“You keep using that word,” says Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya to Wallace Shawn’s hapless Vizzini in Rob Reiner’s 1987 adaptation of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride, “I do not think it means what you think […]
Bishop Luc Van Looy, left, with Archbishop Augustine Kasujja in 2017. / Carolus via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0).
London, England, Jun 16, 2022 / 10:21 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has accepted a Belgian bishop’s request not to be made a cardinal at a consi… […]
St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio). / Public Domain.
Rome Newsroom, Jun 16, 2022 / 09:36 am (CNA).
On this day 20 years ago, more than 300,000 people crowded into St. Peter’s Square as Pope John Paul II canonized St. Pio of Pietrelcina, calling… […]
O most noble memorial; to be commemorated in the innermost heart, firmly bound in the soul, diligently kept in the depth of the heart, and recalled by earnest meditation and celebration. – Pope Urban IV, […]
The 2018 World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Rome Newsroom, Jun 16, 2022 / 08:30 am (CNA).
The Vatican is gearing up for the World Meeting of Families 2022, which will draw around 2,000 Catholic families to the It… […]
Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. / Nickolay Vinokurov via www.shutterstock.com.
London, England, Jun 16, 2022 / 06:20 am (CNA).
The U.K. government announced on Thursday that it is imposing sanctions on the head of the Russian O… […]
The Vatican flag. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA.
Vatican City, Jun 16, 2022 / 04:11 am (CNA).
Catholics in the United States made the largest contribution to the Vatican’s Peter’s Pence fund in 2021, with a donation of $13 million, representing almost 3… […]
Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica on the Solemnity of Pentecost, June 5, 2022. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Jun 16, 2022 / 03:40 am (CNA).
The curial revolution seems to be on pause — though it is not clear for how long. After the new Vati… […]
The late Sir Roger Scruton once wrote about the “religious imposter” Tartuffe, an archetypal character from a play by the seventeenth-century French comedic playwright Molière. “Tartuffe is not simply a hypocrite,” Scruton said, “who pretends […]
Map of Nigeria. / Shutterstock
St. Louis, Mo., Jun 15, 2022 / 18:57 pm (CNA).
Note: You can view the map in a separate window by clicking here.On June 5, Pentecost Sunday, gunmen believed to be Islamic extremists associated with … […]
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