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April 12, 2019

The crisis is about more than a disintegration of moral theology

April 12, 2019

When Pope Benedict XVI renounced the Petrine office, he promised to retreat into a secluded – essentially monastic – life of prayer. He has, with rare exceptions, kept to that promise. His public interventions have been few, and have mostly regarded theological questions. With the publication of his essay on “The Church and the scandal

Cardinal Woelki: The Church cannot be bullied into changing her doctrine

April 12, 2019

“The Church cannot be bullied into changing her doctrine if change contradicts the spirit of the gospel,” Cardinal Woelki has said. In an article for Die Tagespost, which will likely be seen as a stern rebuttal to those prelates who suggest that dogma ought to be altered to reflect current social mores, the cardinal adds:

Benedict’s essay supports Francis’ call for ‘zero tolerance’

April 12, 2019

After the April 11 publication of a new essay by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, commentators are mostly discussing their perception of the politics surrounding the release, or Benedict’s assessment of the sexual revolution and its relationship to the crisis. But lost in that discussion is the immediate practical application of the document, which articulates a

Scientific photographs of Shroud of Turin published

April 12, 2019

A new website aims to make available to Catholics and researchers a collection of photographs of the Shroud of Turin by a scientific photographer who was part of a research project that spent more than one hundred hours conducting tests on the shroud. The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth 14 feet 5 inches

Our tribalism stops us acknowledging the truth

April 12, 2019

The Athenian Academy began with that Socratic insight that in order to see the Final End, we must purify our lives through a philosophical form of life. This produced some of the greatest intellectual achievements of humanity. Yet the Athenian Academy ended skeptically with dogged disputes in which men eschewed truth to partake of “probabilities.”

PICTURES: Rome’s ‘Holy Stairs’ uncovered for the first time in 300 years

April 12, 2019

The bare, white marble of Rome’s ‘Scala Sancta,’ which are believed to be the stairs trod by Christ on the day of his trial and death, are exposed and visible to pilgrims for the first time in almost 300 years. The stairs, encased in wood since the 1700s, will be uncovered for veneration from April

Morning Catholic must-reads: 12/04/19

April 12, 2019

Archbishop José Gómez will meet Vatican officials to discuss new measures to hold bishops accountable. The world’s bishops’ conferences are reviewing the new draft constitution of the Roman Curia. Postulator Nicola Gori has reported that Carlo Acutis’s body is incorrupt. Archbishop Charles Chaput, Ed Condon, Jason Horowitz, Steve Skojec and Michael Sean Winters reflect on