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Villanova historian says Chaput, Cordileone, and Strickland are ‘devout schismatics’

Philadelphia, Pa., Jul 18, 2019 / 06:35 pm (CNA).- A Church historian at Philadelphia’s Villanova University has said three U.S. bishops are “devout schismatics” who [...]
Features

From Evangelicalism to Feminism to Catholicism: A conversation with Abigail Favale

Dr. Abigail Rine Favale graduated from George Fox University with a philosophy degree in 2005, and then earned her doctorate at the University of St. [...]
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The Amazon synod and priestly celibacy

In just three months a relative handful of bishops meeting in Rome is expected to reach a decision with potentially momentous consequences for the entire [...]
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Pope Francis names new director of Holy See press office

Vatican City, Jul 18, 2019 / 04:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis Thursday appointed Matteo Bruni director of the Holy See Press Office, effective July 22. [...]
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Presidential censures and commonsense

“The Senate is no longer a place for any decent man,” mourned Senator Henry Clay, January 1837. This was his judgment following a Senate vote [...]

From Evangelicalism to Feminism to Catholicism: A conversation with Abigail Favale

Features

Carl E. Olson July 18, 2019 5

Dr. Abigail Rine Favale graduated from George Fox University with a philosophy degree in 2005, and then earned her doctorate at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She currently heads the William Penn Honors [...]

Full text of Cardinal Mueller’s analysis on the working document of the Amazon synod

Essay

Catholic News Agency July 16, 2019 8

Vatican City, Jul 16, 2019 / 09:19 am (CNA).- Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, who was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 and 2017, presented an analysis with a series of [...]

Interview

The practical “do’s” and “don’ts” of vocation discernment

Paul Senz July 15, 2019 2

Jesus Christ calls all of us to be his disciples. But how are we each called to live out that discipleship? What will discipleship look like for each of us? How can we surrender ourselves [...]

Essay

Reflections on authority in liturgy today

Dom Alcuin Reid July 14, 2019 44

Editor’s note: This essay was presented in a slightly different form as a plenary address to the Colloquium of the Church Music Association of America in Philadelphia on July 3, 2019. Introduction In some Anglican [...]

Features

“Without Logos, the West is over.” A conversation with Dr. Samuel Gregg

Carl E. Olson July 13, 2019 22

Samuel Gregg, Research Director at the Acton Institute, is the author of numerous essays and 15 books. He has written works on political economy, economic history, the papacy, ethics in finance, and natural law theory; [...]

Books

Heaven, Hell, C.S. Lewis, and Hans Urs von Balthasar

CWR Staff July 11, 2019 30

This partial transcript is from the FORMED Book Club discussion of Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know by Michael Barber, July 8, 2019. Participants were Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder and editor of Ignatius Press; [...]

Essay

Clericalism and the disappearance of popular devotions

Amy Welborn July 10, 2019 12

Steadily they walked, well-dressed, serious, each carrying a staff or a lit candle about a meter long, even the children. Over the two hours or so that we watched, there were hundreds of them—men and [...]

Essay

Seeing sacramentally in a pornified culture

Fr. Thomas Loya July 9, 2019 15

For several years of my life, for several days a week, for several hours a day, I would look at people posing completely naked right in front of me in every position imaginable. Some were [...]