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Pope Francis has asked Bishop Egidio Miragoli, to carry out a visitation of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, which has oversight of the more than FATHER JAMES ALTMAN RAISES $640,000 TO FIGHT HIS BISHOP’S Father James Altman raises $640,000 to fight his bishop’s demand to resign. Father James Altman, pastor at St. James the Less Catholic Church in La Crosse, Wis., is seen in his YouTube video. In SHOULD CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TEACH CRITICAL RACE THEORY Since the tragic murder of George Floyd, leaders of many independent private schools across the country—including those at Jesuitsecondary
THE TRINITY REVEALS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE: LOVE A Reflection for Trinity Sunday. Reading: Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 Romans 8:14-17 Mark 28:16-20 To my mind, the Trinity should not bepreached
BORIS JOHNSON HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE MARRIED IN THE Boris Johnson had every right to be married in the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh May 31, 2021. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds pose together for a photo in the garden of 10 Downing Street UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
FATHER JAMES ALTMAN, WHO SAID CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS WOULD WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P. Callahan has asked him to READ: DAVID BROOKS’S MESSAGE TO THE BOSTON COLLEGE CLASS On Monday, May 24, the Class of 2021 graduated from Boston College. At the in-person ceremony, the graduates and their guests were addressed CHURCHES SHOULD MANDATE VACCINES FOR PEOPLE COMING BACK TO Churches should mandate vaccines for people coming back to Mass. Registered nurse Shyun Lin gives Alda Maxis, 70, the first dose of theCovid-19
WHO WILL JOE BIDEN SEND TO ROME? 8 TOP CONTENDERS FOR U.S 7. Stephen Schneck is the executive director of the Franciscan Action Network. Mr. Schneck holds degrees from Rockhurst University and the University of Notre Dame. Previously an associateAMERICA MAGAZINE
Pope Francis has asked Bishop Egidio Miragoli, to carry out a visitation of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, which has oversight of the more than FATHER JAMES ALTMAN RAISES $640,000 TO FIGHT HIS BISHOP’S Father James Altman raises $640,000 to fight his bishop’s demand to resign. Father James Altman, pastor at St. James the Less Catholic Church in La Crosse, Wis., is seen in his YouTube video. In SHOULD CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TEACH CRITICAL RACE THEORY Since the tragic murder of George Floyd, leaders of many independent private schools across the country—including those at Jesuitsecondary
THE TRINITY REVEALS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE: LOVE A Reflection for Trinity Sunday. Reading: Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 Romans 8:14-17 Mark 28:16-20 To my mind, the Trinity should not bepreached
BORIS JOHNSON HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE MARRIED IN THE Boris Johnson had every right to be married in the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh May 31, 2021. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds pose together for a photo in the garden of 10 Downing Street UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
FATHER JAMES ALTMAN, WHO SAID CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS WOULD WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P. Callahan has asked him to READ: DAVID BROOKS’S MESSAGE TO THE BOSTON COLLEGE CLASS On Monday, May 24, the Class of 2021 graduated from Boston College. At the in-person ceremony, the graduates and their guests were addressed WHO WILL JOE BIDEN SEND TO ROME? 8 TOP CONTENDERS FOR U.S 7. Stephen Schneck is the executive director of the Franciscan Action Network. Mr. Schneck holds degrees from Rockhurst University and the University of Notre Dame. Previously an associate CHURCHES SHOULD MANDATE VACCINES FOR PEOPLE COMING BACK TO Churches should mandate vaccines for people coming back to Mass. Registered nurse Shyun Lin gives Alda Maxis, 70, the first dose of theCovid-19
