Many Catholics find themselves bewildered at the tidal wave of bad news they seem to encounter on a weekly basis. Tidal waves of prayer and the intense pursuit of holiness are needed to meet the […]
Archbishop Allen Vigneron carries the Blessed Sacrament during a Corpus Christi procession in June 2016. / Jonathan Francis | Detroit Catholic file photo
Denver Newsroom, Jul 14, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
A poll released this week found that of Ca… […]
Two substantial new historical studies of Pope Pius XII’s response to the Jewish Holocaust reach sharply opposed conclusions. Not surprisingly, it’s the negative criticism of Pius rather than the documented defense that’s getting attention, including […]
Archbishop Joseph Naumann / Catholic News Agency
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 14, 2022 / 10:26 am (CNA).
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas has he is “sad” over the way Pope Francis has handled the controversy surrounding the … […]
I was thirteen years old when I first encountered J.R.R. Tolkien’s amazing world of Middle-earth. Director Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings were about to take theaters by storm, but at […]
Sr. Raffaella Petrini meets Pope Francis. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Jul 13, 2022 / 04:48 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Wednesday named three women to the Dicastery of Bishops, the Vatican office responsible for evaluating new members of the Ca… […]
The New Authoritarians – What changed in March 2020? How have things played out? What are the causes? What can we expect, looking ahead? Evil In Our Time: Naomi Wolf on the Covid Response (Brownstone […]
While I’ve never been able to remember the details of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), I’ve riffed on those monikers to denominate a major struggle […]
There’s a scene in Brian De Palma’s 1987 classic, The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner as Elliot Ness, with Sean Connery as Chicago police Sgt. James Malone, which has been on my mind of late. Malone […]
On July 9th, the Church remembered the heroic lives and deaths of 120 Chinese martyrs. These men, women, and children died between the years 1648 and 1930. But the practice of the Christian faith did […]
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