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Month: September 2014
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The Approaching Beatification of “Don Alvaro”
As Pope John Paul II was leaving Opus Dei headquarters in Rome after paying his respects at the wake of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, someone thanked him for coming. The Pope, a future saint, replied, […]
Analysis
Francis, Ecumenism, and the Common Witness to Christ
Although ecumenism has received increased attention from Church authorities at all levels in the decades following the Second Vatican Council, during his short period of time as pontiff Pope Francis has approached this area with […]
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Archdiocese of New York releases statement on Abp. Sheen controversy UPDATED
The day after Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Ill. announced that the sainthood cause of Ven. Fulton Sheen had been suspended by the Vatican “for the foreseeable future,” the Archdiocese of New York released its […]
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Abp. Lori: “the scope of toleration for religious expression and for religious institutions is narrowing.”
From a just-posted Our Sunday Visitor interview with Abp. William E. Lori of Baltimore, chair of the USCCB’s ad hoc committee on religious liberty: Our Sunday Visitor: As the HHS mandate battle continues, what is […]
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Iraqi Christian refugee describes how IS kidnapped her 3-year-old daughter
From Catholic News Service comes this story of an Iraqi Christian woman who says Islamic State militants snatched her three-year-old daughter while the child sat next to her on a bus August 24. The abduction […]
Clark on China
China’s Modern Martyrs: From Mao to Now (Part 4)
Part 4, Resurrection “We should be glad and rejoice. As the Shanghai Catholic youths said: ‘We are greatly honored to have been born and lived at this important time.’” — Cardinal Kung Pin-mei, Sermon for […]
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“The Giver” and the Fading Memory of Christianity
Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel The Giver has garnered a very wide audience over the past two decades, since it has become a standard text in middle schools and high schools across the English-speaking world. With […]
Books
The Roots of the Political Use and Abuse of the Bible
The Bible continues to play a large role in American public life, as politicians, candidates, and activists advert to it directly and employ its cadences in support of a variety of positions, programs, and policies. […]
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TIME for some media “nun-sense”!
“Over the past five years, Roman Catholic communities around the country have experienced a curious phenomenon: more women, most in their 20s and 30s, are trying on that veil. Convents in Nashville, Tenn.; Ann Arbor, […]