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Pope Francis has asked Bishop Egidio Miragoli, to carry out a visitation of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, which has oversight of the more than POPE FRANCIS REJECTS CARDINAL MARX’S OFFER OF RESIGNATION Pope Francis has rejected Cardinal Reinhard Marx’s offer of resignation and told him to continue as archbishop of Munich and Freising and dedicate himself to pastoral care and the renewal of WHY DO WHITE CATHOLICS HAVE SUCH A HIGH VACCINATION RATE About two-thirds of white U.S. Catholics are accepting of the Covid vaccine—a higher rate than any religious group other than Jews. But it is unclear whether the high vaccination rate is a WHERE ELSE WILL POPE FRANCIS TRAVEL IN 2021? Francis shocked the world when he traveled to Iraq earlier this year despite the ongoing pandemic. And the 84-year-old pope hopes to visit several more countries in the second half of 2021. THE POPE FRANCIS SUMMER READING LIST A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by ON BROADWAY ‘IN THE HEIGHTS’ BROKE BARRIERS AND TOOK 1 day ago · It would be something of a stretch to categorize Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” as juvenilia. It was a huge stage hit, won the Tony for Best Musical, tweaked Broadwayconventions
HOW (AND WHY) 8,000 MIGRANTS BREACHED THE SPANISH-MOROCCAN When some 8,000 people breached the border of Ceuta in just 48 hours last month, Juan Vivas, the mayor-president of this autonomous Spanish TÚPAC SHAKUR AT 50: REMEMBERING AN UNDERDOG PROPHET 1 day ago · Túpac Amaru was the last Incan monarch, hunted down and publicly executed by the Spanish in the presence of the Bishop of Cuzco. At his execution, as his former subjects cried out, thecaptured
EXPLAINER: WHAT DOES THE CHURCH MEAN WHEN IT SAYS A PRO 1 day ago · “Scandal” is a word often heard used in recent months by U.S. bishops regarding the best ways to provide pastoral care and communicate authentic church teaching to EXPLAINER: CARDINAL MARX WASN’T ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE OR Cardinal Reinhard Marx’s offer to resign as archbishop of Munich and Freising hit the church in Germany and Rome like an earthquake. And while survivors welcomed the move, not everyone agreesAMERICA MAGAZINE
Pope Francis has asked Bishop Egidio Miragoli, to carry out a visitation of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, which has oversight of the more than FATHER JAMES ALTMAN RAISES $640,000 TO FIGHT HIS BISHOP’S Father James Altman raises $640,000 to fight his bishop’s demand to resign. Father James Altman, pastor at St. James the Less Catholic Church in La Crosse, Wis., is seen in his YouTube video. In THE TRINITY REVEALS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE: LOVE A Reflection for Trinity Sunday. Reading: Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 Romans 8:14-17 Mark 28:16-20 To my mind, the Trinity should not bepreached
ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ RESPONDS TO UNPRECEDENTED LETTER FROM 67 After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the AMAZON’S ‘UNDERGROUND RAILROAD’ TEACHES THE BLACK HISTORY Drama is a laboratory of human nature, a realm where writers and actors can safely explore the further reaches of behavior and its implications, and audiences can experience the FATHER JAMES ALTMAN, WHO SAID CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS WOULD WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P. Callahan has asked him to THREE MYTHS AMERICANS BELIEVE ABOUT ABORTION The Supreme Court has put abortion back at the forefront of national debate, writes Charles C. Camosy, but public opinion on the issue may not be what you've been told it is. UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
CHURCHES SHOULD MANDATE VACCINES FOR PEOPLE COMING BACK TO Churches should mandate vaccines for people coming back to Mass. Registered nurse Shyun Lin gives Alda Maxis, 70, the first dose of theCovid-19
WHO WILL JOE BIDEN SEND TO ROME? 8 TOP CONTENDERS FOR U.S 7. Stephen Schneck is the executive director of the Franciscan Action Network. Mr. Schneck holds degrees from Rockhurst University and the University of Notre Dame. Previously an associateAMERICA MAGAZINE
Pope Francis has asked Bishop Egidio Miragoli, to carry out a visitation of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, which has oversight of the more than FATHER JAMES ALTMAN RAISES $640,000 TO FIGHT HIS BISHOP’S Father James Altman raises $640,000 to fight his bishop’s demand to resign. Father James Altman, pastor at St. James the Less Catholic Church in La Crosse, Wis., is seen in his YouTube video. In THE TRINITY REVEALS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE: LOVE A Reflection for Trinity Sunday. Reading: Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 Romans 8:14-17 Mark 28:16-20 To my mind, the Trinity should not bepreached
ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ RESPONDS TO UNPRECEDENTED LETTER FROM 67 After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the AMAZON’S ‘UNDERGROUND RAILROAD’ TEACHES THE BLACK HISTORY Drama is a laboratory of human nature, a realm where writers and actors can safely explore the further reaches of behavior and its implications, and audiences can experience the FATHER JAMES ALTMAN, WHO SAID CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS WOULD WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P. Callahan has asked him to THREE MYTHS AMERICANS BELIEVE ABOUT ABORTION The Supreme Court has put abortion back at the forefront of national debate, writes Charles C. Camosy, but public opinion on the issue may not be what you've been told it is. UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
CHURCHES SHOULD MANDATE VACCINES FOR PEOPLE COMING BACK TO Churches should mandate vaccines for people coming back to Mass. Registered nurse Shyun Lin gives Alda Maxis, 70, the first dose of theCovid-19
WHO WILL JOE BIDEN SEND TO ROME? 8 TOP CONTENDERS FOR U.S 7. Stephen Schneck is the executive director of the Franciscan Action Network. Mr. Schneck holds degrees from Rockhurst University and the University of Notre Dame. Previously an associate WHAT POPE FRANCIS HAS SAID ABOUT COVID-19 SINCE HIS ICONIC Pope Francis: “We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together, each of us in THE POPE FRANCIS SUMMER READING LIST A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF CANADA WANT AN APOLOGY FROM POPE 23 hours ago · The discovery of the unmarked graves of First Nations' children led to renewed calls for a papal apology in Canada to respond to the legacy of residential schools and revived questionsabout the
CHURCHES SHOULD MANDATE VACCINES FOR PEOPLE COMING BACK TO Churches should mandate vaccines for people coming back to Mass. Registered nurse Shyun Lin gives Alda Maxis, 70, the first dose of theCovid-19
POPE FRANCIS APPOINTS ARCHBISHOP ROCHE AS NEW PREFECT OF Pope Francis has appointed the English archbishop, Arthur Roche, 71, as the new prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, where he has been secretary THE TEMPTATION OF SPIRITUAL WHATABOUTISM 23 hours ago · Eric Clayton. Eric Clayton is the deputy director of communications for the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States and the author HOW (AND WHY) 8,000 MIGRANTS BREACHED THE SPANISH-MOROCCAN When some 8,000 people breached the border of Ceuta in just 48 hours last month, Juan Vivas, the mayor-president of this autonomous Spanish ARCHBISHOP GÄNSWEIN SAYS HE WAS “PAINED” BY FRANCIS Pope Francis talks with Archbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect of the papal household, during his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Jan. 15, 2020. ON BROADWAY ‘IN THE HEIGHTS’ BROKE BARRIERS AND TOOK 20 hours ago · It would be something of a stretch to categorize Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” as juvenilia. It was a huge stage hit, won the Tony for Best Musical, tweaked Broadwayconventions
THE CRUX OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF: WALTER MILLER JR.’S ‘A 19 hours ago · The Saint Thaddeus Monastery, also known as Kara Kilise, is an ancient Armenian monastery located in the mountains of Iran's West Azarbaijan Province.AMERICA MAGAZINE
A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by THE TRINITY REVEALS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE: LOVE The Trinity, as it is revealed to us in Christ, tells us that love itself is a foundational element of the universe. In its own way, as love, the Trinity corresponds to the first law of ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ RESPONDS TO UNPRECEDENTED LETTER FROM 67 After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the THE POPE FRANCIS SUMMER READING LIST A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by BORIS JOHNSON HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE MARRIED IN THE Boris Johnson had every right to be married in the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh May 31, 2021. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds pose together for a photo in the garden of 10 Downing Street UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
FATHER JAMES ALTMAN, WHO SAID CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS WOULD WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P. Callahan has asked him to READ: DAVID BROOKS’S MESSAGE TO THE BOSTON COLLEGE CLASS On Monday, May 24, the Class of 2021 graduated from Boston College. At the in-person ceremony, the graduates and their guests were addressed EXPLAINER: YOUR BISHOP SAID IT’S TIME TO COME BACK TO Whenever dioceses choose to lift dispensations, like with other difficult pandemic-related decisions, individual believers will have to decide for themselves ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE IN NEW PASTORAL LETTER: THOSE WHO A pastoral letter issued May 1 by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone focuses on the unborn, Communion and Catholics in publiclife.
