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By Hannah Brockhaus, Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency - Pope Francis will be hospitalized for “some days” after being diagnosed with a respiratory infection, the Vatican said Wednesday... The 86-year-old Francis, who has spent most of his 10 years as pope in relatively good health, has dealt with several painful medical conditions over the last few years... (Yesterday) the Vatican announced that Pope Francis was expected to remain in a hospital in Rome for “some days” due to a respiratory infection. ...

By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., What We Need Now - August 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Veritatis Splendor, John Paul’s great encyclical on the “splendor of truth.” Written to encourage a renewal in Catholic moral theology and a return to its classical Catholic roots, Veritatis Splendor grounds itself in a few simple convictions. Briefly put: Truth exists, whether we like it or not. We don’t create truth; we find it, and we have no power to change it to our tastes.

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - This summer is the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s great encyclical, Veritatis Splendor (“The Splendor of Truth”).  Veritatis Splendor is an ongoing bone in the throat for a whole, unhappy cohort of today’s theologians and Church leaders.  Hostility to it was obvious at, but even well before, the 2015 synod.  So the new Substack’s inaugural article, by Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Philadelphia’s archbishop emeritus, is a great – and needed – reflection on the encyclical’s enduring importance.

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - Dozens of billboard posters defending the traditional Latin Mass appeared on the streets of Rome Tuesday as resistance grows to Pope Francis’ restrictions of the ancient liturgy... The posters, each carrying a quote from Benedict XVI, Pope St. John Paul II and Pope St. Pius V underscoring the historical importance and sacrality of the traditional liturgy, is the initiative of a group of Italian traditional Catholics called Pro Libertate Missalis.