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On Brebeuf Jesuit and the Church’s witness to God’s definition of love

It is interesting to observe that in the Catholic New Agency (CNA) report of June 20, 2019 on Archbishop Charles Thompson rescinding recognition of Brebeuf [...]
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Bishop Hying at installation: Serve with love, for it never fails

MADISON, Wisconsin — On his first day as bishop of the Diocese of Madison, Most Rev. Donald Joseph Hying took the long view: he looked [...]
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Cardinal Burke corrects LifeSiteNews: ‘I have never worked with Steve Bannon’

Rome, Italy, Jun 25, 2019 / 12:45 pm (CNA).- In a statement today, Cardinal Raymond Burke issued a correction to a now-removed LifeSiteNews article, which [...]
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How the Catholic faith saved this couple’s marriage

American Catholics have grown accustomed, over the last 30 or 40 years, to the wonderful and moving stories of those who have converted to the [...]
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Cathedral High School in Indianapolis recognizes archbishop’s oversight

Indianapolis, Ind., Jun 24, 2019 / 05:12 pm (CNA).- A Catholic high school in the Indianapolis archdiocese has said it will comply with the archbishop’s [...]

On Brebeuf Jesuit and the Church’s witness to God’s definition of love

Analysis

Douglas Bushman June 25, 2019 2

It is interesting to observe that in the Catholic New Agency (CNA) report of June 20, 2019 on Archbishop Charles Thompson rescinding recognition of Brebeuf Jesuit as a Catholic institution of secondary education, the words [...]

Cardinal Sarah: “We must rebuild the cathedral … We do not need to invent a new Church”

Essay

Cardinal Robert Sarah June 21, 2019 44

Editor’s note: The following Conference was given by H.E Robert Cardinal Sarah at Église Saint François-Xavier in Paris, May 25, 2019, just hours after he visited the Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Paris. ——- Allow me [...]

Essay

Eucharistic examination of conscience on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi

Peter M.J. Stravinskas June 20, 2019 9

This week we find ourselves in another one of those anomalous liturgical situations, wherein the Universal Church celebrates the Solemnity of Corpus Christi on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (as is the case in the [...]

Books

A sorely needed theological justification of the truth of the Catholic faith

Eduardo Echeverria June 18, 2019 10

Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s book The Power of Truth: The Challenges to Catholic Doctrine and Morals Today consists of several essays on a variety of teachings that are currently in the limelight of the Church’s crisis—doctrinal, [...]

Features

Called out of the priesthood?

Fr. Charles Fox June 17, 2019 91

Father Jonathan Morris, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York and former member of the Legionaries of Christ, recently has attracted a great deal of attention by publicly announcing his decision to petition for [...]

Features

Emanuel: Racial violence and Christian forgiveness

Steven D. Greydanus June 17, 2019 56

Forgiveness in the face of murderous violence is a radical act that remains as shocking and controversial today as it was when a Second Temple-era Palestinian prophet commanded his disciples to love and to pray [...]

Books

Fatherhood and the search for culture

Father Seán Connolly June 16, 2019 4

Something both theatrical and absurd happened in front of the General Post Office of Dublin on Easter Monday in 1916. An Irish schoolteacher named Patrick Pearse proclaimed to the passersby that Ireland was no longer [...]

Essay

The Trinity: A Mystery for Eternity

Carl E. Olson June 14, 2019 1

Readings: • Prov 8:22-31 • Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 5:1-5 • Jn 16:12-15 The apologist and novelist Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) dryly noted, in an essay titled “The Dogma is the Drama,” that for [...]