (January 28-February 3). Catholic schools will be putting their best foot forward and making their case to parishioners and the [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Jan 27, 2024 09:00 am
On the Readings for Sunday, January 28, 2018 [...]
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By Richard Egan on Jan 26, 2024 08:19 pm
This past Christmas, Jesus did not come to me as a baby in a manger but as a man on a cross. It was Lent in Advent. On December 7, I checked into a hospital [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 26, 2024 05:30 pm
Archbishop José María Gil Tamayo presides over the Archdiocese of Granada, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of Granada
ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 26, 2024 / 05:30 am (CNA).
“I am not going to bless even one homosexual union,” said the archbishop of Gran... [...]
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By Susan Ciancio on Jan 26, 2024 04:50 pm
Those who work every day to protect the vulnerable know that certain segments of the population tend to be invisible and even expendable. The preborn, people with disabilities, those who are sick or nearing the [...]
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