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News and analysis covering the Catholic Church, founded by @JDFlynn and @canonlawyered. https://t.co/ZMVTtoWEI6
Joined January 2021
Meet the fascinating female forerunners of St. John Henry Newman -- from @bronwenmcshea .
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Becoming a Roman Catholic in elite and educated British circles was not for the faint of heart in the first half of the 19th century.
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Pope Leo XIV will have a virtual meeting with American high schoolers in November. Here's how organizers are getting ready:.
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“We are beyond excited and are humbled”
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"Newman’s life was a treatise on the human and supernatural virtues of friendship." -- Bishop James Conley.
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The Church's newest Doctor is one of my oldest friends
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Is there a vocations crisis in women's religious life?. Well, that depends on who you ask.
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Is there a 'vocations crisis' in women's religious life?
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How one Dominican friar is helping people get lawyers -- and why.
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“If you are too poor to afford a lawyer ... where is your justice?”
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"We know the verdict, when it comes, is going to be guilty. But in a sense we are starting from that eventual ‘guilty’ and hopefully working from there to get Jimmy released.” -- @MarkSimonHK on the trial of Jimmy Lai.
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A Hong Kong court heard final arguments Monday in the trial against the jailed Catholic publisher
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It's not easy being a seafarer. Meet the Catholics who minister to them.
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“The first port chaplain was Christ”
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"The crisis is not merely a crisis of priestly and religious vocations—though that problem is real. Whole generations of American Catholics have simply stopped making vocational commitments of any kind." -- @Stephen_P_White.
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Whole generations of American Catholics have simply stopped making vocational commitments of any kind.
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The SSPX has a pilgrimage listed in the official Jubilee Year calendar -- but does that make it official? The Pillar explains.
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The Society of Saint Pius X made headlines last week, when the Vatican announced the inclusion of an SSPX pilgrimage in an official list of events for the jubilee year.
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After appointing as chancellor a priest convicted of raping a minor, the Archbishop of Toulouse has reversed his decision:.
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“I decided to reverse my decision”
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Who was the slain nuncio Archbishop Courtney?
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Who was Archbishop Courtney? What happened on the day he died? And what was the aftermath?
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What happens after an Alabama priest is accused of sexual misconduct?.
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What happens after an Alabama priest is accused of sexual misconduct?
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Who will Pope Leo choose to lead his curia?.
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Who will the pontiff choose to lead his Vatican offices?
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You should know about this prophetic African apparition.
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A prophetic African apparition will have a new shrine.
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A Vatican-ordered investigation is underway in the Archdiocese of Lima, Peru.
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The Vatican has commissioned an investigation into allegations of coverup and financial misconduct made against Cardinal Carlos Castillo, archbishop of Lima, according to senior archdiocesan sources...
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RT @jdflynn: Here you go, it's The Tuesday Pillar Post.
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The Tuesday Pillar Post
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The report of past inappropriate behavior emerged after Dukielski’s appointment was announced.
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The report of past inappropriate behavior emerged after Dukielski’s appointment was announced.
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"Such an appointment to such an important position. can only reopen wounds, reawaken suspicions, and disconcert the people of God."
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"Such an appointment to such an important position...can only reopen wounds, reawaken suspicions, and disconcert the people of God."
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"I think it’s profoundly symbolic to have a shrine where ISIS took the largest Christian town in Iraq, [and] blew up and desecrated their churches." .
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The shrine will open in Qaraqosh, 11 years after the Christian population was temporarily driven out by ISIS.
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The new decree continues a three-year saga that began after the archdiocese announced it would sell Holy Rosary Church amid a bankruptcy filing and court order to compensate victims of sexual abuse.
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The Vatican ruled that Archbishop Hundt did not provide a just cause for closing the parish.
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