What are good alternative sites to NewAdvent.com?

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What are some good collections of Catholic blogs, news, articles and etc. – besides NewAdvent.com?

I’m becoming more and more aware that NewAdvent is slanted a certain way – especially in its views on Pope Francis, its political views (more conservative), and so on.

Any recommendations?
 
You posted this exact same subject 24 days ago here…
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NewAdvent.com: Biased? Catholic News
For a long while, I have visited NewAdvent.com and have considered it a worthwhile collection of Catholic news and blog posts and so on. However, lately, I have noticed a trend with this site’s featured articles and links: They all seem to be slanted to a certain position on a given issue. Take Fr. James Martin. I do not want to have a debate regarding him here. Go elsewhere if you wish to. However, it is increasingly obvious and annoying that NewAdvent consistently links to articles that are e…
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Is your intention to simply bad mouth NewAdvent?
You had plenty of responses praising NewAdvent on your prior thread.
 
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catholic1seeks said:
What are some good collections of Catholic blogs, news, articles and etc. – besides NewAdvent.com?

I’m becoming more and more aware that NewAdvent is slanted a certain way – especially in its views on Pope Francis, its political views (more conservative), and so on.

Any recommendations?
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I do not like NewAdvent’s editorial selections either - they are not bridge builders.

These are some of the sources I read:

Catholic News Service and Crux for news about what’s happening in the Church.
America Magazine and Commonweal for commentary
National Catholic Reporter for an independent voice and anything by John Allen and Thomas Reese
The Tablet for a more global view and theological discussions
LA CIVILTÀ CATTOLICA for what is important to Pope Francis
 
Because it’s getting annoying. I mean look. Here’s another from today.

As regards this article, I do like EWTN. But I do agree about Raymond Arroyo being anti-Francis. I just don’t really understand this whole anti-Francis movement. It’s kind of scary. He is all about building bridges, reaching out to the fridges, and emphasizing simplicity of the Gospel message, poverty, and mercy. IDK about you, but kinda reminds me of, well, JESUS!..

 
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Thank you so much!

I do like these when I have visited them in the past.
 
People need to be aware when sites alleging to represent Catholic views are in reality biased and slanted and do not actually represent all of orthodox Catholicism.
 
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People need to be aware when sites alleging to represent Catholic views are in reality biased and slanted and do not actually represent all of orthodox Catholicism.
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Are you aware of a blogger known as Catholic in Brooklyn? Her site can be reached by clicking here.
 
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catholic1seeks:
People need to be aware when sites alleging to represent Catholic views are in reality biased and slanted and do not actually represent all of orthodox Catholicism.
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Are you aware of a blogger known as Catholic in Brooklyn? Her site can be reached by clicking here.
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Great blog! Thank you for the link. 👍
 
It is extremely amusing to me to see people post about EWTN being too critical of the Pope, and then advocate reading Commonweal, America Magazine and the National Catholic Reporter.🤣

Decades of criticism and dissent against the former Popes and Catholic teaching.

This is, of course, all for not. The Church, and Her timeless teachings will stand. The current wave of dissent, relativism and revisionism will be like chafe in the wind. It must be so frustrating to know all of this effort is for nothing.
 
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National Catholic Reporter for an independent voice and anything by John Allen and Thomas Reese
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National Catholic Reporter is almost vigorously anti Pope Francis. If anything should be avoided it is NCR!!
 
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Luke6_37:
National Catholic Reporter for an independent voice and anything by John Allen and Thomas Reese
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National Catholic Reporter is almost vigorously anti Pope Francis. If anything should be avoided it is NCR!!
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If you have been avoiding NCR, how can you know it is anti Pope Francis?

I just looked at their website and there is nothing in the headlines but support for Church teaching on immigration, guns and the economy. Maybe you should take another look too.

Here’s an article from back in September that was posted under the topic “Vatican” …


Here’s the latest entry under the blog they host called “The Francis Chronicles”:


It all looks pretty positive to me.
 
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It is extremely amusing to me to see people post about EWTN being too critical of the Pope, and then advocate reading Commonweal, America Magazine and the National Catholic Reporter.🤣

Decades of criticism and dissent against the former Popes and Catholic teaching.

This is, of course, all for not. The Church, and Her timeless teachings will stand. The current wave of dissent, relativism and revisionism will be like chafe in the wind. It must be so frustrating to know all of this effort is for nothing.
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Times change and they are not dissenting anymore. It’s the conservatives who now find themselves on the margins in opposition to Rome.