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A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by THE TRINITY REVEALS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE: LOVE The Trinity, as it is revealed to us in Christ, tells us that love itself is a foundational element of the universe. In its own way, as love, the Trinity corresponds to the first law of ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ RESPONDS TO UNPRECEDENTED LETTER FROM 67 After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the THE POPE FRANCIS SUMMER READING LIST A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by BORIS JOHNSON HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE MARRIED IN THE Boris Johnson had every right to be married in the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh May 31, 2021. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds pose together for a photo in the garden of 10 Downing Street UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
FATHER JAMES ALTMAN, WHO SAID CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS WOULD WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P. Callahan has asked him to READ: DAVID BROOKS’S MESSAGE TO THE BOSTON COLLEGE CLASS On Monday, May 24, the Class of 2021 graduated from Boston College. At the in-person ceremony, the graduates and their guests were addressed EXPLAINER: YOUR BISHOP SAID IT’S TIME TO COME BACK TO Whenever dioceses choose to lift dispensations, like with other difficult pandemic-related decisions, individual believers will have to decide for themselves ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE IN NEW PASTORAL LETTER: THOSE WHO A pastoral letter issued May 1 by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone focuses on the unborn, Communion and Catholics in publiclife.
SUBSCRIBE | AMERICA MAGAZINE As a frequent reader of our website, you know how important America’s voice is in the conversation about the church and the world.We can't do it without you—America Media relies on generous HOW (AND WHY) 8,000 MIGRANTS BREACHED THE SPANISH-MOROCCAN 15 hours ago · When some 8,000 people breached the border of Ceuta in just 48 hours last month, Juan Vivas, the mayor-president of thisautonomous Spanish
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EXPLAINER: CARDINAL MARX WASN’T ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE OR 17 hours ago · Cardinal Reinhard Marx’s offer to resign as archbishop of Munich and Freising hit the church in Germany and Rome like an earthquake. And while THE U.S. BISHOPS SHOULD STOP SINGLING OUT ABORTION AS THE In the aftermath of both the 2020 presidential election and on the occasion of the June 2021 meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, we hope the U.S.C.C.B. takes time to POPE FRANCIS CALLS FOR ABANDONMENT OF COLONIAL MENTALITY Pope Francis today expressed his “pain” at the shocking news coming from Canada of the discovery of the remains of 215 children who were students in the Kamloops Indian Residential School in SHOULD CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TEACH CRITICAL RACE THEORY Since the tragic murder of George Floyd, leaders of many independent private schools across the country—including those at Jesuitsecondary
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A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by THE TRINITY REVEALS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE: LOVE The Trinity, as it is revealed to us in Christ, tells us that love itself is a foundational element of the universe. In its own way, as love, the Trinity corresponds to the first law of ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ RESPONDS TO UNPRECEDENTED LETTER FROM 67 After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the THE POPE FRANCIS SUMMER READING LIST A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by BORIS JOHNSON HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE MARRIED IN THE Boris Johnson had every right to be married in the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh May 31, 2021. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds pose together for a photo in the garden of 10 Downing Street UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
FATHER JAMES ALTMAN, WHO SAID CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS WOULD WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P. Callahan has asked him to READ: DAVID BROOKS’S MESSAGE TO THE BOSTON COLLEGE CLASS On Monday, May 24, the Class of 2021 graduated from Boston College. At the in-person ceremony, the graduates and their guests were addressed EXPLAINER: YOUR BISHOP SAID IT’S TIME TO COME BACK TO Whenever dioceses choose to lift dispensations, like with other difficult pandemic-related decisions, individual believers will have to decide for themselves ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE IN NEW PASTORAL LETTER: THOSE WHO A pastoral letter issued May 1 by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone focuses on the unborn, Communion and Catholics in publiclife.
