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Motherhood: The Ultimate Makeover
The daily difficulties are a feature, not a flaw. […]
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Apocalypse How?
Readings: • Acts 13:14, 43-52 • Ps 100:1-2, 3, 5 • Rev 7:9, 14b-17 • Jn 10:27-30 Pop quiz: which book of the Bible describes black helicopters, high-tech warfare involving Russia and China, and computer […]
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Must Roe go? Yes, say Alito’s leaked draft and other critics of abortion precedent
Denver Newsroom, May 6, 2022 / 14:05 pm A leaked Supreme Court draft that could overturn pro-abortion rights precedents in the U.S. drew praise from critics who say the current precedent was built on deeply […]
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Dark magic: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Six years after its release, Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange remains one of the best Marvel movies, and certainly one of the only cinematically interesting installments. In a franchise replete with visually dull, generic action sequences, […]
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Authentic moral reasoning vs. appeals to legalism
When the Church speaks definitively on morality—says that without exception something is wrong—is it declaring a truth or laying down a law? Confusion about that is rampant today. Recently I came across this statement by […]
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What a new Saint and an old secularist can teach us about love of God and country
On May 15 the Catholic Church will canonize Père Charles de Foucauld, a missionary priest active in French Algeria just over a century ago. But his rank of sainthood comes with rancor. Critics of France’s […]
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Pope Francis makes puzzling remarks to Italian daily about Ukraine
There’s been a bit of chatter about Pope Francis’s most recent interview in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera newspaper, but not as much as he or the folks at the Corriere probably wish there […]
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Painful changes for Catholic News Service as domestic operations to close
Pope Francis speaks with representatives of Catholic News Service at the Vatican, Feb. 1, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media.
Denver Newsroom, May 4, 2022 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Catholic News Service, the news agency of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish… […]
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Extra, extra! News and tidings for May 4, 2022
A Vigorous Debate – A dialogue about the nature of analogies, computers, human nature and supernature. Whose pantheism? Which dualism? A Reply to David Bentley Hart (Edward Feser, Blogspot) Vaccine side-effects – There has been […]
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The Russian Path Not Taken
I’ve been thinking recently about Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” and its relationship to a deceased Russian Orthodox priest. As the Soviet Union was crumbling in 1990, two roads metaphorically diverged in a […]