These days there is no shortage of doomsayers. Many across the political and religious spectrum feel a profound sense of disease and uncertainty, even fear, about the present state of world affairs. Despite a shared […]
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord [August 6, 2020] at the Church of the Holy Innocents, […]
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the fifth of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series, the mysterious Aslan is famously referred to as “not a tame Lion.” Itself a story of a pilgrimage-like journey, Aslan tells […]
Pope Francis sits quietly during a meeting with students at the Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 3, 2023. / Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Aug 4, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA).
In a newly published interview, Pope Francis descr… […]
Controversy rages on even after the Supreme Court ruled in 303 Creative v. Elenis that public officials in Colorado could not force a wedding website designer to offer her services to couples entering into “same-sex […]
My maternal grandfather of blessed memory taught me something more than forty years ago: we who are so quick to criticize our leaders, he said, should be equally if not more quick to praise them […]
Bishop Robert Barron speaks to tens of thousands of young people at a World Youth Day gathering in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 2, 2023. The event, hosted by the U.S. bishops’ conference, culminated in a eucharistic procession and Holy Hour. / Credit:… […]
In its language and in its purposes, explicit and implicit, the recently released working document for the upcoming session of the Synod in October, Instrumentum Laboris (IL), is modeled after political and public-opinion concerns and […]
Pope Francis participates in vespers at Jerónimos Monastery in Portugal, Aug. 2, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Aug 2, 2023 / 12:35 pm (CNA).
Acknowledging the discouragement that can be experienced by Catholic leaders in secu… […]
Westerplatte, a narrow peninsula framing the Bay of Gdańsk, was the scene of one of the first battles of World War II in Europe. On Sept. 1, 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on […]
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