Nelson Moda, the head of the Community of Sant’Egidio in Mozambique and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Mozambique, has described religious sects and terrorist groups as “the two wolves” that prey on the […]
Rome, Italy, Nov 2, 2025 / 12:40 pm Celebrating Mass for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed at Rome’s Verano Cemetery, Pope Leo XIV invited Catholics to contemplate death “not so much as a […]
Vatican City, Nov 2, 2025 / 10:50 am Pope Leo XIV issued urgent appeals for peace and humanitarian access in Sudan and Tanzania on Sunday, decrying escalating violence that has left civilians dead and aid […]
CNA Staff, Nov 2, 2025 / 07:00 am The Vatican on Saturday named St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the Church. The 19th-century English saint — a former Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism […]
With grateful hearts, let us invoke the intercession of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Doctor of the Church: Ever-obedient to the voice of conscience, “the aboriginal vicar of Christ,” pray for us. Schooled in the […]
Some fifty years ago, I spent a five-day retreat on a small island off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut. On each day of the retreat, I concentrated my meditation upon a chapter of Saint Paul’s […]
Chicago, Illinois, Nov 1, 2025 / 17:29 pm Bishop Jose María García-Maldonado celebrated a Mass Nov. 1 outside the Broadview facility in Chicago where immigration advocates allege federal authorities inhumanely treat detainees. Maldonado, an auxiliary […]
Readings: • Wis 3:1-9 • Psa 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 • Rom 6:3-9 • Jn 6:37-40 “I’ve always had a hard time explaining purgatory,” the man said. “Didn’t the Second Vatican Council say that Catholics […]
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 1, 2025 / 12:58 pm Graphic evidence emerged Friday of large-scale massacres of civilians in Sudan, including satellite imagery of bodies and blood-stained ground taken outside a hospital in Darfur. More […]
As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger once said so well, one major difference between Protestants and Catholics is that Catholics pray for the dead: “My view is that if Purgatory did not exist, we should have to […]
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