Two former F.B.I. agents who went on to hold leadership roles in the church say a memo characterizing traditionalist Catholics as possible domestic threats is a troubling example of the bureau not following its own guidelines.
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How much do Americans know about the religions around them?
A survey by the Pew Research Center showed that Americans who have taken classes on world religions are more knowledgeable about members of other religions than those who have not.
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Why Eucharistic Presence Matters
The doctrine of Real Presence is important for many reasons, not least because it is through the presence of love itself that every Catholic may discover anew the art of self-giving love.
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A year in the life of a parish in transition
St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Conn., has been combined with other local parishes due to declining numbers of priests in the archdiocese. Parishioners responded over the course of a year to how the transition went.
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Preachers’ progress: America Media launches a new effort to deliver better homilies
The Catholic Church has produced preachers whose inspiring words resulted in immediate conversions. Even today, there are many excellent Catholic preachers, but this does not seem to be the norm.
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Catholic bishop on Ohio train disaster: ‘the Blessed Mother was watching over this community’
The Rev. David Misbrener welcomed a near-return to normal for residents of the village of East Palestine, Ohio, after “a really scary week.”
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10 Jesuit universities contributed to a new report on clergy sex abuse. Here’s what they found.
“To me, placing survivors’ stories first is about cultural transformation,” said the Rev. Gerard McGlone in regard to the report involving case studies of abuse cover-up in Catholic diocese.
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Confession: The Act of Contrition and words of absolution to get new translations starting this Lent
The experience of the sacrament of penance in the Roman rite will be slightly different this Lent, thanks to approved changes in the English translation set to take effect in a few weeks.
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Putting Vatican II into action: The life of Archbishop John Quinn
In his many articles for America over the years (his first appeared in 1968), Archbishop John Quinn tackled issues ranging from synodality to sex abuse to the priest shortage to abortion. Do those sound familiar today?
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Cardinal McElroy on ‘radical inclusion’ for L.G.B.T. people, women and others in the Catholic Church
We must examine the contradictions in a church of inclusion and shared belonging that have been identified by the voices of the people of God in our nation and discern in synodality a pathway for moving beyond them.