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Extra, extra! News and views for July 6, 2022

July 6, 2022 CWR Staff 1

Smaller Is Better – Small business is the epitome of the American Dream. It’s the reason why America became the richest nation in the world. Small Business Is America (PragerU) Pray Together – “My first […]

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Extra, extra! News and views for June 29, 2022

June 29, 2022 CWR Staff 10

The Decision – “Guided by the history and tradition that map the essential components of the Nation’s concept of ordered liberty, the Court finds the Fourteenth Amendment clearly does not protect the right to an […]

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Senior German priest leaves Catholic Church

May 17, 2022 Catholic News Agency 11

Andreas Sturm, the former vicar general of the German Diocese of Speyer. / Bistum Speyer via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0).

Speyer, Germany, May 17, 2022 / 08:10 am (CNA).
A senior German priest has announced that he is no longer Catholic, citing his d… […]

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New Polish film features stories of how God works through the priesthood

April 25, 2022 Filip Mazurczak 4

The Polish documentary Powołany (“Called”), which includes dramatized sequences, was released on YouTube on Holy Thursday, the day of the institution of the priesthood, this year. It presents the lives of seven people whose lives […]

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Lent and the Sacraments: Holy Orders

April 8, 2022 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 44

The treatment of the Sacrament of Holy Orders1 in the Catechism begins with the reminder that this is “the sacrament of the apostolic ministry,” conferred in three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate, diaconate; the first two orders […]

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Cardinal Tagle: Evangelization isn’t complicated, it’s ‘a conversation about Jesus’

February 19, 2022 Catholic News Agency 4

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle speaks at a Vatican press conference presenting the 2021 World Mission Day, Oct. 21, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Vatican City, Feb 19, 2022 / 12:15 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has encouraged people not to be… […]

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Pope Francis gives personal reflection on 52 years of priesthood

February 17, 2022 Catholic News Agency 8

Pope Francis addresses the International Theological Symposium on the Priesthood at the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall, Feb. 17, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Vatican City, Feb 17, 2022 / 03:01 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Thursday offered a long reflection … […]

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Vatican symposium to explore relationship between priests and laity

February 9, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. / Franco Origlio/Getty Images News.

Vatican City, Feb 9, 2022 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
The Vatican will hold an international symposium next week to discuss the theology of the relationsh… […]

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Spanish theologian warns German Synodal Way poses great danger to the Church

January 21, 2022 Catholic News Agency 8

Thomas Sternberg and Bishop Georg Bätzing at the Synodal Way’s second Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt, Germany, Sept. 30, 2021. / Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von Lachner.

Alcalá de Henares, Spain, Jan 21, 2022 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Spanish theologian Fr… […]

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K-State football player plans to enter seminary

January 7, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Landry Weber, a K-State player who is discerning and intends to enter seminary. / Courtesy photo.

Salina, Kan., Jan 7, 2022 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
There are nearly 500,000 college athletes, and of those, about 2% will embark in a professional sports… […]

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