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Watch: The computer technology used in making this new World War I film is astonishing...
Published: 20/10/2018'Lord Of the Rings' director Peter Jackson has seen footage of a mine explosion that his own grandfather was only a hundred yards away from on the Western Front at the time. He spoke about his new fil ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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Big family backlash: Twitter explodes with responses to French president’s words on fertility...
Published: 20/10/2018Wow, what a statement! And I’m not referring to French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent statement about fertility and family planning in Africa. I’m referring to the statement women are making in re ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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Trump administration to strengthen religious liberty rules on birth control, homosexuality...
Published: 20/10/2018The Trump administration is planning to double down on “religious liberty” protections that could affect birth control access and allow for LGBTQ employment discrimination. Planned rules would strengt ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org
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From regular parish to Amazing Parish: Pat Lencioni, John Martin and team are making it happen...
Published: 20/10/2018In theory all parishes are more or less equal. Yet inevitably in any city it is easy to find a parish (or a few) that seems to attract faithful from all over the place. What is it that draws people to ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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Archbishop Viganò responds to Cardinal Ouellet’s letter with new testimony...
Published: 20/10/2018Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issued a third testimony today, the feast of the North American Martyrs, which we publish in full below, with a link below it to Cardinal Ouellet's letter of Oct. 7. He b ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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Obama administration dodged state laws to get minors illegal abortions, court papers reveal...
Published: 20/10/2018Last week, a federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union had filed in 2016 challenging the government’s award of grants to the United States Conference of Cathol ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org
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‘Gosnell’ strikes nerve with moviegoers despite shoestring budget, lack of media attention...
Published: 20/10/2018It was a movie destined for failure — relying on crowdfunding for its shoestring budget, garnering little to no attention among liberal media outlets and opening in only 673 theaters around the countr ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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Will Pakistan execute a 53-year-old woman for being Christian? (WSJ paywall)...
Published: 20/10/2018Does Pakistan’s Supreme Court have the courage to free Asia Bibi, an illiterate 53-year-old Christian woman on death row since 2010 for “blasphemy,” while thousands of Islamic extremists across the co ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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Bitter news with roots 1,000 years old: Russian Orthodox Church cuts ties with Bartholomew...
Published: 20/10/2018Anyone who has studied the history of Orthodox Christianity knows the details of this story, as well as arguments about its signifigance. As the first Christian millennium was drawing to a close, some ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org
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‘I believe the Lord wants a change in the Church’: The Pope’s private dialogue with the Jesuits in the Baltics...
Published: 20/10/2018The pope enters the room of the Nunciature and greets the Jesuits one by one, starting with the provincial, Fr. Vidmantas Šimkūna. In all, 28 Jesuits are present: 22 from the province of Lithuania a ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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The Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish...
Published: 20/10/2018On our way to Sarajevo's Ashkenazi Synagogue for the Friday evening Shabbat (Sabbath) service, my friend Paula Goldman and I walked down cobblestone streets through the Baščaršija, the old Ottoman are ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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What if the perfect happiness of Heaven is the End?
Published: 20/10/2018When my son Athanasius was eight years old, his batting average for the baseball season was over .900. To be more specific for you baseball neophytes, he made a total of one out in an entire season of ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org
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Keep working for the Kingdom despite human failures...
Published: 20/10/2018My father had an expression: “Charlie, people disappoint.” It was his way of saying that even people we think irreproachable, godly, and saintly can let us down, either with sin or simply by being una ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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In the East there is a rupture between Kirill and Bartholomew — and the Pope sides more with Kirill...
Published: 20/10/2018On the military terrain, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues at low intensity. But on the religious terrain, the clash has reached its peak. On October 15, the patriarchate of Moscow “an ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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29th Sunday of Ordinary Time — His life as a ransom for many...
Published: 20/10/2018The First Reading for this Lord’s Day is personally very significant to me, because it caused me to be disturbed as a young man, and even contributed to a bout of depression I had. When I was in colle ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org
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Think professors are liberal? Try school administrators.....
Published: 20/10/2018I received a disconcerting email this year from a senior staff member in the Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement at Sarah Lawrence College, where I teach. The email was soliciting ideas from the ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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Trump aide ‘disagrees’ with Iraqi cardinal over U.S. help for Christians...
Published: 20/10/2018After an Iraqi cardinal said Tuesday that the U.S. government has “done nothing” to aid beleaguered Christians in his country, a Trump administration official on Wednesday insisted that “the U.S. is h ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org -
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Few errors have been condemned more often, more strongly, by more popes, for more serious reasons, than socialism...
Published: 20/10/2018Recently in America magazine, there appeared an article titled, “Yes, democratic socialism is compatible with Catholic social teaching.” While it may be exasperating to see pro-socialism columns like ... Read moreSource: feeds.newadvent.org
