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Love and the Skeptic
Saint Valentine’s Day is a good time to remind ourselves that human love is an imitation, a reflection, of the divine love that created all […]
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Features
The “Old Mass” and the “Novus Ordo” Mass: Irreconcilable differences?
Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally at CWR on July 3, 2022. “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” (Col. 3:21) The relationship between the preconciliar and postconciliar forms of Mass […]
Essay
“Thy Kingdom Come!”: Christ the King reigns in consciences
That Jesus taught His disciples to pray for the coming of the kingdom (Mt 6:9–13; Lk 11:2–4) long before they could fully understand its true nature has long intrigued me. Clearly, Jesus intends to lead […]
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Sinners, Apostles, Martyrs: On the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul
Readings for Sunday, June 29, 2025: • Acts 12:1-11 • Psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 • Matthew 16:13-19 One denied Christ after having been chosen by him. The other was […]
News Briefs
Archbishop Gänswein on Baltic appointment: Ready for ‘the front’
Archbishop Georg Gänswein was the personal secretary of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. / Credit: Bohumil Petrík
CNA Newsroom, Jul 16, 2024 / 09:35 am (CNA).
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI, has sp… […]
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That famous Bible verse and the journey from darkness to light
On the Readings for March 11, 2018, the Fourth Sunday of Lent […]
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True worship and the cleansing of the Temple
On the Readings for Sunday, March 4, 2018, the Third Sunday of Lent […]
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The First Sunday of Lent: Deluges and Deserts, Sin and Salvation
On the Readings for Sunday, February 18, 2018, the First Sunday of Lent […]
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Conference on anniversary of Benedict’s death focuses on legacy defined by love of Christ
Archbishop Georg Gänswein celebrates a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 31, 2023, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI. / Credit: Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Jan 2, 2024 / 11:48 am (CNA).
Friends, schol… […]
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CNA’s top 10 Catholic stories of 2023
The funeral for Pope Benedict XVI, a statue that survived an earthquake, the remarkably well preserved body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, and Pope Francis at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, were among the top Catholic stories of 2023. / C… […]