PHOENIX (EWTN News)—The Diocese of Phoenix announced its plans to adopt the updated norms for Communion, which will allow the chalice to be offered during Mass in only three instances or at the discretion of a parish priest.

“The new norms will promote unity in the celebration of the Eucharist all around the world,” the diocese said in a Sept. 21 statement.

In June of this year, the third edition of the General Instruction on the Roman Missal was released, which reduced the number of times — 14 down to 3 — when the chalice could be offered during Mass within the U.S. Church.

The updated ritual states that the chalice can be offered to the faithful during Holy Week’s chrism Mass, the...READ MORE

Michael Coren is a Canadian author and electronic journalist who delights in rocking the cultural boat, something which is, admittedly, very easy to do in Canada, where not rocking the boat is itself a cherished value.

Perhaps only in Canada, for example, would his statement of the obvious, that AIDS in North America is a disease of male homosexuals, be cited to illustrate his provocativeness.

Equally in your face is his latest book, Why Catholics Are Right.

Without apology, without qualification — and virtually without stopping to take a breath — Coren blasts blitzkrieg-like through the long, tiresome, and, apparently, mounting list of grievances against the Church.

It is thoroughly...READ MORE

Moneyball is an ugly name for such an exhilarating film. Indeed, it seems a misnomer, though the filmmakers were more or less stuck with it, since Michael Lewis’ explosive 2003 book of the same name, on which the film is based, made such an impact on the baseball world that the word has passed into sports jargon.

Lewis (who also wrote The Blind Side) apparently used the word to describe how an iconoclastic approach to player statistics allowed Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane to defy the market economics that give deep-pocket teams like the Yankees and Red Sox an intractable advantage over underfunded teams like the Oakland Athletics. Wouldn’t “moneyball” be a better term for...READ MORE

The Family’s Not-So-Secret Strength - Carolyn Moynihan, Crisis Magazine

Refocusing the Poverty Debate - Austin Ruse, The Catholic Thing

The Continuity of Centesimus Annus - Richard Aleman, The Distributist Review

Padre Pio’s Response to Persecution from within the Church - Dianne M. Korzeniewski OCDS, Te Deum Laudamus!

Bishop, Priest, & Deacon. . . What do these Words Mean? - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Padre Pio on Hell - Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

Mary Sees Us - Catholic Spiritual Direction

Dolphin Tale’s Positive Portrayal of Homeschoolers - Peggy Bowes, Integrated Catholic Life™

A Few Topical Thoughts on Capital Punishment - DarwinCatholic, The American...READ MORE

Can Neuroscience Disprove Free Will? - The Deeps of Time

Locke, Metaphysics, and the Challenge of America - Greg Forster, Public Discourse

He Had a Great Career - Randy Hain, Integrated Catholic Life™

Dignity in Diapers - Sarah Babbs, VirtuousPla.net

The Restoration - Dr. Piers Hugill, The Distributist Review

What Being a Cradle Catholic Means To Me & What it Doesn’t Mean - Marissa K. Nichols, Theology of Laundry

Why We Build Beautiful Churches: For the Sanctifying Work of God - Greg Haas, Gulf Coast Catholic

Ten Outward Signs of a Traditionalist Catholic - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Living Catholic in Kerala (India) - Dr. Jeff Mirus, CatholicCulture.org/On the Culture

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BERLIN — As the papal plane touched down Sept. 22, slightly ahead of schedule on a sunny and breezy autumn morning in Berlin, the atmosphere was a palpable mix of trepidation and eager anticipation.

The Pope’s first state visit to his increasingly secular homeland, the “country of the Reformation,” drew a good deal of controversy in the months preceding it. Would this nation, which has long struggled to understand the Catholic faith, welcome him with warmth and respect?

As if to show how much the Christian faith is being sidelined by the German people, one national newspaper listed the backgrounds of the key dignitaries welcoming him to Berlin: a divorced and remarried Catholic...READ MORE

LANSING, Mich. (EWTN News)—Paul Long, head of the Michigan Catholic Conference, is praising the Michigan Legislature for passing a bill to ban partial-birth abortion. He called the measure “the most commonsense policy a civilized society could enact.”

“There is no place in our state for those who seek to terminate the life of an unborn child partially delivered from his or her mother,” Long said on Sept. 21. “Today Michigan should stand proud in following the lead of dozens of other states and the federal government by prohibiting this most heinous and gruesome practice.”

One bill passed the Senate by a vote of 29-8, while the House passed its version by 75-33. The bills would allow...READ MORE

Hearing from a Pulpit Near You: Help the Poor & Jobless - John Norton, Our Sunday Visitor

The King’s Good Speaker - Andrew Haines, First Things/On the Square

Angelic Warfare & Muscular Catholicism - Rich Leonardi, Ten Reasons

B16 Wants a “Truly” Catholic Church, Not “More” - Jean-Marie Guénois, La Stampa

Cardinal Piacenza on Celibacy - Fr. Simon Henry, Offerimus Tibi Domine

First Tonsure, Minor Orders, & Eye Infections - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Sunday Mass at Beijing’s North Church - Anthony E. Clark PhD, Ignatius Insight

The Five Faces of Christ - Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

By Grace Alone: An Introduction to Catholic Theology - Brad Birzer, Catholic Vote

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