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New book guides readers in making a daily offering of their lives

Catholics are a deeply liturgical people, and the Church’s liturgies and our lives have natural rhythms as their organizing principle: liturgical seasons, the hours throughout [...]
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Trump attacks Harris on her support of tax-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an event at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on Sept. 20, 2024, in Atlanta. / Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 14, 2024 / 10:47 am (C… […]
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An Atheist and a Pope discuss God’s Two Books

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 [...]
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French authors present exhaustive study of modern proofs for existence of God

The thesis of God: The Science, the Proofs: The Dawn of a Revolution (not yet available in English translation) is summarized, simply and directly, on pages 507-508 by [...]
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San Francisco’s “Prop O” aims to destroy crisis pregnancy centers

In a June 18th press conference at San Francisco’s Planned Parenthood, Mayor London Breed announced yet another pro-abortion measure designed to expand the City’s abortion [...]

An Atheist and a Pope discuss God’s Two Books

Columns

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. October 13, 2024 32

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 [...]

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

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Catholic News Agency October 11, 2024 32

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… […]

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Is Christianity “conservative”?

James Kalb October 10, 2024 23

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. [...]

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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 [...]

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The liberal and flawed roots of tiresome synodal grievances

Larry Chapp October 5, 2024 50

One of the things I have learned in my 65 years of being a Catholic is that the meaning of the term “Church reform” in the post-Vatican II era is almost always a cognate for [...]

Essay

My Father Gives Me Bread: What the LGBTQ+ community needs from the Church

Amy E. Hamilton October 4, 2024 29

Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, [...]

An Atheist and a Pope discuss God’s Two Books

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. October 13, 2024 32

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 23
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

New book guides readers in making a daily offering of their lives

Trump attacks Harris on her support of tax-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners

An Atheist and a Pope discuss God’s Two Books

French authors present exhaustive study of modern proofs for existence of God

San Francisco’s “Prop O” aims to destroy crisis pregnancy centers

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An Atheist and a Pope discuss God’s Two Books

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The liberal and flawed roots of tiresome synodal grievances

My Father Gives Me Bread: What the LGBTQ+ community needs from the Church

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