Be that as it may, I’m not frustrated at all. I know my church history well enough to understand how these things play out and how the same Truth always emerges in the end - whether it appears to be the same or not. Appearances can be deceiving.

Throughout history, the doctrines of the Church must be constantly adjusted to remain true to the Gospel, which is the only truly timeless teaching that exits or matters. Sometimes, this requires that changes are made to avoid ossification, which is just as bad as relativism. That is why Christ didn’t give us a book of instructions, but a living Magisterium guided by the Holy Spirit.
 
@Luke6_37

This goes along with your observation on NewAdvent and the alignment with certain Catholics with conservative Protestant Evangelicalism:

If you go to NewAdvent.com today, you will see at least 5 articles about Billy Graham. I know he died, and so there is some obvious reason to dedicate energy to his life. BUT I think this association with some Catholics and conservative Protestant Evangelicalism seem to also be correlated with the anti-Francis perspective, and a general skew on Catholicism in general (political, etc.)
 
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@Luke6_37

This goes along with your observation on NewAdvent and the alignment with certain Catholics with conservative Protestant Evangelicalism:

If you go to NewAdvent.com today, you will see at least 5 articles about Billy Graham. I know he died, and so there is some obvious reason to dedicate energy to his life. BUT I think this association with some Catholics and conservative Protestant Evangelicalism seem to also be correlated with the anti-Francis perspective, and a general skew on Catholicism in general (political, etc.)
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I see what you mean. All those stories on Billy Graham, but nothing on the Parkland shooting or its victims. I have nothing against Billy Graham, but to have nothing on the shooting is not Christian.

National Catholic Reporter has this story on the front page of their website:


I also noticed that nearly every wacky headline was posted as a topic on this forum. Now we know the source.
 
Oh yes if you wish to have your head firmly entrenched in the echo chamber of leftist propaganda. Look no further than NCR (reporter not register) register toes the Catholic line way to much. You will be better off at the other NCR where you can be spoon fed all the leftist tripe you can handle. Don’t forget the biased Commonweal for all things anti-catholic. And the master of Fake news The Huffpost and CNN are all in the same boat.
 
I_trust said:
You posted this exact same subject 24 days ago here…
NewAdvent.com: Biased?
Is your intention to simply bad mouth NewAdvent?
You had plenty of responses praising NewAdvent on your prior thread.
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Don’t worry about this, everyone sees straight through what they are trying to do. Both the OP and Luke play on this in a couple different threads. It’s funny the way they talk to each other it’s as if they are the same person. My theory is they are Russian Bots infiltrating CAF to upset the 3018 midterms.
 
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Times change and they are not dissenting anymore. It’s the conservatives who now find themselves on the margins in opposition to Rome.
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So they now agree with the Church on no contraception, no women’s ordination, no gay marriage.

Must have happened in the last month???
Or perhaps not.

If they have not recanted their previous positions then nothing has changed.

For an excellent summery of the open dissent displayed in the National “Catholic” Reporter read the link below…


It includes the wording of an official condemnation by the local Ordinary Bishop where the paper is published. The condemnation was reaffirmed in 2013.

Wording of the official condemnation below…
“It has given lengthy space to a blasphemous and heretical attack on the Vicar of Christ. It is difficult to see how well instructed writers who deliberately deny and ridicule dogmas of our Catholic faith can possibly escape the guilt of the crime defined in Canon 1325 on heresy, and how they can escape the penalties of automatic excommunication entailed thereby.

In fairness to our Catholic people, I hereby issue an official condemnation of the National Catholic Reporter. Furthermore, I send this communication to my brother bishops, and make known to the priests, religious and laity of the nation my views on the poisonous character of this publication.
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IN AS MUCH as the National Catholic Reporter does not reflect the teaching of the Church, but on the contrary, has openly and deliberately opposed this teaching. I ask the editors in all honesty to drop the term “Catholic” from their masthead. By retaining it they deceive their Catholic readers and do a great disservice to ecumenism by being responsible for the false irenicism of watering down Catholic teachings.”
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http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html
How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.

Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be “tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine”, seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.

We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An “adult” faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceipt from truth.
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from the future Benedict XVI’s homily (Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice) to the College of Cardinals, April 18, 2005
 
Sounds to me like Pope Francis and National Catholic Reporter have something in common. The same folks who write hit pieces on Pope Francis also criticize NCR. I guess that means they are simpatico.
 
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