With World Youth Day celebrations underway today in Lisbon, the curtain is up on what many pope-watchers already believe to be the last act of the Francis pontificate. There is a certain poetic arc to […]
An emerging trend among Catholic institutions of higher education is to see themselves as direct agents of social justice. Many host social justice events, institute policies such as socially responsible investing and promote awareness of […]
Participants at World Youth Day 2023 in in Lisbon, Portugal. / Credit: José Ferreira/JMJ Lisboa 2023
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 31, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
According to an international survey, 96% of young people over the age of 18 who are attending… […]
Ihar Losik, a Belarusian political prisoner and Catholic. / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
St. Louis, Mo., Jul 31, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA).
Catholic blogger and father Ihar Losik remains incarcerated in Belarus more than three years after being … […]
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Defenders of the Faith in Word and Deed (Ignatius Press) by Fr. Charles P. Connor, and was originally posted at CWR on July 31, 2017. ————– On October […]
I once read of a man who identifies as a hippopotamus. This nugget relating to postmodern cultural realities put me in mind of T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hippopotamus”, whose hero progresses from “rest[ing] on his […]
Entrance to the chapel of the Shrine of Vryssi, a Marian pilgrimage on the island of Tinos, Greece. / Photo courtesy of the Congregation of the Servants of the Virgin of Matarà
Rome, Italy, Jul 30, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
On a small island calle… […]
Readings: • 1 Kngs 3:5, 7-12 • Psa 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130 • Rom 8:28-30 • Mt 13:44-52 How good are you and I at recognizing something that is valuable, even priceless? That question […]
Pilgrims gather around Chesterton’s grave at Beaconsfield during July 25, 2020 pilgrimage / Photo courtesy of Catholic GKC Society
Rome, Italy, Jul 29, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
On July 29, the 13th annual G.K. Chesterton Pilgrimage will take plac… […]
Have you ever had the unpleasant experience of listening to an acquaintance unjustifiably criticize someone you consider a friend? It’s shocking when we realize how human beings can completely misunderstand one another. This happens not […]
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