Catholic World Report
Catholic World Report

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email (Weekly Newsletter)
  • RSS
  • Home
  • Columns
    • Chapp’s Schtick
    • Ecclesia et Civitas
    • God’s First
    • God’s Two Books
    • The Past Present
  • Features
    • Analysis
    • Books
    • Editorial
    • Essay
    • Film & Music
    • History
    • Interview
    • News
    • Opinion
    • Special Report
  • The Dispatch
  • Topics
    • Pope Francis
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • Books
    • Canon Law
    • All Topics
  • About CWR
  • Advertise
  • Donate
News Briefs
  • [ August 11, 2026 ] Latin American bishops pray for Colombia, express solidarity, following powerful earthquake News Briefs
  • [ August 11, 2026 ] Court reconsiders First Amendment challenge to Michigan school’s transgender policies News Briefs
  • [ August 11, 2026 ] Church in Colombia prays and mobilizes to help those affected by major earthquake News Briefs
  • [ August 11, 2026 ] Pope chooses theme on AI and war for World Day of Peace 2027 News Briefs
  • [ August 11, 2026 ] Pope Leo XIV expresses sorrow for the victims of earthquake in Colombia News Briefs

Month: December 2023

No Picture
News Briefs

After military review, IDF again denies killing two women at Gaza Catholic church

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Injured parishioners receive Communion on the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 17, 2023, at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. / Credit: Father Gabriel Romanelli/Facebook

CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 12:22 pm (CNA).
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has again … […]

The Dispatch

Pope Francis to Roman Curia: ‘Rigid ideological positions’ prevent us from moving forward

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 40

Pope Francis gives his annual Christmas address to the cardinals who work in Vatican offices on Dec. 21, 2023, in the gilded Hall of Benediction at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 11:13 am (CNA).
Pope Francis … […]

The Dispatch

Save the Storks program in Maryville, TN, delivers life with 100th ultrasound van

December 20, 2023 Susan Ciancio 3

Christmas came a bit early this year for the Pregnancy Resource Center in Maryville, Tennessee. Just last week, the center took possession of a beautiful new mobile ultrasound van. It replaces the older van the […]

No Picture
News Briefs

Pope Francis urges humanitarian response to Darien migration tragedy

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

A migrant carries a baby in the Darien Province in Panama on Sept. 22, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have entered Panama through this jungle so far this year. / Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 /… […]

No Picture
News Briefs

Same-sex blessings: Sinners can be blessed but not their sin, Spanish bishop says

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of Valladolid

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, is focusing on the implications of pas… […]

The Dispatch

Bishops around the world are divided over Vatican’s same-sex blessing declaration  

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 21

null / Credit: lunamarina/Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA).
Catholic bishops around the world are deeply divided on a Vatican declaration that permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples:… […]

No Picture
News Briefs

Dissenting priests in Syro-Malabar Church protest Pope Francis’ Christmas deadline 

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

A liturgy at St. Mary’s Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, Arakuzha, India. / Achayan via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bangalore, India, Dec 20, 2023 / 17:50 pm (CNA).
Tensions are rising within the Syro-Malabar Church in the Indian state o… […]

No Picture
News Briefs

Convent in Gaza uninhabitable after taking fire; residents take refuge in parish church

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

The Missionaries of Charity convent located on the compound of Holy Family Parish, the only Catholic church in Gaza, was damaged by rocket fire on Dec. 16, 2023. / Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Dec 20, 2023 / 17:20 pm (CNA)… […]

Analysis

Declaration gives cover to blessing “same-sex couples”, but can it be enforced?

December 20, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 52

The first full news cycle after the Vatican released a declaration allowing pastors to offer blessings for couples in irregular situations was filled with predictable handwringing, improbable popesplaining, and yet another round of doomsaying, mostly […]

No Picture
News Briefs

Bishops in Malawi declare ‘blessings for same-sex unions of any kind are not permitted’

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Members of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM). / Credit: ECM

ACI Africa, Dec 20, 2023 / 12:50 pm (CNA).
Bishops in Malawi have prohibited the implementation of the Vatican declaration on the blessing of “same-sex couples” and couples in o… […]

Posts navigation

« 1 … 10 11 12 … 32 »

The Dispatch: More from CWR

  • Massachusetts becomes 11th state with no abortion limits as Gov. Healey signs bill

    Tessa Gervasini August 11, 2026 6
  • The dangers of the political religious choice

    Casey Chalk August 10, 2026 9
  • New book on state of higher education offers criticism, insights, questions

    Jerry Salyer August 10, 2026 10
  • EWTN News explains: What does it mean that the pope is both head of state and head of the Church?

    Amira Abuzeid August 10, 2026 12

Follow CWR on Facebook

  • Latin American bishops pray for Colombia, express solidarity, following powerful earthquake
  • Court reconsiders First Amendment challenge to Michigan school’s transgender policies
  • The WNBA is the Reductio ad Absurdum of Trans Ideology
  • Church in Colombia prays and mobilizes to help those affected by major earthquake
  • Massachusetts becomes 11th state with no abortion limits as Gov. Healey signs bill
  • Pope chooses theme on AI and war for World Day of Peace 2027
  • Pope Leo XIV expresses sorrow for the victims of earthquake in Colombia
abortion Americas Asia - Pacific Catholic Church Catholic News COVID-19 Europe Jesus Christ Middle East - Africa Pope Francis pro-life prolife prolife2023 prolife2024 religious freedom Ukraine Ukraine War US Vatican Vatican news World
  • William: We don’t need Trump and RFK Jr dictating public policy on vaccines as neither knows anything. Neither are doctors. Yet…
  • DiogenesRedux: So the Catholic governor of Massachusetts believes it to be moral to murder a full-term baby! Any normal person would…
  • Ken T: Perhaps I’m dating myself, but 🎶 “And the beat goes on . . . “ 🎶

Join Our Free Newsletter

Daily
Weekly


 
Search CWR
Follow Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email (Weekly Newsletter)
  • RSS
Recent Comments
  • William on Anthony Fauci, his beloved client, and the bureaucratic regime
  • DiogenesRedux on Massachusetts becomes 11th state with no abortion limits as Gov. Healey signs bill
  • Ken T on Massachusetts becomes 11th state with no abortion limits as Gov. Healey signs bill
  • Barbara Sears on 31 Christians killed in Nigeria, including eleven children and a Catholic priest
  • Athanasius on Pope Leo XIV appoints new members to Vatican’s Council for the Economy
Also on CWR
Pope Benedict XVI embraces Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna
General

Card. Caffarra: “The family is the place where the power of this world clashes with the voice of God.”

Carl E. Olson January 2, 2014 0

On the Feast of the Holy Family, December 29, 2013, the Archbishop of Bologna, Cardinal Carlo Caffarra delivered a homily defending the family against attacks and from laws “issued on the basis of fashionable trends”. The […]

  • Home
  • About / Contact
  • Free Newsletter
  • Advertising
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy

© Catholic World Report

Our Spring Sale Has Started

You can see how this popup was set up in our step-by-step guide: https://wppopupmaker.com/guides/auto-opening-announcement-popups/

A FAITHFULLY CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE

Sign up to receive a weekly email with news, analysis, and commentary from a voice you can trust!

* indicates required


Daily
Weekly