By Dr. Leroy Huizenga on Feb 01, 2019 01:40 am
“But they’re BORN that way!” my Twitter interlocutor tweet-shouted, referring to gays and lesbians. The time was the height of the online debate about gay marriage, when many of us were linking to pieces articulating [...]
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By Russell Shaw on Jan 31, 2019 06:41 pm
Can a one-day conference at a university breathe life into a cause that lately appears to have stalled: involving the Catholic laity in ending the crisis of authority and trust afflicting the Church in the [...]
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By Nicholas Senz on Jan 31, 2019 12:23 am
By now we’re all familiar with “Uncle Ted,” the nickname Archbishop Theodore McCarrick gave himself. We now know of the sinister association that epithet had—McCarrick would refer to the priests and seminarians who were the [...]
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By Edward N. Peters on Jan 30, 2019 03:31 pm
Apologies for a long post. I don’t have time to write a short one. Canonist Edward Condon has an essay at First Things wherein he calls for the excommunication of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, not on the ground [...]
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By George Weigel on Jan 30, 2019 03:01 am
Peter Steinfels’s long career in journalism included years of service as editor of Commonweal (from which perch he took me to the woodshed more than once), followed by a decade as senior religion correspondent of [...]
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By Christopher R. Altieri on Jan 29, 2019 02:50 pm
Pope Francis says he perceives “inflated expectations” for the February 21-24 meeting of the heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences at the Vatican, on child protection. A good deal of ink has already been spilt [...]
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By Bishop Robert Barron on Jan 28, 2019 04:47 pm
It was the celebration that was particularly galling. On the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, signed into law a protocol that gives practically unrestricted access [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Jan 28, 2019 12:43 pm
Aboard the papal plane, Jan 28, 2019 / 07:52 am (CNA).- Please read below for CNA’s full transcript of the Pope’s July 28 in-flight press conference from Panama City to Rome: Alessandro Gisotti, interim director [...]
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By Conor Dugan on Jan 28, 2019 01:55 am
Fifty years ago this April, Pope St. Paul VI issued the Apostolic Constitution, Missale Romanum, which promulgated the Novus Ordo Missae, the New Rite of the Roman Mass. The Novus Ordo went into effect the [...]
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By Fiorella Nash on Jan 27, 2019 08:35 pm
There are certain events in a nation’s history that etch themselves permanently into the public consciousness. Every American over a certain age will know where he was when he heard that JFK had been assassinated. [...]
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