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Month: March 2020

INTERVIEW: Thanks to Pius XII, Almost a Million Jews Saved from Nazis, Says Jewish Man Who Hated Pacelli But Now Calls Him a Hero (ARCHIVES OPEN TODAY)

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Pope Francis Opens March 2, 2020, Vatican Apostolic Archives Around the Pacelli Pontificate to Scholars

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There Is No ‘Catholic Vote’

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Nearly half a century ago, Brent Bozell and the editors of Triumph did some math: the editors in “The Catholic Vote” (1974) and Bozell in “Toward a Catholic Realpolitik” (1975) observed that Catholics, if unified, would be the most powerful voting bloc in the country and, in fact, the entire world. It’s a fairly obvious […]

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Neither Prot nor Sede

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Jamie Forsythe always felt called to be a priest, according to a CBS News 5 February report. That calling persisted even after pleading guilty in 1989 to attempting to sexually abuse a 15-year-old Kansas boy, serving a prison sentence, and being laicized by the Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City. Forsythe was released from prison after […]

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Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest, dies at 95

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Ernesto Cardenal, the renowned poet and Catholic cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and around Latin America, and whose suspension from the priesthood by St. John Paul II lasted over three decades, died Sunday. He was 95.

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Despite staying home, Pope’s vibe still will be felt during Lenten retreat

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One could make the argument that Francis doesn’t actually have to be in Ariccia or its Casa Divin Maestro (“House of the Divine Master”) for the Roman Curia’s annual retreat this week, because in many ways the experience already carries a distinctly Francis “vibe.”

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The Trinity Is Reflected in the Nature of All Creatures

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The Trinity Is Reflected in the Nature of All CreaturesWe’ve all the heard one about the three-lobed shamrock and the Trinity. But it turns out that God’s triune nature is imprinted on all creatures, according to two of the greatest doctors of the Church in the 1200s—St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure. In the Summa Theologica, Aquinas says that all creatures with an intellect […]

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Virgil C. Dechant: A True Knight

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Obituaries of Virgil C. Dechant, former Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus who died peacefully February 16 at his home in Leawood, Kansas, were factually correct but superficial. Dechant was a much larger man, with far more influence on the Church, than merely listing dates, offices held, and honors bestowed can suggest. Joining creativity […]

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Jean Vanier and us

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A man like Jean Vanier now serves as a dire warning. You think you are a nice guy? You’re not.
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