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A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by THE TRINITY REVEALS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE: LOVE The Trinity, as it is revealed to us in Christ, tells us that love itself is a foundational element of the universe. In its own way, as love, the Trinity corresponds to the first law of ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ RESPONDS TO UNPRECEDENTED LETTER FROM 67 After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the THE POPE FRANCIS SUMMER READING LIST A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by BORIS JOHNSON HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE MARRIED IN THE Boris Johnson had every right to be married in the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh May 31, 2021. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds pose together for a photo in the garden of 10 Downing Street UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
FATHER JAMES ALTMAN, WHO SAID CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS WOULD WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P. Callahan has asked him to READ: DAVID BROOKS’S MESSAGE TO THE BOSTON COLLEGE CLASS On Monday, May 24, the Class of 2021 graduated from Boston College. At the in-person ceremony, the graduates and their guests were addressed EXPLAINER: YOUR BISHOP SAID IT’S TIME TO COME BACK TO Whenever dioceses choose to lift dispensations, like with other difficult pandemic-related decisions, individual believers will have to decide for themselves ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE IN NEW PASTORAL LETTER: THOSE WHO A pastoral letter issued May 1 by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone focuses on the unborn, Communion and Catholics in publiclife.
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A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by THE TRINITY REVEALS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE: LOVE The Trinity, as it is revealed to us in Christ, tells us that love itself is a foundational element of the universe. In its own way, as love, the Trinity corresponds to the first law of THE POPE FRANCIS SUMMER READING LIST A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by CONTACT US | AMERICA MAGAZINESEE MORE ON AMERICAMAGAZINE.ORG BORIS JOHNSON HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE MARRIED IN THE Boris Johnson had every right to be married in the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh May 31, 2021. Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds pose together for a photo in the garden of 10 Downing Street ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ RESPONDS TO UNPRECEDENTED LETTER FROM 67 After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the READ: DAVID BROOKS’S MESSAGE TO THE BOSTON COLLEGE CLASS On Monday, May 24, the Class of 2021 graduated from Boston College. At the in-person ceremony, the graduates and their guests were addressed UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
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VALERIE SCHULTZ
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THE POPE FRANCIS SUMMER READING LIST A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by CONTACT US | AMERICA MAGAZINESEE MORE ON AMERICAMAGAZINE.ORG BORIS JOHNSON HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE MARRIED IN THE Here is an idea for a Catholic Church crisis communications workshop in the United Kingdom: Imagine being woken at 6am on Trinity Sunday by ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ RESPONDS TO UNPRECEDENTED LETTER FROM 67 After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the READ: DAVID BROOKS’S MESSAGE TO THE BOSTON COLLEGE CLASS On Monday, May 24, the Class of 2021 graduated from Boston College. At the in-person ceremony, the graduates and their guests were addressed UFOS ARE BACK IN THE NEWS—AND CATHOLICS ARE READY TO DEAL (RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we didat
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Amanda Martinez Beck February 25, 2020EATING DISORDER
It took me a long time to believe that God was not disappointed with my body. It took me even longer to learn that Ash Wednesday was not my yearly diet launch date, that Lent was not a time for me to give all my food-related desires to God and come out the other end a better person, slimmer and with more self-discipline. Unfortunately, Lent is the time of year where my Catholic faith threatens to derail my hard-fought healing—a years-long process of learning to accept my large body and to realign my relationship with food amid an eating disorder diagnosis. The whole “give up sugar and lose weight during Lent” impulse? That is the impulse of diet culture, and it is a problem when it surreptitiously slides into ourchurches unchecked.
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Diet culture is the miasma of social expectations that to be considered “good,” a body must be trim and healthy. It is a message that saturates the cultural fabric, and no matter where I go, I witness its demands—in commercials, in online interactions, in the harsh whisper of my inner critic—that my very large body is a disappointment to God and that I need to change it. I am not even safein church.
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It took me a long time to believe that God was not disappointed with my body. It took me even longer to learn that Ash Wednesday was not my yearly diet launch date. Tweet this I joined the Catholic Church as an adult, full of joy at finding a home after many years of searching for peace. The heaviness of Reformed theology had weighed me down, and the Catholic understanding of the incarnation, the sacraments and the goodness of the created world was a breath of fresh air for me. I am several years into my Catholic journey now, and the church is a refuge for me in almost every way. There is room for my big and bold personality here; I have saints, both women and men, who have blustered their way toward Jesus and leaned into holiness. There is room for my paradoxical desire for a robustly intellectual faith and a faith that is more easily understood by a child than a scholar. But here comes Lent, and words are thrown around like _obligatory_ and _fasting_ and _abstinence_, and the temptation to dive right back into my eating disorder, with its rules and regulations, returns with avengeance.
