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Vatican says SSPX faces excommunications for ‘schismatic’ bishop consecrations

May 13, 2026 EWTN News 23

The Vatican’s doctrine chief warned Wednesday that the plan of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) to consecrate new bishops without papal mandate will represent a schismatic act resulting in excommunication. “This act will […]

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Doing justice while making Catholic schools affordable

May 13, 2026 George Weigel 21

Before joining what once imagined itself the world’s greatest deliberative body, U.S. Senator Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) was a decorated naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut with four space shuttle missions to his credit. Now, […]

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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 13, 2026

May 13, 2026 CWR Staff 9

‘Synodal Shepherds’ Attack the Sheep (The Catholic Thing): “What the Church has only recently become accustomed to is attacks upon her teaching coming from some of her shepherds, especially from the never-ending pronouncements emanating from […]

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Chicago priest removed after ‘inappropriate conversations’ with children, women

May 12, 2026 Daniel Payne 6

Cardinal Blase Cupich said Father Jose Molina was accused of “improper communications” and was barred from ministering in Chicago. […]

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Reflections on St. Pope John Paul II’s “Letter to the Elderly”

May 12, 2026 Susan Ciancio 5

May is Older Americans Month, a time to reflect upon the contributions and gifts of older Americans and to “reaffirm our commitment to serving” them. Thus, it’s a good time to reflect on the wisdom that […]

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Trump vows to discuss freedom of Jimmy Lai, Christian leaders detained in China

May 11, 2026 Madalaine Elhabbal 4

The president likened the call to free Lai to the complexity of releasing indicted former FBI Director James Comey as families of Chinese prisoners rallied outside the White House. […]

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Opinion: The destructive culture of persona and the increasing loss of character

May 10, 2026 Anne Hendershott 21

California has always sold itself as the place where people can invent or reinvent who they are. And it is within that culture of “borrowed selves” that both the man accused of starting the deadly […]

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“Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creatures”

May 10, 2026 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 2

What happened in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary can and must happen in our own lives. Each of us has received the Holy […]

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Blessed Sacrament stolen from Nigerian adoration chapel

May 9, 2026 Ngala Killian Chimtom 7

The Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, in southern Nigeria, has declared a week of prayer in reparation following the disturbing desecration of the Adoration Chapel at St. Mulumba Parish, where unknown assailants stole a monstrance containing […]

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The most mysterious and enigmatic Person in the Bible

May 9, 2026 Carl E. Olson 22

Readings: • Acts 8:4-8, 14-17 • Psa 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 • 1 Pet 3:15-18 • Jn 14:15-21 How would you answer this question: “Who do you think is the most mysterious and enigmatic […]

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I write these words on the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Merton, one of the greatest spiritual writers of the 20th century and a man who had a decisive influence on me and […]

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