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   - ‘Capital punishment must end’: Catholic publications unite in rare joint editorial...
   - Read the full text of the joint editorial as it appears in the National Catholic Register...
   - Why the National Catholic Register is taking part in this unprecedented step...
   - C.S. Lewis and the death penalty...
   - Catholic media unite in opposition to the death penalty...
   - Patheos Catholic joins joint call to end capital punishment...
   - How serious is the sin of lust?
   - Ten years on, a big hand for Dan Brown...
   - Catholicism and the New Creation: The conversion story of Tyler Blanski...
   - Cardinal Morton, St. Thomas More, beer and ecclesiastical heraldry...
   - Parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux to be canonized in October...
   - Vatican PR man Fr. Thomas Rosica backs off threat to sue Vox Cantorisblog...
   - 7 adorable animals that are surprisingly violent...
   - 9 facts about computer security that experts wish you knew...
   - Which fast food fish sandwiches are worth eating?
   - Why atheists don't really exist...
   - From SNL to Eric Clapton, sometimes secular celebrities say surprising things...
   - 4 lessons from Downton Abbey's fifth season.....
   - NYTimes op-ed: Why our children don't think there are moral facts.....
   - G.K. Chesterton's poetry was something extraordinary. Even atheist Christopher Hitchens said so.....
   - Conservatives would be more effective if so many conservatives didn’t speak and write like jerks...
   - Why the devil hates the present moment...
   - Don't get distracted by the GMO food panic. The real biotech horror is lurking elsewhere.....
   - Lent is an annual reminder that God is God and you are not.....
   - Here are 3 reasons why I try to go to confession weekly.....

| ‘Capital punishment must end’: Catholic publications unite in rare joint editorial...Posted: Four U.S. Catholic publications with a broad range of audiences have come together in a joint editorial citing Church leaders in calling for an end to the death penalty in the United States. "Capital punishment must... |
| Read the full text of the joint editorial as it appears in the National Catholic Register...Posted: Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Glossip v. Gross, a case out of Oklahoma that challenges the most widely used lethal injection protocol as being cruel and unusual punishment. The court took up the... |
| Why the National Catholic Register is taking part in this unprecedented step...Posted: From the time of the publication of his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), Pope St. John Paul II urged Catholics to re-examine the use of the death penalty — teaching that its use today should be “very rare if not practically nonexistent.” His successors Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis consistently have taught the same... |
| C.S. Lewis and the death penalty...Posted: This morning, in an unprecedented step four Catholic national publications have issued a joint editorial. National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter, America Magazine and Our Sunday Visitor have all called for an end to the death penalty. You can read the editorial here. In an excellent essay called The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment Lewis enters the capital punishment debate with a deeper discussion of the principles of punishment... |
| Catholic media unite in opposition to the death penalty...Posted: ‘Capital Punishment Must End.’ That’s the bold headline in the National Catholic Register this morning. The Register, in a groundbreaking collaboration with three other Catholic journals, published a strong statement opposing capital punishment. The editorial boards of the Register, the National Catholic Reporter, Our Sunday Visitor and America joined in opposition to the death penalty... |
| Patheos Catholic joins joint call to end capital punishment...Posted: Individual bloggers within this channel may feel differently, and they are entitled to their opinions and to make their arguments, but editorially, Patheos Catholic hopes today’s effort by Catholic publications begins to move the United States away from a cultural idea the the taking of one unlovely human life can somehow make up for the loss of another... |
| How serious is the sin of lust?Posted: Man’s uniqueness among creation is fascinating. He lives in the world with animals, yet he shares in the ability of the angels to see and contemplate God. He can have his hands in the soil and his mind in heaven. Animals and angels cannot do that. For survival, man, like the animals but unlike the angels, has bodily urges – instincts that are self-preserving... |
| Ten years on, a big hand for Dan Brown...Posted: Is it really only 10 years since The DaVinci Code? The link with the painter, and what his art purportedly represented, was in theological terms to become, for some at least, akin to Darwin’s “missing link,” and as it turned out just as bogus. Nevertheless, after dominating the bestseller lists for two years, an article appeared in the New York Times analyzing the book’s phenomenal appeal that was just then beginning to wane... |
| Catholicism and the New Creation: The conversion story of Tyler Blanski...Posted: “This is not Middle Earth, this is not Middle Earth,” I kept telling myself. But how else could I make sense of the towering cathedrals, the Tradition and the Scriptures, the real evil to fight and the real good to defend? It was the spring of 2014. My wife, Brittany, and I were about to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church... |
| Cardinal Morton, St. Thomas More, beer and ecclesiastical heraldry...Posted: Although beer has always been a part of Catholic life in Europe since the Middle Ages, it is not associated directly with Jesus in nearly the same way as wine. This is because (1) Jesus’ first miracle at the wedding at Cana involved wine; (2) Jesus changed wine into his Most Precious Blood at the Last Supper; and as a result (3) only bread and wine are the necessary types of matter used at mass... |
| Parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux to be canonized in October...Posted: Last week it was informally announced to journalists that the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin, will be canonized this year in the same month as the synod on the family. "Thanks to God in October two spouses will be canonized: the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux," Angelo Amato Cardinal Amato said during a Feb... |
| Vatican PR man Fr. Thomas Rosica backs off threat to sue Vox Cantorisblog...Posted: Despite a frenzy in the conservative Catholic blogosphere, a high-profile priest who volunteers as an English-language assistant to the Vatican press office says he’s not planning to take legal action against a Canadian blogger who had criticized him, and considers the matter closed. The Rev. Thomas Rosica, also a Canadian, said Wednesday he never planned to sue the blogger... |
| 7 adorable animals that are surprisingly violent...Posted: They’re cute. They’re cuddly. They’re killers. |
| 9 facts about computer security that experts wish you knew...Posted: Every day, you hear about security flaws, viruses, and evil hacker gangs that could leave you destitute — or, worse, bring your country to its knees. But what's the truth about these digital dangers? We asked computer security experts to separate the myths from the facts. Here's what they said. |
| Which fast food fish sandwiches are worth eating?Posted: The tell tale signs of Lent: purple vestments, penance services, and fish sandwiches everywhere. This time of year, nearly every fast food chain has a featured fish sandwich. With so many choices, how are you to decide which are worthy of a Friday night meal? We did the dirty work of eating and reviewing the major fast food chains' offerings... |
| Why atheists don't really exist...Posted: Confirmation bias is the tendency to ascribe greater significance to information which supports our pre-existing theories and lesser significance to information which contradicts those theories. We often do this subconsciously. For example you get a new car, and suddenly you notice that type of car on the road with a much greater frequency than you had noticed before... |
| From SNL to Eric Clapton, sometimes secular celebrities say surprising things...Posted: Half of my life ago, all I wanted was to be on Saturday Night Live. While on vacation with my family, I spent my babysitting money on a coffee-table book about the first twenty years of SNL which I brought with me on the bus every single day of junior high. I looked at it so much that all the pages fell out as I committed each character and skit to memory... |
| 4 lessons from Downton Abbey's fifth season.....Posted: The finale of Downton Abbey definitely caused a pang in the Desmond house. Despite the improbable soap opera elements of the plot, the weekly ritual of watching the Downton household navigate domestic crises, react to larger developments and reveal flashes of virtue has stirred rich conversations every time. Most high-rated television dramas... |
| NYTimes op-ed: Why our children don't think there are moral facts.....Posted: What would you say if you found out that our public schools were teaching children that it is not true that it’s wrong to kill people for fun or cheat on tests? Would you be surprised? I was. As a philosopher, I already knew that many college-aged students don’t believe in moral facts. While there are no national surveys quantifying this phenomenon... |
| G.K. Chesterton's poetry was something extraordinary. Even atheist Christopher Hitchens said so.....Posted: In his otherwise disparaging review of Dr. Ian Ker’s G. K. Chesterton: A Biography, the late atheist critic Christopher Hitchens noted that he and Ker were in agreement “on the high quality of Chesterton’s poems.” Hitchens had many unkind comments about a whole host of Catholic writers but on the subject of Chesterton’s poetic works... |
| Conservatives would be more effective if so many conservatives didn’t speak and write like jerks...Posted: I have been at parties with affluent Catholics, all Republicans, standing around talking about children or football or some other comfortable subject, when one of the people around me would start talking about the failings of the poor. The judgments would be comprehensive and categorical. Heads would nod and affirmative noises would be made... |
| Why the devil hates the present moment...Posted: It is no use worrying about what “could be.” We don’t know the future and we don’t even know if we will enjoy the fruits of our labors. For all we know, today could be our last day on earth. That is why we must always strive to be in the present moment. We can’t push off holiness to a certain point in the future; we don’t know if we even have a future... |
| Don't get distracted by the GMO food panic. The real biotech horror is lurking elsewhere.....Posted: I will be honest. I am tired. I am angry. I am frustrated. This is likely an uncharacteristically emotional post because, after nearly a decade of writing about biotechnology, I am uncharacteristically horrified. The UK has officially approved the creation of embryos with three genetic parents, and babies created with this technique are likely to be born within the next year... |
| Lent is an annual reminder that God is God and you are not.....Posted: The death of Dr. Robert Susil makes no sense by any human calculus. He was a young man in terrific physical shape at the beginning of the very prime of life. He was a thoroughly converted disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a devoted husband and father. He was also a brilliant scientist and compassionate healer, one of the country’s foremost young cancer doctors... |
| Here are 3 reasons why I try to go to confession weekly.....Posted: As a priest and bishop, it is a blessing to participate in the sacrament of reconciliation. Whenever I hear a thorough, honest confession, I am moved by the humility of the penitent and the beauty of God’s mercy working to restore what has been broken. God cannot be outdone in generosity, so let us trust in his abundant mercy... |


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