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Infant boy removed from ventilator after controversial ‘brain stem death’ ruling

London, England, Feb 26, 2020 / 04:46 pm (CNA).- Despite his parents’ protests that he showed “signs of life,” a four-month old boy who was [...]
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Pope Francis, Querida Amazonia, and radical chic Catholics

Like many others, I was pleasantly surprised by the contents of Querida Amazonia, which, if not without concerning features, is almost incomparably better than was [...]
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Aventine meditations

Rome’s Aventine Hill has seen a lot. Legend has it that a dispute over the hill led to the fratricidal conflict between the city’s founders, [...]
Essay

St. John Paul II and the Season of Lent

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New [...]
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Canadian bishops lament Vanier’s misconduct, while affirming value of L’Arche

Ottawa, Canada, Feb 25, 2020 / 05:01 pm (CNA).- The Canadian bishops’ conference decried Monday the sexual misconduct of Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche International. [...]

St. John Paul II and the Season of Lent

Essay

Peter M.J. Stravinskas February 25, 2020 5

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City on Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020. This year [...]

Rightly Said: Remembering Neil McCaffrey

Books

Chilton Williamson, Jr. February 24, 2020 3

Neil McCaffrey was the founder and president of Arlington House and The Conservative Book Club, and did promotion work for National Review in its early years. He was also my father-in-law, though to the best [...]

Essay

Reading Scripture during Lent: Sacred Scripture in the Life of the Church

Peter M.J. Stravinskas February 21, 2020 2

Editor’s note: This is the final essay in a three-part series on “Reading Scripture during Lent”. Part One was “A Catholic Understanding of the Bible” and Part Two was “Scripture and Tradition”. “The Church has always [...]

Editorial

Progressives and the problem of being more Francis than the pope

Carl E. Olson February 20, 2020 31

The highly anticipated and now much discussed post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia struck me as mostly workmanlike. That’s not to dismiss the importance of the text, or to overlook significant passages. Nor is to suggest [...]

Features

Priest diagnosed with brain tumor offers his sufferings for abuse victims

Bree A. Dail February 19, 2020 4

Last week, Father John Hollowell announced to readers of his blog and followers on Twitter that he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, and that he will be offering his sufferings for the victims [...]

Features

The Idea of Tradition in Querida Amazonia

Eduardo Echeverria February 18, 2020 4

In the recent post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon), Pope Francis refers to the transmission throughout time—the traditionary process—of the “authentic Tradition of the Church” (§66). Tradition here is spelt with a capital T. [...]

Essay

Saint Augustine on True Worship and the Ecclesial Heart

Dr. Jared Ortiz February 17, 2020 8

As I was reading Augustine’s discussion of true worship in the City of God this past week, I was struck by how naturally Augustine holds together things that contemporary Catholic culture has divided. Let me [...]

Features

National Conservatism and the ‘True Europe’

Alvino-Mario Fantini February 16, 2020 5

There are a lot of fancy terms being used to describe today’s changing political landscape. There’s Eatwell and Goodwin’s ‘national populism,’ Dueck’s ’conservative nationalism,’ and the ‘populist nationalism’ of Steve Bannon. And then there’s ‘national [...]