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Military Archdiocese faces uphill battle to serve troops

The Archdiocese for the Military Services is charged with pastoral care of Catholics in the military, in all five branches, their dependents, any Catholic who is a patient or a resident on a facility governed by the Department of Veteran Affairs, and any U.S. Catholic who works for the Federal Government outside the United States. It is estimated 1.8 million Catholics are under its pastoral care, but it only has 208 priests currently serving.

CL head sketches a Christianity beyond the culture wars

Father Julián Carrón, leader of the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation, is in favor of de-emphasizing the wars of culture, not because the Church’s traditional positions are wrong, but because starting with ethics was always the wrong way to present Christianity to the world.

‘If you don’t think Francis is the cure, you don’t grasp the disease,’ CL head says
- Interviews
- June 21, 2017
Although some Catholics, especially the more conservative sort, often find Pope Francis a bit of a shock to the system, the leader of the Church’s influential Communion and Liberation movement says that if you don’t think this pontiff is the cure, then you don’t understand the nature of the disease we’re facing in a post-modern, secular world.
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Bishop says secular Danes like Francis enough to ‘forgive him’ for being Catholic
- Global Church, Interviews
- June 17, 2017
Denmark, like other Nordic countries, is considered to be one of the most thoroughly secular cultures on earth, which means that traditional Catholic teaching on issues such as abortion, women priests and gay marriage often generates reactions ranging from incomprehension to hostility. Such is Pope Francis’s popularity, however, that Bishop Czeslaw Kozon says most Danes “forgive him” for upholding those positions.
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Faith, fatherhood, and fiction: Exploring Myles Connolly and Dan England
- Interviews
- June 17, 2017
Catholic author Myles Connolly (1897-1964) thought that fatherhood could be a path to holiness. His daughter, in a preface to a new edition of his 1951 novel ‘Dan England and the Noonday Devil,’ said a “father is called upon to model heroic love for his family.”
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