A Letter to a Priest in Crisis
A number of years ago, my spiritual director, a priest, went on a leave of absence because of various troubles. He was considering leaving the priesthood. I wrote a heartfelt letter to offer my thoughts […]
A number of years ago, my spiritual director, a priest, went on a leave of absence because of various troubles. He was considering leaving the priesthood. I wrote a heartfelt letter to offer my thoughts […]
Our Lady of Fatima. / Joseph Ferrara Our Lady of Fatima in LA Archdiocese via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Mexico City, Mexico, Oct 13, 2021 / 08:33 am (CNA).
Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who witnessed the Marian apparitions at F… […]
Readings: • Gen 2:18-24 • Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 2:9-11 • Mk 10:2-16 “No human institution,” writes Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez in Male and Female He Created Them (Ignatius Press, 2003), “is […]
Many years ago, a play came out called “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” the point being that the life of such an athlete is unique and requires a certain style of personality and […]
Pope Francis’ general audience in the San Damaso Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace, June 9, 2021. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Jun 9, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged priests, bishops, and married couples to work in coope… […]
Pope Francis greets a married couple at a Wednesday General Audience. / Daniel Ibáñez
Vatican City, Jun 1, 2021 / 10:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has asked people to pray throughout June for young people preparing for the life-long journey of mar… […]
Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds in London, England, May 6, 2021. / Ilyas Tayfun Salci via Shutterstock.
London, England, May 31, 2021 / 05:20 am (CNA).
Church authorities said that “all necessary steps were taken, in both church and civil law,”… […]
Kath.net interview with canon lawyer Fr. Gero Weishaupt. By Michael Koder [Translated for CWR by Michael J. Miller and published by CWR with kind permission of Kath.net.] Cologne (kath.net, May 3, 2021) The rebellious reactions […]
Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in Rome June 28, 2018. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Vatican City, Apr 28, 2021 / 06:15 am (CNA).
The prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office stressed on Tue… […]
San Sebastian, Spain, Apr 19, 2021 / 17:01 pm (CNA). In response to a planned day of blessings for same-sex partners in Germany, the Bishop of San Sebastián on Wednesday called on Catholics to join […]
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