The Dispatch
Analysis: The USCCB ‘abortion debate,’ and what came after
Baltimore, Md., Nov 14, 2019 / 05:45 pm (CNA).- On Tuesday, 69 U.S. bishops voted against the inclusion of a paragraph in a letter they [...]
Catholicism in the Land of the Rising Sun (and declining population)
Features
When Pope Francis visits Japan this November 23-26, he will be received by a highly resilient Catholic community – one that endured centuries of violent persecution under anti-Christian leadership and, more recently, an atomic bomb [...]
Six lessons from the life and work of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Essay
Editor’s note: This homily was preached for the Mass during the day of professional development for the staff of the Catholic Schools Office of the Archdiocese of Detroit, November 13, 2019, the liturgical memorial of [...]
Features
‘I just wanted to be a priest’: Archbishop Gomez elected president of USCCB
Washington D.C., Nov 12, 2019 / 07:25 am (CNA).- When he became a priest four decades ago, Archbishop Jose Gomez did not expect that he would one day lead the largest archdiocese in the U.S., [...]
Essay
Freedom, Including Religious Freedom, Is Never Free
Editor’s note: The Religious Freedom Institute, which works by education and advocacy to achieve global acceptance of religious freedom as a basic human right, the cornerstone of a successful society, and a source of national [...]
Clark on China
Understanding the 2018 China-Vatican agreement a year later
It has been more than a year since the Sino-Vatican agreement signed on September 22, 2018, and the situation of China’s Catholics continues to attract media attention. In my long career of researching and publishing [...]
Features
A response to the NCReporter’s toxic attack on the Latin Mass
Zita Ballinger Fletcher’s recent National Catholic Reporter essay, titled “The Latin Mass becomes a cult of toxic tradition” is such an adolescent and amateurish a rant, abounding in so many grotesques about an unnamed “Latin [...]
Interview
“Every day has its own Annunciation”
In Night’s Bright Darkness, Sally Read chronicles how the Lord brought her from atheism to the fullness of the Catholic Church. Yet the conversion is just the beginning of a journey that affects countless around [...]
Features
Minnesota bishop kept admitted child abuser in ministry, did not investigate allegation of abuse
Crookston, Minn., Nov 5, 2019 / 02:05 pm (CNA).- Depositions of Crookston Bishop Michael Hoeppner were released today, in which the bishop admits that he did not properly address an allegation of sexual abuse of [...]
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Update (Sept. 11, 2019): A full CNA transcript of the in-flight papal press conference from Madagascar is now available. Almost six years ago, in October 2013, I wrote my first piece critical of Pope Francis—a [...] -
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BMC:
Less than half of 127 million is not the whole story. The 60 million left will be overwhelmingly beyond their…
Leslie:
"Is there anyone in the cosmos unfamiliar with the teaching of the Church relating to abortion?" Perhaps not; but there…
