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June 22, 2021

Cardinal clarifies exceptions to ban on private Masses in St. Peter’s Basilica

June 22, 2021

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, the new archpriest of the basilica, said June 22 that requests to celebrate, instead of concelebrate, early morning Masses at St. Peter’s by groups “with particular and legitimate needs” may be allowed.

Vatican Intervenes in Proposed ‘Anti-Homophobia’ Law in Italy

June 22, 2021

Local media have called the Vatican’s action “unprecedented” in the history of the relationship between the two states.

Outliving Myself: On Finding I Have Vascular Dementia

June 22, 2021

Russell E. Saltzman remembers a funeral for a parishioner in his days as a Lutheran pastor, "A nice fellow," he writes, "with a plain garden variety dementia, not Alzheimer's, not the sexy one everybody knows about." He says the fellow "shrank in upon himself, became less and less of himself, shriveling and his world with him." He would sit, quietly alone, as the end approached. "Where was his memory?" Russ wonders. "Where was he?"

Dorothy Sayers Criticizes Rerum Novarum

June 22, 2021

Describing her as “a distinguished Anglican writer,” the Catholic Herald asked the mystery novelist and playwright Dorothy Sayers to contribute to a forum on the fiftieth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum. A note at the end warned readers that the article had been taken over the telephone and might include “deviations from Miss

Catholic archbishop in Ukraine: ‘It is still springtime in our Church’

June 22, 2021

Lviv, Ukraine, Jun 21, 2021 / 07:00 am An archbishop has said that the Catholic Church in Ukraine is still enjoying a “springtime” despite rising secularization. Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki said that the Church was thriving amid secular currents, economic difficulties, and war in the east of the country. “It is still springtime in our Church