In what has become something of a tradition, the archbishops of the two cities that will face off in next week’s Super Bowl have placed a wager on the game.
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Michael J. O’Loughlin is national correspondent at America and author of Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.
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Bishop Flores loves his dog—but he thinks Pope Francis is right about pets
The alleged papal puppy putdown raised the question: Is there a spiritual component to owning an animal?
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Communion war returns with dueling op-eds by Las Vegas bishop and pro-choice Catholic politician
Bishop George L. Thomas said he would not ask priests to police the Communion line but asked pro-choice politicians to voluntarily “refrain from the reception of Holy Communion while holding public office.”
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Group projects pro-choice messages on national basilica, the latest targeting of Catholic worship spaces over abortion
With tens of thousands of anti-abortion protesters gathered for the annual March for Life, Catholics for Choice projected pro-abortion messages on the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
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Cardinal Tobin: Refusing to deal with life’s complexity is a form of heresy.
Catholics uncomfortable with a synodal model of the church, Cardinal Tobin said, may be put off by the messiness dialogue often unearths. But, he said, refusing to live with tension can be a form of heresy.
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Archdiocese of Chicago is latest to implement rules regulating Latin Mass
The new policy instructs priests who currently celebrate a form of the Mass, sometimes called the Latin Mass or Tridentine Mass, which was supplanted with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, to request permission from the archbishop if they wish to continue using the extraordinary form.
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‘People are desperate’: How Catholic Charities is responding to the devastating tornadoes in Kentucky
“God is not in the devastation. He’s not in the destruction. He was not in the storm,” said the director of Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Owensboro, Ky. “But he’s in the response, and that’s where we are.”
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The truth we celebrate this Christmas
A Reflection for the Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent
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San Francisco archbishop’s reasons for not getting vaccinated don’t add up, public health experts say
Michael Rozier, S.J., said that the archbishop’s claim that his “good” immune system exempts him from needing a vaccine is simply out of touch with science.
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Catholic bishops in Iowa want their parishioners to get vaccinated. They’re launching a multimedia campaign to get it done.
The four dioceses in Iowa are partnering with Catholic Charities to launch a multimedia campaign aimed at convincing Catholics and other Iowans to get vaccinated to help slow the spread of Covid-19.