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Month: February 2023

Editorial

Cardinal Cupich misuses the words and teaching of Pope Benedict XVI

February 18, 2023 Carl E. Olson 76

Back in January 2006, I wrote a post titled “Did I read the same encyclical as The New York Times?”, about the Grey Lady’s faintly funny and quite clueless reaction to Benedict XVI’s Deus Caritas […]

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Pope Francis: Laypeople are not guests in the Church

February 18, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis spoke to participants in a Feb. 16-18, 2023, conference on how pastors and laypeople can work together better / Vatican Media

Vatican City, Feb 18, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The Church is a home which priests and laypeople need to car… […]

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103-year-old ‘basketball nun’ Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt releases memoir

February 18, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM. / Credit: Harper Horizon & Harper Select

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 18, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
At 103 years old, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is known… […]

Essay

Yes, Some Moral Acts Are Disordered—Here’s Why

February 17, 2023 Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ 30

Editor’s note: This essay contains frank discussion of sexuality. “END WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE!” According to legend, these words were emblazoned upon a sign at a booth taking signatures for a petition at a Lilith Fair, a […]

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Lawsuit seeks to rescind $250,000 Albuquerque grant to Planned Parenthood

February 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 17, 2023 / 17:36 pm (CNA).
A lawsuit is seeking to rescind a $250,000 grant that the Albuquerque City Council awarded to Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. The plantiffs claim th… […]

The Dispatch

The goal of agape love is perfection

February 17, 2023 Carl E. Olson 11

Readings: • Lev 19:1-2, 17-18 • Psa 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13 • 1 Cor 3:16-23 • Matt 5:38-48 During my first year of college, living a thousand miles from home, I found myself dealing […]

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Spain passes transgender law allowing minors treatment without parental consent

February 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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CNA Newsroom, Feb 17, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
After its passage in the Senate, Spain’s lower house passed the Law for the Real and Effective Equality of Trans Persons and for the Guarantee of LGTBI Rights, which will… […]

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Spain passes new abortion law even more permissive than one upheld by Constitutional Court

February 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The minister of equality of Spain, Irene Montero, in the Congress of Deputies. / Credit: Parliamentary Channel

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 17, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).
Spain’s Congress of Deputies on Thursday passed a new abortion law following its app… […]

The Dispatch

U.S. bishops: FBI document targeting Catholics is ‘religious profiling’

February 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 19

Cardinal Timothy Dolan. / Stephen Driscoll/CNA

Boston, Mass., Feb 17, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) responded Thursday to a leaked document from the FBI that appears to reveal that the bureau’s … […]

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‘He was a good shepherd’: Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine dedicated in Oklahoma City

February 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

A statue of Blessed Stanley Rother at the new shrine in his honor in Oklahoma City. / Alan Holdren/EWTN News

St. Louis, Mo., Feb 17, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
Stanley Rother, born a simple Oklahoma farm boy, became a Catholic priest and volunteere… […]

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