The Wine Is Jesus’ Blood (Catholic Answers): Christ’s blood at the Last Supper could still be present in the chalice even if it didn’t yet have the status of being the ‘blood of the covenant,’ since he hadn’t been slain yet.
Folly in the Seat of Wisdom (The Catholic Thing): “Reports out of New York say that the state’s Department of Health has issued warnings to the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, whose order has, for over a century, run a hospice for patients dying of incurable cancer.”
Courage, The Apostolate That I Know Well (National Catholic Register): “The synod working group’s document on homosexuality has broader implications for Courage International.”
I’ve been Orthodox for over five years. Now I’m totally burned out. (Ghost Drive America – Substack): “Let’s take off the rose-colored glasses and make the lot of you mad at me.”
Idols of the Valley: Pope Leo’s wise but frustrating first missive on AI: “Since the beginning of his papacy a year ago, Pope Leo XIV has held out the promise of offering the world some much-needed wisdom on living well with technology.”
No, the just-war tradition is not ‘outdated’ (Catholic Culture): “Although I generally admired Pope Leo’s first encyclical, I was dismayed to read, in paragraph 192: Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the “just war” theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated.”
“I was found guilty of ‘insult’ for a publication in which I peacefully shared my Christian beliefs”—Finnish Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen (The European Conservative): “The former minister is taking her case to Strasbourg, convinced that her case is no longer simply about religion or Finland but about who decides the limits of acceptable speech in Europe.”
“Re-Americanizing America: The Bond of Creed and Covenant” (Providence): “Our actions have to be toward building something good. That is, we can’t only work against, we must simultaneously work toward something. “
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Bishop Barron blasts Catholic left for ‘demonization’ of Trump amid child trafficking crisis (FOX News): “Bishop Robert Barron said he has been urging Catholics on the left to stop the “demonization” of the Trump administration, even when it comes to highly contentious issues such as immigration and border security.”
Pope Leo calls just war theory ‘outdated’ in new encyclical (Religion News Service): “Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the ‘just war’ theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated,” Leo writes in ‘Magnifica Humanitas.’
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