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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Heather King |Scott Hahn |Mike Aquilina
“Let’s make Catholicism weird again,” is the cri du jour (cry of the day) of today’s “influencer” crowd. Again? When has it not been weird? For starters, we have a Savior who speaks in parables, who commands us to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and who then hangs suffering and silent, nailed to the cross. Can anyone possibly imagine Jesus trying to “curate an image,” or taking a selfie, or impugning his integrity trying to be popular or “trending” or cool?
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Mike Aquilina |Msgr. Richard Antall
Pope Francis' condition showed "further slight improvement" in the previous 24 hours, the Vatican said in its evening medical bulletin Feb. 26. The "mild renal insufficiency" previously noted in the pope's condition "has receded," the bulletin said, and the results of a CT scan performed Feb. 25 showed a "normal evolution" of his pulmonary inflammation.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Aquilina |Msgr. Richard Antall |Scott Hahn
To die for marriage is to die for Jesus. Christian Marriage — the faithful, exclusive lifelong bond between one man and one woman — is essential to the Gospel (see Matthew 5:32, 19:3–9). That is the truth behind Pope Francis’ decree of Jan. 27 proclaiming that five Franciscan friars who died in 1597 were killed in odium fidei — in the hatred of the faith. The five martyrs were Spanish missionaries to the New World, serving among the native Guale people in territory that is now the state of Georgia.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros |Natalie Romano |Mike Aquilina
By donating to the U.S. bishops' national Collection for the Church in Latin America, U.S. Catholics can support the church's mission in countries affected by poverty, political instability and natural disasters. Most dioceses will take this offering up in their parishes at Masses the weekend of Jan. 25-26, though some have different dates. The online giving site #iGiveCatholicTogether also accepts funds for the collection.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros |Natalie Romano |Mike Aquilina
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and named as his successor Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of Austin, Texas. Cardinal DiNardo has headed the Texas archdiocese since 2006, and a year later Pope Benedict XVI elevated him to the College of Cardinals. On May 23, 2024, he turned 75, the age at which canon law requires bishops to submit their resignation to the pope. The cardinal is a former president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |Theresa Cisneros |Natalie Romano |Mike Aquilina
At last year’s OneLife LA event, it rained so much that attendees were thoroughly soaked. At this year’s event, participants prayed for even a few drops to fall — anything to help combat the still-burning wildfires that had ripped through so much of Southern California. The specter of the lingering wildfires hung in the air as thousands gathered at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Jan. 18 for the 11th annual OneLife LA celebration and Requiem Mass for the Unborn.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Pablo Kay |Mike Aquilina |Ronald Rolheiser
A top Los Angeles judge called on lawyers to follow the footsteps of St. Thomas More while the archdiocese’s longtime legal counsel received a surprise award at the 2024 LA Red Mass on Oct. 23 . “Civility is the lawyer's version of charity” in the face of “misplaced adversarialism,” said Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl, the closing speaker at this year’s event.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Aquilina |Ronald Rolheiser |Pablo Kay
Among the items most common in images of the saints is a human skull — often placed upon the desk where the saint did his writing or other work. The motif is called a “memento mori,” which is Latin for “Remember you must die.”Since the first days of the Church, saints have given that advice and followed it themselves. Indeed, the month of November stands as a sort of memento mori in the Church’s calendar. It begins with two days recalling those who have died: All Saints and All Souls.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Ronald Rolheiser |Mike Aquilina |Pablo Kay
As a Lutheran priest, Dietrich Bonhoeffer would frequently offer this advice to a couple when he presided at their wedding: “It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”Wise words, but what exactly do they mean? Why can’t love sustain a marriage? What Bonhoeffer is highlighting is that it is naïve to think that feelings will sustain us in love and commitment over the long haul. They can’t, and they wouldn’t. But ritual can. How?
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Ronald Rolheiser |Mike Aquilina |Charles Camosy |Grazie Christie
Mysteries of St. Michael: Why history's great angel wins over so many believers Vol. 9 | No. 19 | September 20, 2024 On the cover: An icon of St. Michael the Archangel, circa 1550-1580, from the wooden church of St. Demetrius in Rovne, Slovakia. Many Catholics know the great archangel from a prayer sometimes said at Mass, or as a mythical figure associated with distant battles.
