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This Week at Catholic World Report

4 weeks ago | us2.campaign-archive.com | Matthew Balan |Susan Ciancio |Ngala Killian Chimtom |David G. Bonagura

Entering Heaven on Earth is a beautiful education in both art and the Faith By Matthew Balan on Mar 28, 2025 03:46 am The famed St. John Cantius parish in Chicago is the founding site of the Catholic Art Institute—a non-profit that aims to promote “the essential need for beauty to elevate our senses and illuminate our souls.” Read in browser » Facts about the danger of Abortion Pill regimen: Planned Parenthood “agrees” By Susan Ciancio on Mar 27, 2025 07:00 pm As its use to kill preborn...
Can JD Vance deliver a commencement address at a Catholic university?

4 weeks ago | catholicworldreport.com | David G. Bonagura |Carl Olson

Vice president JD Vance speaks at the 2025 March for Life rally on January 24th in Washington, D.C. (Image: Screen shot / YouTube / EWTN)Vice President JD Vance is currently the rock star of the conservative Catholic world. His youth, style, upbringing, conversion, young family, and proximity to President Donald Trump have collided to make him the runaway favorite in a CPAC poll ranking the potential 2028 GOP presidential candidates.
This Week at Catholic World Report

2 months ago | us2.campaign-archive.com | David G. Bonagura |Andrew Petiprin |Ngala Killian Chimtom |George Weigel

Painful consequences prove the “right to privacy” is wrong By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Feb 20, 2025 08:00 pmThe “right to privacy,” invented by the Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut (which was argued in March 1965 and decided in June 1965) is a cleverly woven fig leaf for immorality. It transferred moral Read in browser » Friend of Francis: Pope’s health situation is ‘delicate’ but not cause for alarm By Catholic News Agency on Feb 20, 2025 03:45 pmJesuit Father Antonio Spadaro.
Time travel to Bethlehem?

Dec 26, 2024 | catholicworldreport.com | David G. Bonagura

“If you could travel back in time to witness Jesus’ birth or any event in His life, would you do it?” Two enterprising Catholics posed this question to me during Advent. “Yes” was my unequivocal answer. “Doesn’t that undermine faith?” one replied with a genuine and savvy curiosity.
A Eucharistic Advent. by David G Bonagura, Jr.

Dec 9, 2024 | brownpelicanla.com | David G. Bonagura

By David G Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing, Dec. 9, 2024David G. Bonagura Jr. an adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary and is the 2023-2024 Cardinal Newman Society Fellow for Eucharistic Education. He is the author of Steadfast in Faith: Catholicism and the Challenges of Secularism and Staying with the Catholic Church, and the translator of Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning. The Advent of Christ in the flesh, then, sends us back to the future Advent that we celebrated first.
A Eucharistic Advent

Dec 8, 2024 | thecatholicthing.org | David G. Bonagura

Advent curiously proceeds from the future to the past, from the arrival of Christ at the end of time to the arrival of the infant Christ millennia ago at Bethlehem. The bridge joining the two is St. John the Baptist’s message that still applies for us in the present: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 3:2)We hear the Baptist’s charge on the second Sunday of Advent but we rarely dwell on it. Bridges may be pretty to look at, but they are not destinations.
This Week at Catholic World Report

Nov 22, 2024 | us2.campaign-archive.com | David G. Bonagura |George Weigel |Carl Olson

Pro-dignity, life-affirming palliative care: An interview with Dr. Natalie King By CWR Staff on Nov 21, 2024 05:28 pmDr. Natalie King, with a medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine, is a Catholic palliative care physician who lives in Utah.
St. Perpetua’s Purgatory

Nov 21, 2024 | catholicworldreport.com | David G. Bonagura |Carl Olson

St. Perpetua’s PurgatoryThe sensus fidelium, keenly aware that the dead need the help of our prayers, has Purgatory right and the Reformers, departing from Tradition and from the Church, have it wrong. The martyrdom of Perpetua, Felicity (Felicitas), Revocatus, Saturninus and Secundulus, from the "Menologion of Basil II" (c. 1000 AD).
Memento Mortuorum

Nov 17, 2024 | thecatholicthing.org | David G. Bonagura

Rummaging through my desk last month, I uncovered a single sheet of white paper. A dozen names were written in black ink. I knew immediately what the sheet was for. Each November, my high school and college almae matres invite their alumni to submit names of deceased loved ones to be remembered at Masses in their chapels. This lost page was my attempt some years ago to list my cloud of witnesses who, for reasons I cannot recall, did not make it to the chapel.
This is pro-life’s Jim Crow moment

Nov 8, 2024 | catholicworldreport.com | David G. Bonagura |Carl Olson

This is pro-life’s Jim Crow momentPro-lifers now must learn the lessons of their forebearers in the Civil Rights Movement. March for Life participants and counter-protesters hold signs in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, in 2018. (CNS photo/Peter Lockley)It should have been a triumphal achievement. After nearly a century of dispute, rancor, and bloodshed, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in 1865.