In 1937, Fr. Edward Betowski, a professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York, published Spurs to Conversion, a compilation of weekly reflections encouraging priests to cultivate a missionary spirit in themselves and in their parishioners. Lamenting […]
The day before his elevation to the Sacred College of Cardinals was announced, Archbishop Francis George of Chicago, delivering an unprepared homily at a Saturday evening Mass, threw down a challenge to “liberal Catholicism.” He called it […]
Social doctrine and labor unions In 1891, Pope Leo XIII wrote in Rerum Novarum that a worker’s wages should support the worker and his family. His understanding of marriage and family—which together form the nucleus […]
In transforming culture so that it supports life, women occupy a place, in thought and action, which is unique and decisive. It depends on them to promote a “new feminism” which rejects the temptation of […]
Militia est vita nostra declared Job (at least in the Vulgate version of the Bible): “Our life is a constant battle.” In a similar vein, St. Augustine declared that the need for the virtue of […]
The First Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (1967), held two years after Pope St. Paul VI instituted the Synod of Bishops, was a synod of consequence that still influences the Church today through the canonical legislation, […]
Karol Nawrocki of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party assumed the presidency of Poland on August 6. His inauguration provides two sharp contrasts: between himself and the assorted leftists in Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s […]
The Shroud of Turin in the Cathedral of Turin during the public opening of the Shroud on April 19 2015. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA
CNA Staff, Aug 6, 2025 / 11:14 am (CNA).
Few religious artifacts have been studied and debated as extensively a… […]
A recent document by a European think tank decries the “accelerating financial expansion of movements working to dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.” The report, published by the Brussels-based European Parliamentary […]
A recent news article from PillarCatholic reported on a public spat between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Catholic schools of that country. In a circular dated July 14, […]
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