The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prefect’s May 7 letter offers guidance for the discussion the U.S. bishops intend to have on the issue in June and counsels caution on several grounds.
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Today is the fortieth anniversary of that assassination attempt on John Paul. It falls on Ascension Thursday, but usually Catholics observe it as the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima.
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The extensive reporting by the ‘Financial Times’ about a shady Vatican land transaction in London, and the pandemic’s restrictions, have combined to focus the Holy Father’s attention on this area.
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When does a crisis response become a permanent shift in democratic culture?
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There are many points of unity between Leo XIII and John Paul II, but in social teaching they might be considered the great champions of human freedom.
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For the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship added seven new invocations to the Litany of St. Joseph.
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The distinct society only has room for a limited sort of distinctiveness.
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The lives of St. John Paul II and soon-to-be Blessed Stefan Wyszynski deserve special attention this month.
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On the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, it is noteworthy that the usual arguments for Joseph being young are not related to his capacity to work, but rather the desire for a saint who lived the virtue of chastity.
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The Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral was instructive in three ways.
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One expects enviro-posing from governments. But a burger chain?
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Both Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict contended that life ethics and social ethics should go together in theory. Pope Francis argues that they really do go together in practice.
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Governments haven’t been frank with people because they don’t trust the people to do what is sensible.
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Walter Mondale’s death refocuses attention on the repeated clashes, during his 1984 presidential campaign, between his Catholic running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, and Archbishop John O’Connor of New York.
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Married 73 years, Queen Elizabeth called Prince Philip her 'strength and stay'.
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In the late evening of his life, Ratzinger/Benedict can be understood as the Catholic Church’s singular, multi-generational response to the reforming agenda of German theology.
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Since the unanimous judgment, four major developments occurred.
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Küng was a creative and brilliant theologian. During and after the council, his project of ecumenical reunion became, in effect, remaking Catholicism to be more like liberal Protestantism.
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