Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke during the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, June 29, 2019. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 6, 2023 / 10:10 am (CNA). Reports emerged last week that Cardinal Raymond Burke — a prominent American archbishop — will soon lose his current Vatican…
Detroit (ChurchMilitant.com) – A new live-action feature film about the Holy Eucharist is in the works. Angelo Libutti The film, titled The New Manna, is being directed by Angelo Libutti. It aims to explore the enigma of the Holy Eucharist and showcase various Eucharistic miracles that have occurred over time. Libutti has reported that the…
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Two vignettes: Both matters came to mind recently while reading “The Ethicist.” In case you don’t know, “The Ethicist” is a New York Times help column written by Kwame Appiah, who teaches ethics at New York University. The ethical dilemmas his correspondents pose are hardly those of my childhood, which focused on whether to bring…
You don’t see it as much anymore, but many good Catholic Examinations of Conscience used to refer to a “fear of Hell” as an acceptable, albeit imperfect, means of contrition when confessing one’s sins. Perhaps it’s our modern desensitization to the reality of Hell and the demonic, or the failure of Church leadership to adequately…
Exactly 750 years ago on this date—December 6, 1273—Friar Thomas Aquinas received his supreme mystical experience that led to what Josef Pieper called “the silence of St. Thomas.” I maintain that more than coincidence unites this divine crowning of Thomas’s life with the devotional cultus of St. Nicholas, whose feast has always been celebrated in…
St. Nicholas, by Jaroslav Čermák (1831-1878). / Credit: Galerie Art Praha via Wikimedia (Public Domain) Vatican City, Dec 6, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). St. Nicholas, whose feast day is celebrated on Dec. 6, is well known as possibly the real-life inspiration for the beloved Christmas character of Santa Claus. Not a lot is known…
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