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The Seven in Heaven: Meet the new saints to be canonized this weekend

October 13, 2018 Catholic News Agency 7

Vatican City, Oct 13, 2018 / 06:00 am (ACI Prensa).- Meet the seven people Pope Francis will as officially recognized saints of the Catholic Church on Sunday. Below are brief biographies on each of their […]

Essay

Saints Peter and Paul: “One wins by cross, and one by sword”

June 29, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 2

A consideration of the two Apostles we honor today, a reflection on the Petrine office in the Church, and a challenge to live the implications […]

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A voice crying in the wilderness: On the 50th anniversary of “Humanae Vitae”

May 23, 2018 Father Seán Connolly 6

Pope Paul VI stood firm in the midst of the moral permissiveness which came under the guise of “freedom” in the 1960s, and boldly proclaimed […]

Features

Youth, liturgy, and the need for true worship

April 27, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 10

Liturgy – like the Faith it celebrates – never admits of an “erector-set” approach; good liturgy, true liturgy is received, not fabricated, and it takes […]

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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 […]

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Misunderstanding NFP: Where Catholics and non-Catholics get it wrong

March 28, 2018 Catholic News Agency 23

Dr. Janet Smith, a professor at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and a Catholic speaker and author on marriage and family, on what Humanae Vitae […]

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Seven Last Words from the Cross: “Woman, Behold Your Son”

March 25, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 3

The Lord’s earthly ministry ended on Calvary with the Beloved Disciple and the “woman” brought into a unique relationship with each other by the dying […]

Analysis

Critics misrepresent Cardinal Sarah’s call for reverence in receiving Holy Communion

March 6, 2018 Conor Dugan 59

Why are so many avoiding the key question: Why has belief in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist diminished in recent decades? […]

The Dispatch

“Humanae Vitae” and the key to the mighty mystery of sex

February 5, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 7

St. Paul rhapsodized on the beauty of marital love as a great mystery, indeed the sign of Christ’s love for His Church. Contraceptive intercourse, on […]

Features

“Ecclesial reception” in the Era of Francis

January 16, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 17

Out of more than 5,000 bishops in the universal Church, I don’t think we can consider supporters of the problematic practice of permitting divorced and remarried […]

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