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America the secular? What a changing religious landscape means for US politics
Conventional wisdom about nonreligious Americans’ voting misses some important distinctions.
Month: April 2025
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Notre Dame Law School gathering makes case for abolishing death penalty
The University of Notre Dame Law School hosted for the first time a four-day event to promote the abolition of the death penalty. Its March 24-27 Death Penalty Abolition Week brought to campus nationally known and respected …
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After Lourdes’ decision on Rupnik art, Fátima shrine not planning to remove mosaics
The Basilica of the Holy Trinity at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal. / Credit: Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons …
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Teen’s tumors disappear after prayers to Blessed Solanus Casey
The documentation of Mary’s case was submitted to the Solanus Casey Center. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Diocese of Lansing Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 2, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). …
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Pope St. John Paul II, Doctor of the Church?
The Catholic Church is prudently patient in awarding the title “Doctor of the Church” to her greatest teachers. However luminous someone’s explication of the truths of the Catholic faith may …
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St. John Paul II tirelessly served the church, embraced the world, cardinal says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During his long and fruitful pontificate, St. John Paul II embraced the entire world, which stands yet again in need of his blessing, Cardinal Pietro Parolin …
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Hamas’s Bloodthirsty Rule – “Gazan protests against Hamas’s failed leadership broke out on Tuesday and continued throughout the Strip on Wednesday, the first public opposition shown to Hamas’s rule since …
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Pope John Paul II 20 years later: ‘He lives in hearts’
In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations for today’s World Youth Day. …
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A one-size-fits-all Mass doesn’t serve Black Catholics
Frustrated with the reserved nature of mainstream Masses in the U.S. Catholic Church, I want a worship experience that doesn’t force me to suppress my Black and African way of …
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Sketching lessons in love from Catholic Relief Services
Through the work of Catholic Relief Services, the world has become a better, kinder place for many people. Now, without the support of USAID, their dreams will become much more …