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1 week ago | 
us2.campaign-archive.com | Amy Welborn |Larry Chapp |Charles Russo |Conor Dugan
My unplanned week in Rome for a papal election By Amy Welborn on May 08, 2025 07:32 pmA week ago today, I wasn’t even thinking about going to Rome. Yes, Pope Francis had died, and yes, a conclave was coming.
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1 week ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Amy Welborn |Carl Olson
(Images courtesy of the author.)A week ago today, I wasn’t even thinking about going to Rome. Yes, Pope Francis had died, and yes, a conclave was coming. But I had things to do, and I told myself, especially after the stress of this past papacy, that I didn’t care, anyway. I was driving a car from Birmingham, Alabama, to parts way out West, bequeathing that car to one of my offspring, so there was that.
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2 weeks ago | 
brownpelicanla.com | Amy Welborn
One more time, we are invited to think about “humility,” The question raised often during this most recent papacy has been: What does it mean to be “humble?” From the old Catholic Encyclopedia: The virtue of humility may be defined: “A quality by which a person considering his own defects has a lowly opinion of himself and willingly submits himself to God and to others for God’s sake.” St. Bernard defines it: “A virtue by which a man knowing himself as he truly is, abases himself.” These...
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2 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Amy Welborn |Leroy Huizenga
Hundreds of thousands of mourners attend the funeral of Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Square, Saturday, April 26, 2025.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Barron |Peter Laffin |Amy Welborn
Recently, the diary of a young North Korean soldier killed in Ukraine came to light. What attracted most commentary was the revelation that he and his unfortunate colleagues were being used, essentially, as bait for the deadly drones that hover over the battlefields of that beleaguered country. What I found even more desperately sad, however, was a more personal truth that was laid bare in the pages of that diary.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Amy Welborn |Scott Hahn
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order billed as “defending women from gender ideology extremism,” one that the White House says restores “biological truth to the federal government.”Trump, who centered the transgender issue during much of his 2024 presidential campaign, signed the order on Monday, the first day of his return to the U.S. presidency.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Junno Arocho Esteves |Amy Welborn |Scott Hahn
The controversial lay movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae was forced to confirm news that it was suppressed by Pope Francis after two of its members leaked the news to a Catholic news outlet. In a statement released Jan.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Amy Welborn |Scott Hahn
Waugh, Greene, Mauriac, Tolkien, O’Connor. You know them — the heart of the 20th century Catholic literary canon. Less familiar, especially to American readers, but deserving of his own spot, is the British writer David Lodge, who died on New Year’s Day at the age of 89. David Lodge wrote novels, essays, plays and teleplays. He also enjoyed a long academic career.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Amy Welborn
Pope Francis to give monthly bonus to Vatican City employees with 3 or more children By Hannah Brockhaus for CNA Pope Francis blesses a baby during the Saturday Jubilee audience in the Vatican’s audience hall, Jan. 11, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Jan 16, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA).
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Amy Welborn
Those interested in liturgical matters are sometimes accused of being inappropriately interested in externals when they should be out doing some works of mercy. Well, probably, since we all fall short on that score. (And guess what? I’m annoyed at myself for deciding to write about this kind of thing—again…)The accusation implies that “conservatives” are most guilty on that score, while anyone involved in liturgy for more than five minutes suspects that liturgical “progressives” are just as guilty.
