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by bcadmin | Oct 27, 2022 | 2022, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christine Vollmer, Columns, E. Christian Brugger, Jesus Christ, News, Pontifical Academy for Life head Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Pope Francis, pro-abortion President Biden, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, USCCB’s Committee on Prolife Activities | 0 |
Earlier this week, Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, who heads the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities noted that in a recent…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 9, 2021 | 2021, 7 Habits, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Francis X. Maier, News, Petrine ministry, Pope Francis, St. Ignatius Loyola, Steven Covey, Synod on Synodality, Synod on Synods, The Catholic Thing, The Promise and Peril of Synods, Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living | 0 |
Francis X. Maier: Pope Francis surely intends to foster unity and clarity of belief. Whether the 2023 synod will do so is still to be seen.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Archbishop Charles Chaput, Church closings, COVID-19, News, News Briefs, Pandemic | 0 |
Washington D.C., Jun 3, 2021 / 19:00 pm The Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia last week said that some Catholic bishops were “too compliant” with state and local restrictions on churches during the recent pandemic. “If […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Archbishop Charles Chaput, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Books, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News | 0 |
On a practical level, retired Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia said he wrote his new book, Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living, because his publisher was actively “trying to get me to write in my old age.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 10, 2021 | 2021, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Bishop Georg Batzing of Limburg, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Concerning “Synodality”, Council of Trent, German Catholic Bishops, German Synodal Way, Greek “sun” (with) and “hodos” (path), News, papal authority, Pope Francis, Pope St. Paul VI, The Catholic Thing, Universal Church, Vatican I, Vatican II | 0 |
Russell Shaw: Synodality is good or bad depending on those involved, their understanding of roles, and their respect for Catholic tradition.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2020 | 2020, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Biden and the Bishops, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, denial of Communion, Holy Communion, Joe Biden, News, Russell Shaw, Social Justice, social sin, Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Stephen P. White: Nothing is more antithetical to the ethic of life than the industrial-scale eradication the innocent through abortion.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 16, 2020 | 2020 election, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Archbishop Jose Gomez, Benedict XVI, Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Thomas Tobin, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Featured, Fr. Aidan Nichols, Francis X. Maier, Fulton Sheen, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Joe Biden, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines, Wilton Gregory | 0 |
“If you think that your priests and bishops are not saints, then be one for them.” — Robert Cardinal Sarah I know that many of our readers were irate over USCCB president Archbishop José Gomez’s statement on the 2020 election. Many of you were angry that he referred to Joe Biden as the second Catholic […]
by bcadmin | Aug 30, 2020 | All Saints Day, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Father James Martin, lead, News, News Analysis, quotation, Raymond Arroyo, Roman Curia, Ross Douthat, Sister Simone Campbell, Vatican, Vittorio Messori | 0 |
There’s something fitting about it having been a Catholic priest who coined the famous phrase about being able to accomplish great things as long as you don’t want the credit, because of all environments on earth where that’s true, the Vatican merits a special pride of place.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2020 | Archbishop Charles Chaput, Art & Culture, Featured, illiberalism, integralism, John Courtney Murray, John F. Kennedy, News, Orestes Brownson, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
The apogee of collaborationist Catholicism, alongside its more radical co-religionists, was undoubtedly the day of my birth: November 8, 1960. It was the day John F. Kennedy was elected president. He had already paid the price of admission to the Oval Office with a speech before the Houston Ministerial Association the previous September 12, in […]
by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Anthony Esolen, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Benedict Option, conservatism, Featured, fusionism, Gladden Pappin, J.D. Vance, Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio, News, Oren Cass, Patrick Deneen, Politics, Rod Dreher, Sohrab Ahmari, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Christians are in uncharted political territory. Once a formidable force in our politics, the Religious Right is now effectively irrelevant, undermined as much by its own hypocrisy and short-sightedness as by growing secularism. Until recently, most conservative Christians have subscribed to a philosophy known as fusionism: a combination of free-market economics, social traditionalism, and foreign-policy […]
by bcadmin | Mar 16, 2020 | Archbishop Charles Chaput, Attorney General William Barr, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, News, President Donald Trump | 0 |
The 2020 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 16, 2020 | Archbishop Charles Chaput, Attorney General William Barr, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, News, President Donald Trump | 0 |
The 2020 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus.
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