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Freedom, Including Religious Freedom, Is Never Free
Editor’s note: The Religious Freedom Institute, which works by education and advocacy to achieve global acceptance of religious freedom as a basic human right, the [...]
Freedom, Including Religious Freedom, Is Never Free
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Editor’s note: The Religious Freedom Institute, which works by education and advocacy to achieve global acceptance of religious freedom as a basic human right, the cornerstone of a successful society, and a source of national [...]
Understanding the 2018 China-Vatican agreement a year later
Clark on China
It has been more than a year since the Sino-Vatican agreement signed on September 22, 2018, and the situation of China’s Catholics continues to attract media attention. In my long career of researching and publishing [...]
Features
A response to the NCReporter’s toxic attack on the Latin Mass
Zita Ballinger Fletcher’s recent National Catholic Reporter essay, titled “The Latin Mass becomes a cult of toxic tradition” is such an adolescent and amateurish a rant, abounding in so many grotesques about an unnamed “Latin [...]
Interview
“Every day has its own Annunciation”
In Night’s Bright Darkness, Sally Read chronicles how the Lord brought her from atheism to the fullness of the Catholic Church. Yet the conversion is just the beginning of a journey that affects countless around [...]
Features
Minnesota bishop kept admitted child abuser in ministry, did not investigate allegation of abuse
Crookston, Minn., Nov 5, 2019 / 02:05 pm (CNA).- Depositions of Crookston Bishop Michael Hoeppner were released today, in which the bishop admits that he did not properly address an allegation of sexual abuse of [...]
Essay
The Spirit versus the letter: Responding to a false view of doctrinal development
The recent Vatican News article by Sergio Centofanti titled “Development of doctrine is a people walking together”, gives a brief account of doctrinal development. Centofanti’s account, however, is troubling and lacking for many reasons. The [...]
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Dying and rising In union with Christ: On All Souls Day
If you aren’t nerdy enough to read The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and also the appendices to the books, then you aren’t nerdy enough. I’m kidding, of course, but it is true [...]
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10 thoughts from St. John Henry Newman on holiness and sainthood
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the Solemnity of All Saints, November 1, 2019, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York [...]
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It has been more than a year since the Sino-Vatican agreement signed on September 22, 2018, and the situation of China’s Catholics continues to attract media attention. In my long career of researching and publishing [...] -
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Update (Sept. 11, 2019): A full CNA transcript of the in-flight papal press conference from Madagascar is now available. Almost six years ago, in October 2013, I wrote my first piece critical of Pope Francis—a [...] -
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Cardinal O’Malley: Pope Francis will publish Vatican McCarrick report ‘soon’ - Catholic Daily:
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