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“Eat this and not that,” “Let God fill the hunger instead of food,” “It’s not hard to cut out an entire food group for the sake of knowing God better”—these are the phrases that jumble about inside my head, and at Lent, the echo is so loud that I am afraid I might succumb again: to the food rules, to the earned love, to the allure of potential weight loss, to the chains of fear and control that I have worked so hard to break. Most days, I can stop myself from descending into the downward spiral. It is harder as Ash Wednesday approaches. “I will hear what the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people.” I recite the words of Psalm 85. Anxiety and fear are not God’s intentions for me. He has peace for me, especially when it comes to food. So why is Lent so hard?>
Lent is not the time for hating my body or ignoring it or making it suffer for things that I have done, no matter what the voice of my eating disorder says. Tweet this The mortification of the flesh is a good and hard thing, but what is even harder is to know that the “flesh” in need of killing is not this very large body I live in. The “flesh” that needs to die is not the skin I walk around in—no, that needs very much to live! I can’t live in a dualistic spirit-versus-flesh antagonism, because it is not the church’s teaching for me to declare one good and not the other. The “flesh” that must die is my unrestrained desire to putmyself first.
As Lent approaches, I have to remember the words that came to the Catechism from the Second Vatican Council: > “Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity. Through his very > bodily condition he sums up in himself the elements of the material > world. Through him they are thus brought to their highest perfection > and can raise their voice in praise freely given to the Creator. For > this reason man may not despise his bodily life. Rather he is > obliged to regard his body as good and to hold it in honor since God > has created it and will raise it up on the last day” (No. 364). Lent is not the time for hating my body or ignoring it or making it suffer for things that I have done, no matter what the voice of my eating disorder says as it tries to persuade me to stop eating sugar, just to please God and lose weight.>
God made our bodies for relationship, not thinness or ability. The cultural demand for us to be smaller steals our joy and our capacity to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Tweet this I need the church to speak the truth of Lent to me because the voices of my eating disorder and of diet culture tell me that losing weight and “getting healthy” are the most important things that I can do with my time, money and energy. They tell me that if I do these things and make myself physically smaller, I can love God and my neighborbetter.
The church urges me to the Scriptures for life-giving words. I read St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians,
where he tells me that giving up gluten or sugar has no benefit for my soul. I read the message that God gives to Isaiah, that fasting’s power is about bringing justice to the oppressed, not moving the number on my scale in thedownward direction.
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Instead of fat jokes during the homily or bulletin announcements for the parish weight loss program, can we grieve the fact that Lent is a great time for an eating disorder to parade as a spiritual discipline? Instead of proclaiming the gospel of a more disciplined body for the sake of some physical health fantasy, can we fling wide the doors of our hearts and our parishes to welcome those gripped by the oppressive physical standards of secular culture and say something like this? > _All who are weary of being “too much” and all who have only > ever wanted to make themselves smaller: Come to Jesus who gives us > food and wine that delights and satisfies. Eat until you are filled > to the brim, and take up as much space as you need. You do not > disappoint him; you don’t have to make yourself smaller here. Come > and be loved, in your today body. _ God made our bodies for relationship, not thinness or ability. The cultural demand for us to be smaller steals our joy and our capacity to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Let us ask God to make Lent about bringing freedom to the oppressed, not giving up an arbitrary nutrient our body either needs or enjoys or both. Could it be that the chains of injustice waiting to be broken for us and for our neighbors are the chains that bind us to the demands of diet culture? What would life look like if the 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday were neither about going on a new restrictive diet nor about letting ourselves go but rather about letting ourselves—and our neighbors—simply_ be_? To be just who we are, in our today bodies, not needing to be anything but who we are, echoing the confidence of God when he declared to Moses at the burning bush, “I am who I am!” I am not letting myself go; I am letting myself be. To be myself. That is it, no more and definitely no less.Advertisement
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