Aren’t we hearing a lot of voices, secular and from other believers? I am, and many of these voices are angry or fearful or despondent. I have to remind myself that the Church and many […]

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 17, 2020 / 12:45 pm (CNA).- Officials in Rome and Beijing are now confidently predicting an extension to the 2018 Vatican-China deal, despite continued persecution of Catholics in the country and […]

MADISON, Wisconsin — Students returned to the classrooms of St. Ambrose Academy this week under a Wisconsin Supreme Court temporary injunction that prevents the Dane County health agency from enforcing a COVID-19 school-closure order, just […]

American literary critic Wayne C. Booth once claimed that postmodernist theories of the social self have not explicitly acknowledged the religious implications of what they are about. But if you read them closely, you will […]

CNA Staff, Sep 16, 2020 / 01:45 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark said on Tuesday that voters could choose Joe Biden in good conscience, and suggested he would have difficulty voting for President […]

When the choirs of angels led Father Paul Mankowski, SJ, into the Father’s House on September 3, I hope the seraphic choirmaster chose music appropriate to the occasion.  Had I been asked, I would have […]

Higher education is in a state of crisis. And the source of the threat is not what you might think. The pandemic isn’t to blame. It hasn’t helped but it hasn’t caused the problem. COVID […]

Vatican City, Sep 14, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican’s dicastery for liturgy and sacraments, sent a letter to bishops around the world, urging a return to Mass, with […]

Starting in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Diocese of Green Bay on September 19-20 and phasing in at three other dioceses the remainder of September, Wisconsin Catholics are no longer dispensed from mandatory attendance […]

Mark Brumley, President of Ignatius Press, and Carl E. Olson, the Editor of Catholic World Report, recently chatted about Catholic journalism, CWR, fake news, and staying sane during strange times: