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Synodality Requires Conversion of Heart More Than New Structures, US Bishops Say...
Promoting synodality in the United States depends more on a conversion of heart than on the creation of new structures, the U.S. bishops emphasized at their fall assembly in Baltimore.“It’s about cultural change, not necessarily structural change or not necessarily canonical changes, but first and foremost a change in how we can relate one to another and the Body of Christ,” said Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore at a Nov. 13 press conference at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) meeting.
How to Prepare Kids With Autism for First Confession...
Fr. Matthew Schneider
Back at the end of May this year, I interviewed Jeanne Lyons about the great things they were doing for autistic students at St. Peter Channel in Roswell, GA (north Atlanta suburb) for autstics. In June, I published an article about them running a sensory-friendly Mass for a decade. At the time, we talked a lot about how she catechizes autistic students...
Get ready for Thanksgiving in 2 weeks with the Theology of Home Thanksgiving Guide...
The Vatican’s China policy is a continuing scandal...
George Weigel
In the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the Holy See’s timing as it renewed its 2018 agreement with the People’s Republic of China, which allows the Chinese Communist Party a significant role in the appointment of Catholic bishops. That renewal took place on October 22: the liturgical memorial of Pope St. John Paul II...
Dismantling a Disorienting Catholic Quirk in ABC’s New Crime Show ‘High Potential’...
Education must be controlled by a child’s parents...
Jeff Mirus
One of the great things about the growth of home schooling and various cooperative arrangements is that it puts control of education back into the hands of parents. I don’t mean that it is essential for those who are parents to control the education of children generally. I mean that parents must retain control of the education of their own children.
What Lay Professionals In Catholic Ministry Want Their Pastors to Know...
Marcel LeJeune
I have worked several decades in Catholic institutions and apostolates and as a result, I have had hundreds of conversations with others who have done the same. There are many blessings and many struggles that go along with working as a lay professional in the Catholic Church. Before I get into the details, let me preface this post with a few thoughts. I have a gift (and a curse) for in-depth critical examination of institutional problems...
What happens to God if Marvel chooses to ‘repent’?
Terry Mattingly
If you are into superhero epics — I will confess some interest in Iron Man and Captain America — then you know that the creators (small “c”) of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been struggling for several years now. Many are convinced that they caught a bad case of what that Elon Musk guy calls the “woke mind virus.” Some critics point to a more specific problem — an obsession with a “strong female character”...
Baltimore, Dr. Barber, and ‘Character Is Conduct’...
J.D. Flynn
Let me tell you about Dr. Gertrude Barber — a holy woman about whom the bishops will receive a presentation today, as part of her canonization process, which began in 2019. Barber was an Erie girl, from the little northwest corner of Pennsylvania that sits northwest of Cleveland, Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie. She was first a teacher, and spent her entire career — and indeed her entire life — as an educator of the most extraordinary kind.
Pope’s Sunday Angelus: ‘Offer Tenderness and Steer Clear of Hypocrisy’...
Bells of Notre Dame Cathedral Ring for the First Time Since Devastating Fire 5 Years Ago...
St. Thérèse's Little Way was a quiet rejection of an insidious heresy...
Constitutional Court in Spain Forces 480-Year-Old Catholic Brotherhood to Admit Woman...
Cardinal Becciu Pushes Back Against Vatican Media Editorial...
Edward Pentin
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the Vatican cardinal who is appealing his embezzlement conviction last year, has pushed back against recent claims made by the Vatican’s chief editorial director, insisting, “If I had cheated the Pope, I certainly would not be here shouting my innocence to the world!” In a commentary published in L’Osservatore Romano and Vatican News Nov. 11, the former deputy Vatican secretary of state said an Oct. 30 editorial by Andrea Tornielli...
7 things to know about Sister Clare Crockett, who died 8 years ago in an Ecuador earthquake...
Catholic Class Mounts Modest Mussorgsky Campaign in Classic Smackdown Over Classical Countdown...
Carrie Gress
Each year the classical radio station in Washington, D.C. WETA (90.9) hosts the annual Classical Countdown. Listeners vote on their top three favorite classical pieces and then the top 100 pieces are played the week of Thanksgiving. For years and years, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (which includes the Ode to Joy) has taken first place...
Roses, Chocolate, and Ambiguity...
Francis X. Maier
I staffed a bishop-delegate in Rome at the 2015 Synod on the Family. Asked, at the time, for possible themes at the next synod, the delegate pressed for (among other ideas) a synod on “what it means to be human.” His reasoning was simple. The key issues facing society and the Church today in the developed world are all anthropological. Who and what is a human being? Is there such a thing as a human “nature”?
Pope’s Wednesday Audience: True Devotion to Mary Always ‘Points to Jesus’...
Synodality and the Perversion of Conscience...
Phil Lawler
Last night, as I prepared a tutorial class, my wife Leila began tapping out a Substack post on how “synodality” might be used to a very damaging end: “The silencing of objective truth in the soul.” Reading her post early this morning, I put off my own plans to write about the dangers of synodality (that will be my next project), and decided to reflect on Leila’s somber warning about the prevalent misunderstanding of a crucial term: conscience.
The Butcher and His Fiend-Like Queen...
Susanna Spencer
Two blood covered hands were raised up in the dim light as Macbeth walked unsteadily from the chambers of Duncan. “This is a sorry sight,” he says to his wife. A few minutes later, after discussion and debate, Lady Macbeth goes into the chamber and then also emerges, having placed the bloody daggers in the hands of King Duncan’s guards...
What Does a Catholic Reading of the Bible Tell Us About the Antichrist?
Clement Harrold
We know remarkably little about who the Antichrist will be and what his arrival on the earth will look like. The very word antichrist only appears in four verses of Scripture, all of them in the Johannine epistles: 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:22, 1 John 4:3, and 2 John 7. The author of these epistles clearly expects his readers to already have some background knowledge of what kind of creature the Antichrist is supposed to be...
St. Michael Prayer: A Better Translation?
Can Science Prove that Prayer Can Heal?
Christopher Kaczor
In his book Miracles Today: The Supernatural Work of God in the Modern World (2021), Craig S. Keener discusses the power of prayer. He presents numerous documented cases of people with serious medical conditions such as multiple sclerosis, cancer, and blindness (verified by physicians) who were healed of their diseases. If these cases are any indication, God has not stopped supernatural interventions in response to prayer...
Pope Francis Marks First Millennium Since Birth of St. Bernard, Patron of Mountaineers...
Pope Adds St. Isaac of Nineveh to Roman Martyrology in Honor of Persecuted Middle East Christians...
Pope Francis Keeps Accidentally Tweeting About the New Orleans Saints — and the Team Is Loving It...
Getting out, Getting Away With It, and Belle the Beast...
How Trump’s Win Could Impact the US Bishops’ Agenda...
Catholics need to live differently, and prepare to pay the cost of our resistance...
If He Only Had a Heart: Tesla’s Tin Man and the Love of Christ...
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