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Cardinals concelebrate Mass for the election of the Roman pontiff in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 12. Attending the service were some 170 cardinals
Analysis

Pondering the future, inevitable papal conclave

November 26, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 40

Hyper-analysis of Pope Francis’s Angelus this Sunday will likely run well into the week. That’s not because of anything he said or didn’t, but because of his brief and previously unannounced visit to Rome’s Tiber […]

Features

“The flagship document of Pope Francis’s papacy”: Evangelii Gaudium at Ten

November 25, 2023 J. J. Ziegler 24

On November 24, 2013, Pope Francis signed Evangelii Gaudium [The Joy of the Gospel], his apostolic exhortation on the proclamation of the Gospel in today’s world. The document’s publication followed the October 2012 Synod of […]

Features

Vatican draws line on women’s ordination and homosexuality in new letter to German bishops

November 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 35

Cardinal Pietro Parolin. / Claude Truong-Ngoc via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

CNA Newsroom, Nov 24, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican has informed German bishops in writing that the ordination of women and changes in the Church’s teachin… […]

Essay

Synodal myopia in light of synodality in the family and apostolates

November 23, 2023 Douglas Bushman 17

This essay is occasioned by (1) the conclusion of the first session of the Synodal Assembly (October, 4–29, 2023) on the theme “For a Synodal Church. Communion, Participation, Mission,” marking the beginning of an interim […]

Features

A national Catholic Thanksgiving examen

November 22, 2023 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 1

As we Catholics join our fellow Americans in marking Thanksgiving 2023, let me sound a contrarian note: I have doubts about just how thankful we really are. The greatest single gift human beings have is […]

Features

The state of the pro-life movement in Pennsylvania: An interview with Maria Gallagher

November 20, 2023 CWR Staff 6

For many years, Pennsylvania was among the strongest of pro-life states. Democratic Governor Bob Casey, Sr. (of Planned Parenthood v. Casey fame) was a staunch defender of life, for which he paid a dear political […]

Features

Michigan parish prepares for 500th Palestrina celebration

November 19, 2023 Julian Kwasniewski 4

The year 2025 marks the 500th anniversary of perhaps the most famous composer of Catholic sacred Music: Giovanni Palestrina. At the flourishing parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the […]

Features

‘Anti-Christian hate crimes’ in Europe up 44% in past year, watchdog group says

November 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 15

The Cross of San Lázaro of Seville, Spain, sculpted in the 16th century, was vandalized on the night of Oct. 21-22, 2023. / Credit: Emergencies Seville

CNA Staff, Nov 17, 2023 / 13:28 pm (CNA).
Europe has witnessed a 44% jump in anti-Christian … […]

Columns

Sofia Coppola makes beautiful movies about sad women and immature men

November 16, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 8

For her eighth full-length feature film, Priscilla, Sofia Coppola chose to adapt Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, a story of feminine languor in sympathy with Coppola’s valuable oeuvre thus far. Like the best […]

Features

Too much Twitter in Tyler, too little transparency in Rome

November 15, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 241

The Catholic world is in an uproar over the ouster of a bishop with an outsized public profile that he acquired mostly through social media. If you’re Catholic and you pay attention to these things, […]

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The conference “Accompanying and Welcoming Our Brothers and Sisters with Same-Sex Attraction,” jointly sponsored by the Archdiocese of Detroit and Courage International, with generous funding from the Our Sunday Visitor, featured 30 speakers. It would […]

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