Extra, extra! News and views for July 20, 2022
Netflix’s Persuasion – There are ways to adapt Austen for a contemporary audience, but those ways are not this way, and I say this not as a purist. Everyone involved should be in prison: Netflix’s […]
Netflix’s Persuasion – There are ways to adapt Austen for a contemporary audience, but those ways are not this way, and I say this not as a purist. Everyone involved should be in prison: Netflix’s […]
About two-thirds of the way through that fine 1992 film, A League of Their Own, star catcher Dottie Hinson has had enough of the grind and is ready to quit. “It just got too hard,” […]
Marc Frings speaking at a press conference of the German "Synodal Way" on February 4, 2022 / Synodaler Weg/Max von Lachner
CNA Newsroom, Jul 19, 2022 / 03:21 am (CNA).
The German “Synodal Way” is aiming to change the Church’s teaching… […]
Vice President Kamala Harris, who “takes stuff seriously”, has offered a supposedly serious argument against Dobbs. Harris on Monday compared the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning a constitutional right to abortion to America’s history of slavery, saying […]
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., and the outgoing chair of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, presents pro-life initiative Walking with Moms in Need to the U.S. bishops on Nov. 17, 2021 in Baltimore. / Screenshot fro… […]
Pope Francis meets members of the First Nations at the Vatican on March 31, 2022. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Jul 17, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
The papal trip to Canada next week will be a “penitential pilgrimage” to bring healing and reconcilia… […]
One of the most depressing things about modern Britain is the lack of awareness of the country’s Christian past. Christian faith has been effectively exiled from public life. Yet the Christian, and specifically Catholic, heritage […]
Bishop Michael Pfeifer, bishop emeritus of San Angelo, Texas. / Courtesy photo.
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 16, 2022 / 03:00 am (CNA).
A Texas bishop emeritus is calling on his fellow Catholic bishops — and all pro-life Americans — to take a… […]
Readings: • Gen 18:1-10a • Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 • Col 1:24-28 • Lk 10:38-42 Americans are, generally speaking, a pragmatic and practical people. We know how to get things done, how to organize, how […]
U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. / Shutterstock
Washington D.C., Jul 15, 2022 / 17:50 pm (CNA).
The House of Representatives on Friday passed a sweeping abortion bill that would undo state restrictions on the procedure nationwide.The Dem… […]
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