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To Stay in the Fight

People often ask me: What can I do about the current state of the Church and the world? The question…

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Listen to the Communion of Saints

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

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From Here to Eternity

Few things challenge our tranquility and provoke a sense of existential dread more profoundly than the thought of death. If…

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A Self-Destructive Synod

The General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops issued the Working Document (WD) for the Continental Stage of the Synod…

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

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

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Late August Stirrings in Rome

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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Vatican Failures in Cardinal Ouellet’s Case

Pope Francis issued a letter on August 20, 2018 in the aftermath of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report on sexual…

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Clarifications after ‘Dobbs’

The Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs decision is a gift that keeps on giving.  And one of its benefits is clarity,…

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A Lifeless Pontifical Academy

We American Catholics who have been fighting for the life of the unborn child had much to celebrate when the…

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Calming the Storm

In February 2013 Raymond Arroyo asked me to join him, Robert Royal, and Fr. Roger Landry to provide on-air commentary…

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Papal Abuse of Liturgical Law

Fr. Gerald Murray: When the pope concelebrates Mass without wearing required vestments, it’s a recipe for chaos in the life of the Church.

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What Are Bishops Supposed to Teach?

Fr. Murray: Cardinal Hollerich, the Synod on Synodality’s Relator General, would change Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Pray for him.

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