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Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, expressed sorrow at the death of Archie Battersbee. The 12-year-old boy died hours after an English hospital ended life support against his parents’ wishes.
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Read MoreFollowing the passage of the $740-billion Inflation Reduction Act in the Senate, Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, praised senators “for their efforts…
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Celtic Cross on the hill at Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland. / Tom Haymes (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).
CNA Newsroom, Aug 10, 2022 / 01:54 am (CNA).
A group of 500 young Catholics in Ireland have signed a letter saying they love the Church’s teaching, but that…
PASTORAL VISIT TO THE BASILICA OF SAINT LAWRENCE OUTSIDE THE WALLS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 1750th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARTYRDOM OF THE HOLY DEACON HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI First Sunday of Advent, 30 November 2008 Dear brothers and sisters, the thought of Christ’s presence and his return at the end of time[…]
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Read MorePASTORAL VISIT TO THE BASILICA OF SAINT LAWRENCE OUTSIDE THE WALLS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 1750th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARTYRDOM OF THE HOLY DEACON HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI First Sunday of Advent, 30 November 2008 Dear brothers and sisters, the thought of Christ’s presence and his return at the end of time[…]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | eternity, John Courtney Murray, News, The Dispatch, time, Wagner, William F. Buckley |
In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley, Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these lines: What is Siegfried? Siegfried is the opera that begins at 7 p.m. and when […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | death, Jesus Christ, News, St. lawrence, The Dispatch |
Editor’s note: This homily was preached on the feast of St. Lawrence, August 10, 2022, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. On December 27, 1912, my father was born in Lawrence, […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Contraception, Humanae Vitae, John Paul II, lead, News, Pontifical Academy for Life, Pope Paul VI, Vatican |
Over the past few days the Vatican’s top body on life issues has stirred up debate over its assertion that the encyclical Humanae Vitae, one of the church’s most influential documents in the past century, is not covered by papal infallibility.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Biden Administration, Catholic Charities of New York, Church in the US, Immigration, lead, News |
Catholic Charities of New York executive director Msgr. Kevin Sullivan has expressed concern that migrants are arriving at the organization with documentation listing the organization’s offices as their permanent residence.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Church in Europe, lead, News, St. Edith Stein |
On the 80th anniversary of Edith Stein’s death, a cardinal close to Pope Francis celebrated Mass in a Carmelite convent in Auschwitz Tuesday, saying that he shares with the saint his own Jewish origins, his Catholic faith and his vocation to religious life.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Apologetics, Catholic Issues, News |
… to feed the poor? Geez, I used to say that myself in my former life as a Protestant – when I was an anti-Catholic. Actually, if you added up all wealth and property of the Protestant churches and organizations it would FAR exceed that of the Vatican or all the individual dioceses around the […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Gerard Garrigan, O.S.B. I a Man of Unclean Lips I a man Of unclean lips Whose human hands Are less clean still Do dare to hold you Heavenward And utter words No mere mortal Had ever dared To thin…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | In the News, News |
The same day last week that Indiana adopted an abortion ban with limited exceptions, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | In the News, News |
In a two-year-old case in New Jersey, former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is accused of raping and sexually abusing an adolescent…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Commentary, News |
Vladimir Putin was supposed to be the “Good Tsar.” Russian Jews were allowed to visit or emigrate to Israel. Since the…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Commentary, News |
The Ruth Institute, which promotes the sexual sanity of the Catholic Church, has been banned on YouTube, and as Dr….
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | 2022, banning independent thought, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy", Columns, Farcical elections, Francis X. Maier, Francis X. Maier'a "The Power of the Powerless"", News, The Catholic Thing, Václav Havel’s great 1978 essay |
I started this column hoping to focus on Václav Havel’s great 1978 essay, “The Power of the Powerless,” collected here. …
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Read MoreEntrance Antiphon:This is the blessed Lawrence, who gave himself up for the treasure of the Church: for this he earned the suffering of martyrdom to ascend with joy to the Lord Jesus Christ. Saint Lawrence was chief among the seven deacons who served t…
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