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Why doesn’t Pope Francis celebrate Mass?

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, March 25, 2024 Today dozens of media outlets are reporting that Pope Francis did not deliver a homily at Palm Sunday Mass. That’s true, but no particularly remarkable. Many priests choose to skip the homily on Palm Sunday, after the lengthy reading... read more

A YEAR OF BUMPS IN THE ROAD FOR POPE FRANCIS

By Raymond J. de Souza, First Things, March 25, 2024 The Holy Father’s eleventh anniversary (March 19) fell at a difficult moment, with a global controversy over his Ukrainian “white flag” remarks, in which he said that Ukraine should negotiate an end to the war with Russia. It is... read more

Five suggestions from Mother Angelica for Holy Week

By Walter Sanchez Silva/ACI Prensa Staff, March 24, 2024 Mother Angelica, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), CNA’s parent company, once offered helpful advice for Holy Week. In a program broadcast in March 1994 before Easter, Mother Angelica offered five... read more

Joe Hosts a Heretic

President Biden hosted a cadre of heretics at his St. Patrick's Day party, including Fr. James Martin By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine, March 22, 2024 [Austin Ruse, a contributing editor to Crisis Magazine, president of the Center for Family and Human Rights in New York and Washington DC.,... read more

Are Human Embryos Human Beings?

By Robert P. George, National Review, March 18, 2024 Whether human embryos are human beings is a question resolved by human embryology and developrnental biology. Among the constants in hurnan history is this: When people want to justify killing, enslaving, or otherwise abusing a class... read more

Pope Francis, ‘doctor of the law’

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, March 19, 2024 Pope Francis frequently scolds the “doctors of the law,” the legalists, the clericalists. But his autobiography Life: My Story Through History shows that he fits into those categories himself. While the book is scheduled for... read more

Is ‘Christian Nationalism’ Really a Problem?

ANALYSIS: The greater danger, experts warn, isn’t of an impending ‘Christian nationalist’ takeover, but that the term is being used to discredit Christian participation in the public square. By Jonathon Liedl, National Catholic Register, March 18, 2024 Do you believe that all men are... read more

How to Recognize False Mercy, According to Ven. Fulton Sheen

Among Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s saintly insights and wisdom to keep us on the right path are his teachings on the mistaken notions of mercy. By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register, March 16, 2019 From his television and radio shows to his many writings, Archbishop Futon Sheen... read more

‘For zeal for thy house has consumed me’

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, March 15, 2024 Recounting how Jesus drove the money-changers out of the Temple, the Gospel of St. John [2:17] refers back to Psalm 69: “For zeal for thy house has consumed me.” When that Gospel was read at Sunday Mass two weeks ago, my mind flashed back to... read more

A Neverending Talker and Expert on All Subjects: Pope Francis calls on Ukraine to surrender – by Roberto de Mattei

By Robert De Mattei, Rorate Caeli, March 13, 2024 Catholic Church: Pope Francis calls on Ukraine to surrender? In an interview with Swiss Radio & Television, anticipated by agencies on March 9, Pope Francis called on Ukraine to have the courage to raise the white flag and negotiate. "I... read more

Global perspectives on the Alabama ruling, IVF and when cells become a person

By Jennifer Chesak, Features correspondent, BBC, February 26, 2024 Alabama Supreme Court ruling raises questions about the definition of 'embryo' and whether fertilisation dictates 'personhood'. Here, medical consensus from around the world. In a recent court case over embryos accidentally... read more

Two Who Didn’t Run

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