“Where does this leave us?” That was the question a friend put to me during the week, after news broke of another powerful cardinal in trouble for misbehaving with minors. Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, emeritus of […]
The headlines are depressing: a bishop resigns who defrauded an elderly widow of six figures, and no mention is made of this fact in the official Vatican announcement. A cardinal admits to abusing a 14-year-old […]
Les Petites Sœurs Disciples de l’Agneau, or The Little Sisters Disciples of the Lamb, live of prayer in the Indre region of southern France. / The Little Sisters Disciples of the Lamb
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 12, 2022 / 09:00 am (CNA).
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Why do images of Saint Martin of Tours almost always show him riding a horse? And why is the Ukrainian saint Josaphat Kuntsevych generally shown carrying a strangely shaped weapon? We Catholics often use holy […]
Readings: • Mal 3:19-20A • Psa 98:5-6, 7-8, 9 • 2 These 3:7-12 • Lk 21:5-19 “The kingdom of God, beloved brothers and sisters, has drawn near,” wrote Saint Cyprian. “The reward of life, the joy […]
Father Gordon J. MacRae, wrongly convicted of sexual misconduct, may finally be freed soon, after serving nearly thirty years in prison. Father MacRae, who tells his story on his blog Beyond These Stone Walls, has […]
Catholics are rightly fond of quoting Pope John Paul II’s opening line in his encyclical Fides et Ratio: “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of […]
Gad Elmaleh / Our Lady of Lourdes / Credit: Georges Biard (CC BY-SA 3.0) / Credit: Public domain
CNA Newsroom, Nov 10, 2022 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
The famous Jewish actor and humorist Gad Elmaleh, beloved in France, announced his conversion to the C… […]
It is sad to consider there is little of the new in the news that a cardinal turns out to be may be a rapist.* That the cardinal is a Frenchman – Jean-Pierre Cardinal Ricard, […]
Jared Staudt’s recent essay “Consuming true medicine: Why Catholics should oppose legalizing marijuana” suggested that the use of certain intoxicants—in this case cannabis—does not typically help users grapple with reality; instead, it enables them to […]
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