Archive for January 11, 2009

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Cincinnati native heeds call to priesthood in Erie diocese

Sometimes hearing God’s call to minister can be difficult to understand. Although Father Johnathan Schmolt’s family knew he had the... Read more

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Birth control pill inventor laments demographic ‘catastrophe’

The chemist who made a key discovery leading to the invention of the birth control pill has written a commentary... Read more

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Understanding Baptism makes for a life of constant thanks, Pope Benedict says

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, spoke about the Sacrament of Baptism. Stressing... Read more

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Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024.

Columbia’s Catholic chaplain: Campus protests were pushed by ‘explicitly communist’ outsiders

President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit Father Greg Boyle on May 3, 2024.

Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit priest for work with youth

Martyred by the Nazis, Dutch St. Titus Brandsma was a journalist who gave his life so that the truths of the faith would not be silenced.

The prayer of a holy journalist before dying for the freedom of the Catholic press

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Chicago priest blesses same-sex ‘spouses,’ says Fiducia Supplicans allows it

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took possession of his titular church, St. Onuphrius, in Rome on May 1, 2024.

Cardinal Pizzaballa: Peace in Holy Land built on dialogue, action

The spiritual shepherd of the Church in Singapore is Cardinal William Goh, archbishop since early 2013 and a cardinal since 2022.

Cardinal Goh of Singapore: ‘Deep encounter with Jesus’ is key to passing on the faith

Oviedo Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes accused the government of focusing "in a biased and manipulative way on the problem of pedophilia as something attributable only to the Catholic Church."

Spanish archbishop slams government’s obsession with the Catholic Church

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Florida issues emergency rules to combat Biden abortion ‘misinformation’ 

Fertility rose at the end of the Depression and the end of World War II with the baby boom, to more than 3.5 births for every woman by 1960 — then plummeted immediately thereafter.

What is causing our fertility crisis? Catholic experts weigh in

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Trump polls ahead of Biden among Catholic voters with shift in Hispanic vote

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