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Five recent cases in the pronoun wars in education

Controversy abounds over the rights of instructional personnel who avoid referring to transgender students by names or pronouns inconsistent with their birth sexes because doing [...]
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Cardinal from Amazon: ‘Many of our women are true deaconesses’

Cardinal Leonardo Steiner is archbishop of Manaus, Brazil. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Vatican City, Oct 17, 2024 / 11:55 am (CNA).
Cardinal Leonardo Steiner, the archbishop of Manaus in Brazil who is participating in the Synod on Synodal… […]
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Alarming abortion pill report warns of online dangers

Online predators have a new name and practice, and unlike the nefarious online predators of the past, whose actions result in indeterminate consequences, the actions [...]
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Defending the necessity of baptism: An interview with Fr. Anthony Lusvardi, S.J.

Rev. Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J. is an American Jesuit priest who teaches sacramental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He holds a B.A. [...]
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Crossing the Threshold of Hope after thirty years

On October 20, 1994, something unprecedented in the modern history of the papacy took place: the reigning pope published a book that was not an [...]

Defending the necessity of baptism: An interview with Fr. Anthony Lusvardi, S.J.

Books

Sean Salai October 16, 2024 10

Rev. Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J. is an American Jesuit priest who teaches sacramental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He holds a B.A. in English and philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, [...]

More than an image: On the other lessons from Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

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Dawn Beutner October 15, 2024 4

Every statue, painting, icon, medal, or other representation of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque includes a depiction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This is hardly surprising since it was largely her visions of Jesus Christ, [...]

Columns

An Atheist and a Pope discuss God’s Two Books

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. October 13, 2024 36

Over the past few weeks, digital Catholic social hubs have been ablaze with passionate debates sparked by Pope Francis’s remarks concerning other religions as “paths to God.” It is not my intention here to offer [...]

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Top Jesuit supports ‘LGBTQ Catholics’ event held at order’s headquarters in Rome

Catholic News Agency October 11, 2024 33

The General House of the Society of Jesus in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Madrid, Spain, Oct 11, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
Father Johan Verschueren, the general counsellor and delegate for the Interprovincial Houses and Works of the Soc… […]

Columns

Is Christianity “conservative”?

James Kalb October 10, 2024 26

Last month I pointed out serious problems with progressive Christianity, mostly having to do with the progressive rejection of transcendence. To fill out the discussion, it seems I ought to say something about conservative Christianity. [...]

Books

On the continuity of the Roman Mass: An interview with Fr. Uwe Michael Lang

Paul Senz October 9, 2024 13

The Eucharist is the source and summit, the font and apex, of the Church’s life. As a result, the Mass is at the heart of the Church, a constituent part of the daily and weekly [...]

Features

New Converts, Old Selves

Matthew Becklo October 7, 2024 30

In his First Letter to Timothy, St. Paul, when laying out the qualifications of a bishop, includes this telling remark: “He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit [...]

Features

Encountering Christ the Healer in MyCatholicDoctor

Edward Short October 6, 2024 7

While the need for a more faithful, more far-reaching, and more sustainable Catholic healthcare model has long been acknowledged, especially in circumstances in which the deficiencies of secular healthcare, especially with respect to life and [...]

An Atheist and a Pope discuss God’s Two Books

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. October 13, 2024 36

Over the past few weeks, digital Catholic social hubs have been ablaze with passionate debates sparked by Pope Francis’s remarks concerning other religions as “paths to God.” It is not my intention here to offer [...]
Is Christianity “conservative”?

James Kalb October 10, 2024 26
The liberal and flawed roots of tiresome synodal grievances

Larry Chapp October 5, 2024 50

Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 54

A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...]
Welcome to the Church of Perpetual Change and Confusion

Carl E. Olson October 19, 2023 72
Synodality, Soteriology, and “Sharing the journey”

Carl E. Olson October 10, 2023 21

Five recent cases in the pronoun wars in education

Cardinal from Amazon: ‘Many of our women are true deaconesses’

Alarming abortion pill report warns of online dangers

Defending the necessity of baptism: An interview with Fr. Anthony Lusvardi, S.J.

Crossing the Threshold of Hope after thirty years

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Defending the necessity of baptism: An interview with Fr. Anthony Lusvardi, S.J.

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