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Does The New Vatican Document On Catholic Schools Change Anything?

April 22, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Does The New Vatican Document On Catholic Schools Change Anything?

By ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI VATICAN CITY (CNA) — What makes a school or university Catholic? As far as universities are concerned, Pope John Paul II answered this question with his apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae in 1990, which established criteria to regulate the work of universities that called themselves Catholic.Although Ex Corde Ecclesiae is considered a general guideline for all Catholic educational institutions, there is curiously only one reference to it in the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education’s recent instruction on Catholic schools.The rather extensive document, called The Identity of the Catholic School for a Culture of Dialogue, is a practical guide for all schools that want to claim the title of Catholic.The instruction had been in the works for years.…Continue Reading

A Layman And Two Martyrs Of Nazism Soon To Be Raised To The Altars

April 21, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Layman And Two Martyrs Of Nazism Soon To Be Raised To The Altars

By ALESSANDRO DE CAROLIS VATICAN CITY (VATICAN NEWS) — Pope Francis on April 9 received in audience Marcello Cardinal Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorized him to promulgate decrees concerning various causes showing a richness in examples of limitless charity and heroism in the face of violence.The first decree regarded Blessed Artemide Zatti, an Italian layman, originally from Boretto in the Po Valley where he was born in 1880.The family emigrated to Argentina when Artemide was 17 and settled in Bahia Blanca. There the young man met the Salesians and entered the congregation as a professed member, but he came down with tuberculosis. When he recovered, he chose not to become a priest but…Continue Reading

New Eucharistic Movie . . . Hits U.S. Theaters For One Day Only

April 20, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on New Eucharistic Movie . . . Hits U.S. Theaters For One Day Only

By JOE BUKURAS BOSTON (CNA) — A new documentary highlighting the transformative power of the Holy Eucharist will be debuting for one day only in more than 700 theaters across the United States on Monday, April 25.Directed and produced by Spanish filmmakers, the Bosco Films and Hakuna Films documentary ALIVE: Who Is There? features the testimonies of five men and women who share how the True Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist has transformed their lives.“This is not just a movie, but an opportunity for a movement toward greater eucharistic devotion and something that can help create a spark of revival in the United States,” founder of Bosco Films, Lucia Gonzalez-Barandiaran, said in a press release.Tickets for the 90-minute-long, Spanish-language…Continue Reading

Is The Pope Catholic?

April 19, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Is The Pope Catholic?

By JOHN HINDERAKER (Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted with permission from www.powerlineblog.com. John Hinderaker is the president of the Center of the American Experiment, a Minneapolis-based think tank.) + + When my wife and I were in Rome several years ago, we arranged through our hotel for a guide to give us a tour of the Vatican. The guide was a young lady who I could tell was a practicing Catholic. We spent most of the day together, and after we had gotten acquainted she asked me what I thought of Pope Francis. I said it was probably none of my business since I am not a Catholic, but I didn’t think much of him. I said he focuses…Continue Reading

UN Assembly Resoundingly Rebukes Russia Again

April 18, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on UN Assembly Resoundingly Rebukes Russia Again

By JOHN J. METZLER For the third time in a month, the UN General Assembly has resoundingly rebuked Russia for its actions in Ukraine. A tough resolution, supported by 93 countries versus 24 backing Moscow, suspended Russia from the Human Rights Council.The move was as overdue as it proved poetic justice to oust Russia from its seat on the 47 member Geneva-based Council.Though the victory in a sense represented the afterglow reaction to an earlier video speech by embattled Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before the Security Council, the censure reflected global reactions to an appalling litany of war crimes perpetrated by Russian military forces inside Ukraine.Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya urged member states to keep the Human Rights Council from…Continue Reading

Shattering Of An Image

April 17, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Shattering Of An Image

By DONALD DeMARCO The distinguished historian Daniel J. Boorstin wrote The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America to explain “how we have used our wealth, our literacy, our technology, and our progress, to create a thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life.” This unreal world is an image that conceals a reality that, in the view of many, does not have the luster or attractiveness of a beautifully crafted image.As journalist George Will explains, “Today we see that we are living in a society that increasingly resembles an echo chamber lined with mirrors. Amid the sensory blitzkrieg contemporary life, much that is spoken is merely audio wallpaper.”Once in a while, when death occurs or…Continue Reading

Message From Ukraine — Nukes Do Deter

April 16, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Message From Ukraine — Nukes Do Deter

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When he arrived at Christ the Savior Cathedral to pay his respects to the ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who had died of COVID-19, Russian President Vladimir Putin carried a clutch of red roses.The man beside him was carrying a briefcase.That briefcase appeared to be Russia’s version of the “football” that is carried by a military aide to U.S. presidents and contains the codes for launching strategic nuclear weapons.French King Louis XIV had stamped upon his cannon the inscription, Ultima Ratio Regum — The Last Argument of Kings.In our era, nuclear weapons are the ultima ratio of nation-states. And what Putin was saying with his briefcase-carrying aide beside him was that, rather than accept defeat and humiliation in…Continue Reading

Pope Francis… Gives New Vatican Role To Cardinal Turkson

April 15, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Francis… Gives New Vatican Role To Cardinal Turkson

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis on April 4 appointed Peter Cardinal Turkson as the new chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.The Ghanaian cardinal succeeds the 79-year-old Argentine Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, who has led both institutions since 1998.The Pope accepted Turkson’s resignation as prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development last December.Turkson served as the archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana, before he was called to Rome in 2009 to be president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.The 73-year-old cardinal, who speaks six languages, became the first president of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in 2016 after his pontifical council was merged into the new…Continue Reading

Archbishop Shevchuk Says . . . Ukraine War Is A Reminder Of An Invisible Spiritual Battle

April 14, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop Shevchuk Says . . . Ukraine War Is A Reminder Of An Invisible Spiritual Battle

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS ROME (CNA) — The war in Ukraine is a reminder of the invisible spiritual battle that Christians fight every day against the temptation to sin, the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said on March 30.“This war reminds us more and more of the rules of unseen warfare, the spiritual struggle that every Christian wages with the Devil, with evil, and his servants,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said in a video message.“Today I want to recall another rule of this spiritual struggle,” he said. “Evil always hides in the dark. If the Devil and evil deeds are brought to light, if they are debunked, then immediately the Devil loses strength. He is destroyed in the light.”Shevchuk,…Continue Reading

Conservatives Need to Take More Advantage Of The Far Left’s Gifts

April 13, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Conservatives Need to Take More Advantage Of The Far Left’s Gifts

By NEIL PATEL According to Pew, the so-called progressive left makes up only 6 percent of the American population and 12 percent of the Democratic Party. This small group is overwhelmingly white (nearly 70 percent), young, and highly educated. They are also extremely engaged politically, voting and donating to candidates at a higher rate than almost any other political grouping. And they are overrepresented in many key positions of influence, including academia, media, Hollywood and, increasingly, corporate America.The far left’s agenda does not poll well. On issues such as “defund the police” and “open the borders,” most Americans are not buying what the left is selling. Seventy-five percent of the far left thinks other countries are better than America. Fewer…Continue Reading