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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Francesca Pollio Fenton |J. Ziegler
Official trailer for ‘The Chosen: Last Supper’ teases key moments leading to Jesus’ death By Francesca Pollio Fenton for CNA “The Chosen: Last Supper,” which focuses on the events of Holy Week, will be released in theaters starting on March 28, 2025. / Credit: 5&2 StudiosCNA Staff, Feb 20, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The official trailer for Season 5 of “The Chosen: Last Supper” was released Feb.
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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | J. Ziegler |Carl Olson
Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune poses alongside many of the priests of the Diocese of Charleston at a recent ordination. The diocese has seen a recent surge in vocations. (Credit: The Catholic Miscellany/Doug Deas)2,980 men are preparing for priestly ordination as diocesan seminarians in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, according to data published in the most recent (2024) edition of The Official Catholic Directory.
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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Peter Laffin |J. Ziegler
Father Carlos Martins faces misdemeanor charge after church incident By Peter Laffin for CNA Ryan Bethea (left) and Father Carlos Martins (right), co-hosts of “The Exorcist Files” podcast. / Credit: The Exorcist FilesCNA Newsroom, Jan 24, 2025 / 19:40 pm (CNA).
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
brownpelicanla.com | J. Ziegler
By J. J. Ziegler, Catholic World Report, Jan. 12, 2025J. J. Ziegler, who holds degrees in classics and sacred theology, writes from North Carolina. Although Father Marko Rupnik’s According to the Spirit sheds little light on Pope Francis’s spiritual theology, it is both valuable and concerning as the written testament of a controversial priest whose influence has been significant in the life of the universal Church.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | J. Ziegler
Pope Francis greets then-Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik during a private audience at the Vatican in this Jan. 3, 2022, file photo. Rupnik, whose mosaics decorate chapels in the Vatican, all over Europe, in the United States and Australia, is under restricted ministry after being accused of abusing adult nuns in Slovenia. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)In 1975, Father Richard Ginder, a priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, published Binding with Briars.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | J. Ziegler
Fifteen new saints and sixteen new blesseds were honored in the two canonization ceremonies and eleven beatification ceremonies that took place in 2024. Then, a week before Christmas, sixteen Discalced Carmelite nuns were canonized through the relatively rare act of equivalent (equipollent) canonization.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Chilton Williamson |J. Ziegler
(Image: Warren Wong/Unsplash.com)The thesis of God: The Science, the Proofs: The Dawn of a Revolution (not yet available in English translation) is summarized, simply and directly, on pages 507-508 by the Australian-British physicist Paul Davies:The temptation to believe that the universe is the product of a sort of design, a manifestation of a subtle mathematical-aesthetic arbitration, is overwhelming.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Jonah McKeown |J. Ziegler
His book is a look at how many Americans – in rural and urban communities across the country- live. Chris got to know people who often lack a voice in American public life, and his work aims to give them a voice, and a face. He talked with CNA about his book, his faith, and “Back Row America.”Chris, what is “Back Row America?”“Back Row America” describes, in my simple framework, American communities that don’t necessarily define themselves by their resumes or their education.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | J. Ziegler |Dorothy Cummings McLean
Left: A rendering of Christian refugees during the 1860 strife between Druze and Maronites in Lebanon; right: Photo of the destruction of the Christian Quarter in Damascus in 1860. (Images: Wikipedia)In approving the canonization of the Damascus martyrs, who were beatified in 1926, Pope Francis acceded to petitions from the Order of Friars Minor and the Holy Synod of Maronite Bishops.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Jonah McKeown |J. Ziegler
Families on pilgrimage: Catholics of all ages join Eucharistic processions in St. Louis By Jonah McKeown for CNA Families joined the procession as the Eucharist left the Shrine of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, headed for St. Peter Parish. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNASt. Louis, Mo., Jul 9, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA).
