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Ordinary Things, Extraordinary Genius
‘In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton’ book cover Through paradox and poetry, G. K. Chesterton reveals how the ordinary world points beyond itself to eternal truths.
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Papal message to Catholic media: be a voice of reconciliation in a polarized world (CWN)
In a papal message to the Fédération des Médias Catholiques (Federation of Catholic Media), Cardinal Pietro Parolin encouraged media professionals to be voices of reconciliation in a polarized world.
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Cardinal Krajewski pleads for aid for suffering Ukrainians (Vatican News)
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, appealed for aid for Ukraine. “One cannot remain indifferent to pain, to suffering—we must act,” he said, …
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Iraqi Kurdish leader, Pontiff discuss regional peace (CWN)
Pope Leo XIV received Masoud Barzani, the former president of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, which provided hospitality to an estimated 100,000 Iraqi Christians who fled the advance of the Islamic …
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‘War is back in fashion,’ Pope laments (CWN)
At the conclusion of his January 21 general audience, Pope Leo XIV lamented that “war is back in fashion.”
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Abortion in the Atomic Age: Hiroshima’s Moral Aftermath
PopperfotoAerial view of Hiroshima in June 1946, 10 months after the bombing COMMENTARY: The intentional taking of an innocent life is always gravely wrong — in war or in peace …
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Willful ignorance is a sin that demands repentance
Rather than embrace ongoing, lifelong conversion in faith and knowledge, some politicians and religious leaders choose to stunt their moral and intellectual growth, writes Daniel Horan.
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Greenland’s small Catholic community weighs uncertainty as global tensions rise
In Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, a Catholic community of about 300 people — many of them Filipino immigrants — is following international debate over the future of their home with concern, …
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How might Catholics respond to authoritarian actions?
“There are the countless examples of ordinary Catholics who work hard each day to live out the Gospel’s call to care for the least of these,” writes NCR’s Michael J. …
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Vatican sets beatification for Vietnamese priest long believed slain by communists
An investigation approved by the Vatican concluded that Fr. Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep was killed by two Japanese deserters seeking revenge after Japan’s defeat in World War II.