Looking beyond the numbers on Mass attendance (The Catholic Weekly): “Overall, this study is dominated by the opinions of white, middle class, female, highly educated, non-Mass goers aged between 40 and 60.”
The Archdiocese of Chicago and Cardinal Cupich are facing new controversy over an award given to a donor who funded access to abortion (Zenit): “Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago is facing renewed questions over the Catholic Church’s approach to public honors after the archdiocese named financier Michael J. Sacks as a recipient of its Nostra Aetate Award, despite his reported contribution of $600,000 to initiatives supporting access to abortion in Illinois.”
Evangelizing Secular Society (What We Need Now): “Where Pope Francis had sometimes unsettled French audiences by declining an apostolic journey and describing Europe as a sterile old woman,14 Leo offered a different emphasis: hope, joy, and a renewed willingness to work in the Lord’s vineyard.”
Catholic drinking habits are changing as Americans rethink alcohol’s risks (FOX News): “A historic shift in American drinking habits shows Catholic alcohol consumption reaching record lows, though scientific experts caution against attributing the drop strictly to religious or cultural changes.”
Venite ad me (Charlotte Was Both): “The DDF published a document called ‘Venite ad me – Considerations on the Transmission of the Faith in an Epochal Change.’”
The Pope’s Death Penalty Stance Is Unconvincing (National Review): “Pope Leo reiterated the modern Catholic Church’s position that the death penalty is an attack on the dignity of the human person and that it is ‘inadmissible’ …”
From Dick Durbin to Michael Sacks: Cupich will recognize an abortion-funding donor at a gala for future priests (Infovaticana): “Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, will participate on October 29 in a gala at which the archdiocese will present the Nostra Aetate award to businessman Michael J. Sacks, president and chief executive officer of GCM Grosvenor, who has donated $600,000 to fund initiatives aimed at facilitating access to abortion in Illinois.”
The Catholic Solution to ‘Islam, the left and Western Amnesia.’ (New England Catholic – Substack): “I’m just back from France. We have all been shocked by the fires that have been burning there amongst the people have been on the streets protesting.”
More than 60 Christians killed in Ethiopia ‘massacre’, church official says (BBC): “More than 60 people have been killed in a series of attacks on Christians in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, according to the country’s Orthodox Church.”
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