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Politics before faith: JD Vance follows Kennedy and Cuomo

August 28, 2024 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 141

In 1960, then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy set a standard for Catholic politicians seeking federal office in a nation still viscerally anti-Catholic. In a speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts […]

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On assassination anniversary, Catholics reflect on JFK’s faith and life

November 22, 2023 Catholic News Agency 5

President John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, daughter Caroline and son John John arriving for mass at St. Stephen the Martyr Catholic Church in Middleburg, Virginia, on Nov. 10, 1963. / Credit: Diocese of Arlington

CNA Staff, Nov 22, 2023 / 05:00 … […]

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‘Pride Mass’ takes place in Washington, D.C., despite calls for cardinal to intervene

June 15, 2023 Catholic News Agency 10

Crowds exit Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., after the June 14, 2023, "Pride Mass" with "Progress Pride" flags visible in the back of the church. / Peter Pinedo/ CNA

Washington D.C., Jun 15, 2023 / 12:35 pm … […]

The Dispatch

On German bishops, the mayor of NYC, and the lateness of the hour

March 27, 2023 Adam Lucas 6

It’s familiar news by now that the German “Synodal Way” has moved forward with the heterodox “reforms” of women’s ordination and gender ideology. Familiar, too, is Cardinal Robert W. McElroy’s plea for a similar “inclusion” […]

Features

New documentary tells startling story of Ngo Dinh Diem’s life and assasination

February 24, 2023 Jerry Salyer 24

“They started with me on Diem, you remember: ‘He was corrupt, he ought to be killed,’ and so we killed him. We all got together and got a ***-damn bunch of thugs and assassinated him. […]

The Dispatch

Opinion: Catholics must keep fighting Biden’s “single-minded extremism” on abortion

October 31, 2022 Kathy Schiffer 27

There is a common misconception – among the secular community, but also among some Christians – that the Church should not speak on politics, and should not try to “impose” its views on anyone. To […]

Columns

The Fifties, freedom, and the future of the family

July 28, 2022 Dr. Christopher Shannon 25

The overturn of Roe v. Wade should be a cause of celebration for all Catholics and people of good will. Alas, Catholics remain divided along political lines of left and right, while Americans cannot even […]

Analysis

Will the Pope’s project result in real reform—or turn Rome into a Buenos Aires-on-Tiber?

January 31, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 27

The mainstream media portrait of Francis as a smiling, friendly old grandpa has always been at the very best a gross caricature, and more often […]

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Today Pope Francis met with members of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations and discussed the particular challenges facing those in the medical profession with regard to safeguarding all human life. I haven’t seen […]

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