Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri announced that the two bishops “had been invited” by the Holy Father, which they must be to enter the synod, but the clear impression given was that they were chosen not by Rome but by Beijing.
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The Church offers beauty not as an ancillary project, but as part of her essential mission.
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Excess in any area does often compromise health, so I am not surprised that there are bad mental health outcomes from the idolatry of work. Interestingly, though, “workaholic” remains an ambiguous term, sometimes even complimentary, in a way that “alcoholic” is not.
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Benedict is correct. For Brandmüller and others, the resignation is now major black mark against Benedict, which stains his entire pontificate.
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The crown wins. Duty wins. Elizabeth Mountbatten must lose. All the more so her vice-regal representatives.
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My general intuition about carbon taxes is that they are the most simple, neat economic instrument to reduce carbon use, if that it is the policy goal. But in a country where the federal government just dropped billions to buy a pipeline it can’t build, the idea that the government is capable of something simple and neat is rather fanciful.
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Did Pope Francis change the settled teaching? No. He could have said that the use of the death penalty is unjust, or intrinsically evil or immoral. Rather, he taught that it was “inadmissible,” which is a term apparently chosen because it has not been used before and therefore has no fixed meaning.
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Just as Benedict’s speeches were saturated in history, ancient and contemporary, Gänswein made a bold diagnosis of the current moment.
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We are reaping today the harvest of decades when allegations were routinely dismissed to protect the accused’s status. So, if the price today is that allegations see the light of day that perhaps should not, it is recompense for those long years when allegations that should have seen the light of day did not.
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What Singh meant was that his critics are white, hence privileged, while he is not. What else could he have meant? Not that they are powerful
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Blessed Pino’s feast on the vigil of John Paul’s is a reminder of the message of Veritatis Splendor: namely that baptism makes us capable of following Christ, even to the threshold of martyrdom. Blesseds Pino and Jerzy demonstrate that.
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Sixty-six of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 'calls to action' are either not started or just at the proposed action stage
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The Queen of Soul’s funeral proved a last battle ground for the legacy of Martin Luther King.
Read MoreMcCarrick’s double life does not invalidate the value of the reforms the American bishops adopted in 2002, but it does make his betrayal all the more treacherous.
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Ken Woo’s painting departs from the traditional depiction of angels holding the instruments, opting instead just for two angels, with a collection of instruments of the Passion suspended above them. And here we find presentation of the instruments that is familiar and new.
Read MoreIn a post-McCarrick age, when it is possible to resign entirely from the College of Cardinals, the old rules may no longer apply. A new era may be dawning for those bishops living their retirement years.
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A compendium of columns to help readers understand the newest iteration of the sexual abuse scandals rocking Rome.
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The Church is faced with a question of whether, and how, to keep secrets.
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