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Analysis

Polish Bishops’ Amoris Laetitia guidelines stress discernment and compassion, in continuity with Church doctrine

June 12, 2018 Filip Mazurczak 11

The much anticipated guidelines reflect what already is common pastoral practice in Poland, emphasizing accompaniment but uncompromising in their fidelity to the Church’s teaching. […]

Essay

Christ, the Eternal High Priest, and the meaning of priestly celibacy

May 24, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 32

It is the Church’s hope and desire that her celibate clergy (and her consecrated religious, too) would show forth to the world, in a unique […]

The Dispatch

Catholic lessons from an Anglican royal wedding

May 20, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 22

In Cardinal Newman’s nineteenth century, the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church were much closer to each other, both doctrinally and morally, than in the […]

The Dispatch

Dating as a counter-cultural project

April 19, 2018 Nick Olszyk 4

A new documentary from PureFlix and Paulist Productions follows the lives of five single Christians over the course of a year as they attempt to […]

The Dispatch

What are Catholics to make of the royal wedding?

April 10, 2018 Joanna Bogle 25

Can the upcoming nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle be an opening for a larger discussion of marriage? […]

The Dispatch

Bermuda law again respects reality

February 16, 2018 Edward N. Peters 3

While “domestic partnerships” are recognized in Bermuda, some of which partnerships will make it legally easier for same-sex partners to carry on their common life, […]

Features

Cardinal Burke: It is a “source of anguish” to hear suggestions “that I would lead a schism”

January 22, 2018 CWR Staff 45

“The truth of the matter is marriage is not an ideal. It is a reality,” says Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke in a lengthy new interview with […]

The Dispatch

Full text of Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference from Peru

January 22, 2018 Catholic News Agency 5

In a conversation with journalists on his return flight from Peru to Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis discussed the people of Peru and Chile, clerical […]

The Dispatch

Thoughts on a mid-air marriage

January 18, 2018 Edward N. Peters 24

Popes have jurisdiction for the external forum anywhere on earth (cc. 134, 331, 1108), so Francis can officiate at a wedding anywhere, anytime. But officiating […]

The Dispatch

Is the ‘Petrine Privilege’ an exception to Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage?

January 16, 2018 Edward N. Peters 5

Comprising a very small portion of all the marital cases dealt with by the Church world-wide, recent Petrine cases follow complex procedures that evolved in […]

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