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  • [ July 19, 2025 ] Jerusalem bishop shares distress over conditions in Gaza after accidental Israeli strike News Briefs
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  • [ July 19, 2025 ] Director of Jerusalem Pontifical Mission assesses situation in Gaza after church attack News Briefs
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  • [ July 19, 2025 ] St. Thomas More’s skull may be exhumed from Canterbury vault for saint’s 500th anniversary News Briefs

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Pope Leo XIV and the question of women in Holy Orders

July 16, 2025 Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D. 22

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Robert Cardinal Prevost, ascended to the papacy during a period of profound theological inquiry and heightened institutional introspection within the Church. His election took place against the backdrop of the Church’s […]

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Reality or “Reality”? A critique of Fr. David Tracy’s view of religious pluralism

June 22, 2025 Eduardo Echeverria 11

Editor’s note: The prominent Catholic theologian Fr. David Tracy (1939-2025), who was known for his writings on pluralism, religious diversity, and interreligious dialogue, died on April 29th, at the age of 86. In this essay, aspects […]

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NPR and the Shrinking of the Western Mind

June 18, 2025 Rodney Howsare 53

I have noticed something of a pattern with National Public Radio (NPR) lately: when they interview or feature religious persons, said persons tend also to be homosexual. In February 2023, Ashlee Green wrote a gushing […]

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France moves ahead with legalizing of “assisted dying”

June 5, 2025 Anne Hendershott 28

Last week, France’s National Assembly—the lower house of Parliament—voted 305-199 in favor of legalizing what they are calling “assisted dying.” The legislation now moves on to the Senate, where the proposal will probably become law […]

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The use of human “bodyoids”: An alarming proposal

May 31, 2025 Matthew Nelson 16

Many of us know someone—and perhaps that “someone” is you—whose life depended on an organ transplant. Many also know how challenging it can be to procure a needed organ and receive it in time for […]

Analysis

Education and parents’ rights a century after Pierce v. Society of Sisters

May 26, 2025 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 8

June 1, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (268 US 510). What’s that, you ask? And why should I care? Pierce was a unanimous Supreme […]

Analysis

Where Catholics marry in the United States: A look at the numbers

May 20, 2025 J. J. Ziegler 5

According to data published in the most recent (2024) edition of The Official Catholic Directory, 107,051 marriages took place in the previous year in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States. The Directory classified 85,171 of them as […]

Analysis

Catholic Fundamentalism and the Search for Truth

May 20, 2025 Richard A. Spinello 68

On April 2, 2025, several progressive academics joined together in a symposium to celebrate the new book, Catholic Fundamentalism in America (Oxford University Press, 2025), by Father Mark S. Massa, SJ. (Two historians and an […]

Analysis

Challenges facing the conclave

April 30, 2025 Christopher R. Altieri 9

Like it or not, the Church is a power structure—at least that she has a divinely given hierarchical power structure—and the cardinal electors are the ones who must choose the man to sit atop it, […]

Analysis

Wounded Witness: A different perspective on the clergy sex abuse crisis

April 17, 2025 MIchel Therrien 49

The clergy sex abuse scandal has, without question, been devastating to the life of the Church, especially for all the victims and their families. In all the years I have followed the analysis of the […]

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