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Some churchmen are embarrassed by their authority. Not Francis
in 1981, john paul ii released familiaris consortio, a document which stated that unless the divorced and remarried abstain from sex, admitt...
Matthew Schmitz
The question no Catholic can avoid
the lutheran pastor and humorist hans fiene recently remarked “the most obnoxious protestants in the world are liberal boomer catholics.” th...
C C Pecknold
'No one enjoys their first glass of beer': Cardinal Hume's advice on prayer
to answer the question, “why does cardinal basil hume’s spirituality still speak to people today?”, i remember something he once told the pr...
The Catholic Herald
How John Paul II's great encyclical is being erased from history
at the heart of the controversy over the dismantling of the john paul ii institute in rome is the effective sacking of two leading moral the...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The Viganò affair has revealed the depth of the Church's crisis
a year ago, archbishop carlo maria viganò was a retired diplomat who was little known beyond the limited world of vaticanologists. he had re...
Fr Mark Drew
Diary: Newman's failures make him an ideal patron for students
at last, newman house university chaplaincy has gone contactless. we still pass the money bags around at mass, as if following a half-rememb...
Fr Stephen Wang
Argentina: Where did it all go wrong?
few things in the realms of the human psyche can prove quite so traumatising as the loss of a high status once enjoyed. the history of argen...
Andrew Cusack
What it means to be an American Catholic
what is america? is it a land, molded by geology and industry, and pregnant with legend? is it a people, shaped by a common history and a sh...
Brandon McGinley
Why a parishioner uprising in Portland backfired
the sight of a dozen elderly, white, progressive catholics singing “we shall overcome” as they protested against an african priest who threw...
Jordan Bloom
Catholics can reclaim the territory seized by eco-warriors
the tsunami of fashionable nonsense that has flooded the public domain in the cause of saving the planet has understandably left many cathol...
Simon Caldwell
The closure of Carfin Grotto's visitor centre is a warning to Catholics
the closure of a pilgrimage centre at a marian shrine in scotland is a sad but seemingly inevitable sign of the times. more than 5,000 peopl...
Simon Caldwell
Will Rome finally intervene in the troubled Diocese of Buffalo?
the protracted crisis in the us diocese of buffalo has piqued rome’s interest, as many of buffalo’s 727,000 catholics have lost confidence i...
Christopher R. Altieri
World news: from Mérida to Melbourne
washington, dc shrine rector investigated the diocese of scranton has begun an investigation intovmgr walter rossi, the longstanding rector ...
Staff writers
The week in quotations
"we never stopped imagining how beautiful our church would be, once fixed" fr george jahola on the reopening of a church desecrated by isis ...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: The gaffe that led to a vocation
in 2012, a web editor at the us sports media company espn was fired for a headline. on a story about the basketball player jeremy lin, who i...
Staff writers
The best of the web: St Bernard, Chaput, and effective preaching
how st bernard speaks to our time at charlotte was both, amy welborn wrote about st bernard of clairvaux’s de consideratione, a set of lette...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Little Sisters, St Augustine and an English martyr
the little sisters of the poor celebrate the 150th anniversary of their presence in philadelphia on saturday august 24. there will be a mass...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Hit film helps unexpected boom in Lourdes visitors
what happened? lourdes is experiencing a surge in visitors, helped by a successful film about the pilgrimage site. according to the times, 2...
Staff writers
The big story: Scholars' letter increases pressure on JPII Institute
what happened? the dispute over the fate of the john paul ii institute has escalated, after 49 scholars objected to the changes. the institu...
Staff writers
August 23, 2019
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