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Catholic Association retweeted
Duty doesn’t drive fertility. Joy does.
Seeing childbearing as a moral obligation doesn’t predict kids. (China ranks high on that view & its fertility is under 1.)
But people who see kids as one of life’s greatest joys are 30% more likely to intend another child.
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Sydney in Australia is witnessing a growing revival of Catholic faith under Archbishop Anthony Fisher, a lawyer-turned-Dominican priest, with more than 450 people becoming Catholic this year. Last year, the annual Eucharistic procession led by Archbishop Fisher drew around 20,000 people, bearing witness to the strength of Catholic faith in Sydney.
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After three years leading EWTN News, Montse Alvarado has been handpicked by Pope Leo XIV to lead one of the Vatican’s most influential departments, becoming the first laywoman and youngest person ever appointed to the position.
I sat down with Montse to discuss her time at EWTN and her historic new role as Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication. @MontseEWTN @EWTNews
FROM TODAY'S CLIPS:
"Government Money, Secular Strings, Can a State Impose Its Views on Religious Schools? The Supreme Court Will Decide" by @@NDiament for @WSJ
"Catholic Bishops Pray with President Trump" by @TylerArnold18 for @EWTNews
"The Culture of Death is on the Ballot This November" by Dr. Kody W. Cooper for @WordOnFire
"Why OCIA Is Not a Class — and Why That Matters for Catholic Education" by R. Jared Staudt for @NCRegister
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THIS WEEK'S PODCAST: What a treat to talk with Fr. Thomas Joseph White this week, Rector Magnificus of the Angelicum in Rome, and co-founder of the Hillbilly Thomists. We talked about, among other things, their new album, Strange Land.
WATCH this clip where Fr. White talks with Ashley McGuire about how playing music is a restful welcome from his teaching and administrative duties.
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This week: Fr. Thomas Joseph White on the Hillbilly Thomists and how their bluegrass music is spreading the joy of the Gospel.
Plus, Annie Powell on her vision for Camp Wojtyla and helping young people encounter Christ through faith, friendship, and the outdoors.
Listen:
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FROM TODAY'S CLIPS:
"Why Colorado Catholics are Going to Court" by Lisa Sheley for @WSJFreeEx
"Pope Needs No Further Treatment for Lung Cancer, Doctors Say" by @EPovoledo for @nytimes
"Abdul El-Sayed, You’re No Jack Kennedy" by TCA Senior Fellow @AshMcG for @realDailyWire
"Pope Leo Names New Theologians to Vatican Advisory Body" by @EdwardPentin for @NCRegister
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Senior TCA Fellow Ashley McGuire on Abdul El-Sayed's false equivalency:
"El-Sayed’s campaign is decidedly not about what JFK faced in 1960. It’s about serious allegations that he refuses to face today."
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Catholic Association retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed says he's facing what JFK faced. @AshMcG of @CatholicAssoc says not even close: the questions are "not rooted in religious bigotry, as were biases faced by JFK, but rather in valid concerns about… potential family ties to terrorism."
Catholic Association retweeted
Gospel of the Day (Luke 12,49-53)
Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
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Catholic students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign wrote out the entire Gospel of John on the campus quad as a way to evangelize the university community.
FROM TODAY'S CLIPS:
George Weigel of @EPPCdc on "AI and Evangelization" for @NCRegister
"Pope Leo Affirms the ‘Unbreakable Oneness’ of Marriage at First General Audience Post-Surgery" by @VictoriaCardiel for @EWTNews
"What are French Bishops Saying About the Riots?" by @LukeCoppen for @PillarCatholic
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George Weigel of @EPPCdc:
"Permit me to suggest, however, that the Church’s primary and most urgent task in confronting AI is evangelization: doing everything we can to persuade those developing AI at breakneck speed that we are creatures of a Creator, not bipedal algorithms with data-processing capacities to be maximized."
AI and Evangelization | National Catholic Register ncregister.com/commentaries/…
Catholic Association retweeted
“The history of the world without saints would be immeasurably poorer; that is, less human.”
In his first private audience since undergoing lung surgery, Pope Leo XIV met with participants of the Vatican’s “Holiness in History” conference on Wednesday, emphasizing the importance of studying the lives of saints with historical rigor and understanding them within the context of their time.
The Holy Father highlighted how the saints offer the faithful examples of holiness, spiritual guides, and intercessors who help the Church face today’s challenges and recognize new opportunities.
Their witness, he said, continues to inspire the People of God in our own times.
Discover more at ewtnvatican.com
This week's show: We had a very sobering conversation with Bloomberg writer Abby McCloskey @McCloskeyAbby on how AI is affecting children:
"AI is not created to be your average, semi-annoying and disinterested person.
AI is created to be an ego-stroking, quick to respond, friction-free, basically the way no person actually is or maybe even should be.
As a result, you start imagining as a child that this is what a normal human interaction is."
