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We are living in a Golden Age of long-form punditry. Of course, this started with the advent of the Internet and blogging, but it has just gotten better and better. …
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Trump’s treatment of the vulnerable shifted the US Catholic bishops’ politics
The only possible savior of this relationship is the Democrats’ ability to push the bishops back into the Republican camp.
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Bishop Varden preaches to Pope, Curia on God’s angels, ‘Bernard the realist’ (CWN)
Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, of Trondheim, Norway, reflected on “God’s angels” and “Bernard the realist”—a reference to St. Bernard of Clairvaux—in his February 26 Lenten retreat conferences to the Pope …
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Archbishop Gallagher urges Russia, Ukraine to respect international humanitarian law (Vatican News)
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, called on belligerents in the Russo-Ukrainian War to respect international humanitarian law. Addressing the Permanent …
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Vatican diplomat calls for respect for rights to life, religious freedom; condemns focus on ‘new rights’ (Holy See Mission)
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council on its twentieth anniversary, a Vatican diplomat said that “the human rights project is currently facing a credibility crisis,” in part because of “the …
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Cardinal Zuppi on Ukraine: Church calls for weapons to fall silent (Vatican News)
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, traveled to Rome to preside at the Community of Sant’Egidio’s prayer vigil for peace in Ukraine. During the …
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The Augustinian Pope: Four key themes of Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV and St. Augustine. (Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News and Public Domain) As the saying goes: When a person tells you who they are, believe them. So I argued …
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Your letters: Charlotte, Villanova program and civility
Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to stories about liturgical disputes in the Diocese of Charlotte, a new training for bishops at Villanova University and the demise of civility …
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‘We were instruments of God for them,’ priest says of ICE detention center service
On Ash Wednesday, three religious crossed into the ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, the first time in months that Catholic leaders had been allowed inside to administer sacraments to …
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Your letters: Charleston, Villanova program and civility
Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to stories about liturgical disputes in the Diocese of Charleston, a new training for bishops at Villanova University and the demise of civility …