On January 21, 2021, Pope Francis approved the promulgation of a decree on the heroic virtues of Jérôme Lejeune (Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, New Catholic Encyclopedia, Science and its Times). The following […]
On December 16, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced that Pope Francis will canonize Blessed María Antonia of Saint Joseph (1730-1799) on February 11. Born near Santiago del Estero, Argentina, as María Antonia […]
This past year was a rare but not unprecedented year that saw no canonizations. No saints were canonized in thirteen of the past sixty years (1965, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, […]
In 303, the Roman Emperor Diocletian launched a brutal persecution of the Church. The persecution lasted for a decade, until Constantine extended toleration to Christians in the Edict of Milan. Against this backdrop, nineteen bishops […]
On November 24, 2013, Pope Francis signed Evangelii Gaudium [The Joy of the Gospel], his apostolic exhortation on the proclamation of the Gospel in today’s world. The document’s publication followed the October 2012 Synod of […]
On September 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II issued Fides et Ratio (“Faith and Reason,” Latin text, English translation), an encyclical letter on the relationship between faith and reason — or, to translate the […]
One hundred twenty-five years ago, on September 5, 1898, Pope Leo XIII issued Diuturni temporis (“Of a long time”), the last of his dozen Rosary encyclicals. Pope Leo was eighty-eight years old and had reigned […]
Few terms have become as unmoored from their Catholic origins, and have thus lent themselves to misunderstanding in contemporary discourse, as has the term “social justice.” What does the term mean when it appears in […]
On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Duchess Sophie, in Sarajevo. A month later, on July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and on August 1, Germany […]
On May 10, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI authorized the publication of the decree on the heroic virtues of Sr. Emilie Engel. The decree was subsequently published in 2013 in Acta Apostolicae Sedis (vol. 6, pp. […]
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