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Waiting for a State of Emergency
You may have heard the rumors recently that, should the Society of St. Pius X go through with consecrating new bishops in July, the Vatican plans to excommunicate not only …
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On Moral Hierarchies: Rhetoric, Moral Inversion, and State-Sanctioned Killing
Our Catholic moral tradition has always recognized a hierarchy of moral gravity. Not all wrongs are the same. We know this instinctively. Some are the result of human weakness and …
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Dubai’s Christian leaders pray for peace, thank civil authorities (Fides)
Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant leaders in the United Arab Emirates gathered at a Catholic church in Dubai to pray for peace, over two months after the beginning of the Iran …
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DDF publishes 2024 criticism of German bishops’ guide for blessing irregular unions (Pillar)
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has released a 2024 letter stating that “Blessings for couples who love one another,” a document then under consideration by the German …
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Transalpine Redemptorists denounce ‘post-Vatican II claimants to the papacy’ (Transalpine Redemptorists)
The Transalpine Redemptorists, a traditionalist community that reconciled with the Holy See in 2008, published a document on May 2 denouncing “post-Vatican II claimants to the papacy” as “manifest heretics.” …
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The Leo Chronicles: What makes a just war?
The Leo Chronicles: Brother Leo and Pope Leo discuss what makes a just war or a failure of peace.
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The divinization of Trump is precisely why the Church Fathers wrote the creeds
Once any embattled leader can be cast as savior, any comeback as resurrection, any survival as divine election, Christianity’s central claim — that Christ is the unique mediator — loses …
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The future Pope Leo XIV grew up amid a changing Chicago
Growing up in Chicago and then attending seminary in Michigan as a young teenager, Robert Prevost would have been aware of change taking place in both his hometown and the …
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3 Marian paintings that frame the past year in church history
“Just like the unexpected movement of these three works of art, the historic elections of Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV have reflected surprising turns in the history of the …
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Melkite bishops denounce Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure (AP)
The bishops of the Melkite Catholic Church (CNEWA profile), an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See, denounced the Israeli destruction of civilian buildings in southern Lebanon. …