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angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Justin Mclellan |Msgr. Richard Antall |Greg Hardesty
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 18 upheld a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender. The question at issue in the case -- United States v. Skrmetti, the Biden administration's challenge to a law in Tennessee restricting gender transition treatments, including puberty blockers for minors -- was whether Tennessee's law, Senate Bill 1, violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
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angelusnews.com | Msgr. Richard Antall |Justin Mclellan |A Pastor’s Ponderings
“The Glacier Priest” (University of Notre Dame Press, $38), a biography of Father Bernard Hubbard, SJ, by Josh McMullen, paints a portrait of a creative and energetic personality whose ministry greatly affected the Church in the United States, but who remains largely unknown. A geology teacher at Santa Clara University, Hubbard was also a famous photographer, explorer, and lecturer who, using books, movies, journalism, radio, and television, reached millions through his talks about Alaska.
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angelusnews.com | Msgr. Richard Antall |Justin Mclellan
The military parade in the nation’s capital June 14 kicked off a series of events to mark America’s 250th anniversary, ending with next year’s grand celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The ideals expressed in the Declaration, not our military power, have always been what make America great.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Ronald Rolheiser |Mike Cisneros |Msgr. Richard Antall |Grazie Christie
Born for this mission: LA's Jubilee Year gift – 8 new priests Vol. 10 | No. 12 | June 13, 2025 On the cover: After years of formation and discernment, May 31 marked the start of a new adventure for eight men in LA: priesthood. On Page 10, associate editor Mike Cisneros captures the sights and sounds from their emotional ordination Mass.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Gina Christian |Cindy Wooden |Pablo Kay |Msgr. Richard Antall
Catholic groups are welcoming Pope Leo XIV -- the second pope from the Americas, and the first U.S.-born pontiff -- who was elected May 8, the second day of the papal conclave. Catholic Relief Services, the official humanitarian agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S., released a statement moments after Pope Leo had delivered his "Urbi et Orbi" blessing.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Gary Jansen |Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall
“Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers,” wrote St. Pope Paul VI in “Evangelii Nuntiandi” (“In Proclaiming the Gospel”). “And if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.”Each liturgical season offers a new lens through which to encounter God in the rhythms of daily life. Advent invites us to long for light. Christmas stirs hope and the promise of new beginnings.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall |Carol Glatz |Ad rem
Golf has been a Sunday tradition in my life for a long time. Our pop never held a golf club in his hand to the best of my recollection, but his priest brother, Father John, played once a week for most of his life. When our uncle made his regular Sunday dinner visits to our house, our dad would instruct one of us to find whatever golf tournament was on TV. We were his remote control in those days.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Robert Brennan |Carol Glatz |Msgr. Richard Antall
Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonizations of three blesseds: an Armenian Catholic archbishop martyred during the Armenian genocide, a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea killed during World War II and a Venezuelan religious sister who dedicated her life to education and the poor. The Vatican announced March 31 that the pope authorized the decrees March 28.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Carol Glatz |Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall
God is always merciful toward everyone, Pope Francis wrote. "He heals our wounds so that we can love each other as brothers and sisters," he said in the text he prepared for the midday Angelus prayer March 30. While the 88-year-old pope was back at the Vatican and had appeared briefly on the balcony of Rome's Gemelli hospital March 23, the Sunday he was discharged, to offer his blessing, he was following doctors' orders to rest and did not make a televised or public appearance.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall |Ad rem
We’re in the middle of Lent. We edge ever closer toward the most profound week on the liturgical calendar, capped by the holiest day of the year. There is a lot to think about and a lot to pray over in the remaining Lenten season. So, it is only natural that I’m thinking about a movie series with a computer-animated bear in a winter coat and red hat. I am not going to shoehorn the premise of the “Paddington” movies into a treatise on Christian imagery as it pertains to the passion of Our Lord.
