Category: Stephen P. White

Living Bread Come Down from Heaven

by bcadmin | Nov 16, 2022 | 2022, Columns, eucharist is foretaste of heaven, Jesus’ Eucharistic discourse, News, Robert Royal, Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing, USCCB Anny=ual fall meeting, Weinandy's "Living Bread Come Down from Heaven" | 0 |

The Bishops of the United States have initiated a Eucharistic Revival and will be discussing it today at their annual…

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Listen to the Communion of Saints

by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2022 | 2022, 2023-2024 Synod on Synodality, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek, James V. Schall S.J., Jesus Christ, News, Stephen P. White, Stephen P. White's "Listen to the Communion of Saints", The Catholic Thing | 0 |

This week’s twin celebrations – All Saints and All Souls – provide an occasion to step back from our current…

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A National Study of Catholic Priests

by bcadmin | Oct 20, 2022 | 2022, accountability for the guilty, American priests are happy, bishops are administrators, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Church in the United States, Columns, Dallas charter, false accusations of sex abuse, improve protections for the vulnerable, News, Stephen P. White, Stephen P. White's "A National Study of Catholic Priests", The Catholic Project at Catholic University, The Catholic Thing, zero-tolerance for sex abusers | 0 |

The crisis of clerical sexual abuse, which wracked the Church in the United States in recent years, deeply eroded confidence…

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A Piecemeal Vatican III?

by bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | 2022, 2023-2024 Synod on Synodality, Benedict XVI, Benedict XVI's warnings, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christ’s Mystical Body, Columns, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pope Francis, Pope Francis adds a year to synod, Robert Royal, Robert Royal's "A Piecemeal Vatican III?", Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Our reading today is from the Book of Benedict XVI (A Life: Volume Two), in which he recounts to biographer…

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The Church of 2050

by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2022 | 2022, Archbishop William Lori, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Church contraction in Baltimore, Columns, decline of Catholicism in America, Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek, Francis X. Maier, future of the Catholic Church in America, George Weigel, Joseph Ratzinger, News, Stephen P. White, Stephen P. White's "The Church of 2050", The Catholic Thing | 0 |

The Archdiocese of Baltimore recently announced a new initiative designed to “reimagine Catholic life in Baltimore City and some nearby…

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Two Commentaries on Bishops “Blessing” Same-Sex “Unions”

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Blessing or a Curse? Stephen P. White The Flemish bishops of Belgium published a document this week on pastoral care…

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The Lay Vocation

by bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | 2022, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, decline of Catholicism in America, Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy OFM Cap., News, Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing, The Lay Vocation by Stephen P. White | 0 |

In 1903, the College of Cardinals met in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Leo XIII, who had reigned…

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Late August Stirrings in Rome

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This morning, Deo volente and despite United Airlines, your correspondent is more or less standing, jetlagged but alert, in Rome. It’s an odd time to be here. Ferragosto (named after the August Feast of the Assumption) is Italian vacation time. Virtually everyone is away and many shops, pharmacies, and even restaurants are closed or on reduced schedules. But this year, Pope Francis – who doesn’t take vacations – has decided that over the next five days he will hold an “ordinary consistory” to make 20 new Cardinals, visit L’Aquila (the burial place of Celestine V, the last pope prior to Benedict XVI to abdicate), and preside over a couple of days of discussions by the world’s Cardinals – an “extraordinary consistory” – about the future of the Church and the world. Read more.

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