Theology

Cardinal unveils major Vatican conference on priesthood slated for 2022

Apr 12, 2021

Increasing vocations to the priesthood, improving the way laypeople and priests work together and ensuring that service, not power, motivates the request for ordination are all possible outcomes of a major symposium being planned by the Vatican in February 2022.

The Rose family of "Schitt's Creek" (from left): Catherine O'Hara as Moira, Annie Murphy as Alexis, Eugene Levy as Johnny, and Daniel Levy as David (Newscom/Album/CBS/Not A Real Company)

Theology can learn a lot from 'Schitt's Creek'

by Karen Eifler

Apr 10, 2021

Television review: "Schitt's Creek," a comedy that has you alternately laughing and crying, shows how the suffering we endure can become pathway into empathy and outreach to another human being who suffers.

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Column | Distinctly Catholic

Links: Catholic social teaching origins, voting laws, corporate taxes

by Michael Sean Winters

Apr 8, 2021

Distinctly Catholic: Msgr. John Strynkowski on where Catholic social teaching comes from; Supreme Court predictability; global minimum corporate tax proposal

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Bishops recall Fr. Hans Küng as theologian who loved Catholic Church

by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Apr 7, 2021

German and Swiss bishops who knew and worked with Fr. Hans Küng described him as a man who loved the Catholic Church, even though the theologian sometimes went beyond the limits of Catholic doctrine.

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Cardinal unveils major Vatican conference on priesthood slated for 2022

Theology can learn a lot from 'Schitt's Creek'

Links: Catholic social teaching origins, voting laws, corporate taxes

Bishops recall Fr. Hans Küng as theologian who loved Catholic Church

Hans Küng, celebrated and controversial Swiss theologian, has died

Bishops criticize Vatican's ban on blessing same-sex couples

Honor the 'mothers' of early Christianity during Women's History Month

Pope Francis' Mass in Iraq could have followed older rite

Third Sunday of Lent: Respect for God's dwelling

Feeling weary and brokenhearted this Lent? Read this book on suffering

Jesus asks nothing less than to give our whole selves — our best selves

Pope Francis and his 'secular encyclical' on sport

Australian bishops release working document for October Plenary Council

First Sunday of Lent: Truly classic, ever new

Word change in missal doxology takes effect

Women's voices necessary for genuine discernment at synods

Opposition to Francis rooted in opposition to Vatican II

Biography explores 'subversive' Christianity of novelist Dorothy Sayers

Cardinal Ladaria: Vatican doctrinal office is 'no longer the Inquisition'

Love in a time of insurrection: St. Augustine on the unity of the American people

'Ordain women priests' billboard campaign expands to New Orleans

Massimo Faggioli's book on Biden and Catholicism explains our critical moment

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Mind-blowing metanoia

'Tornado God' takes on relationship between divinity, nature, humanity

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