A statue of Bl. Charles de Foucauld in Strasbourg, France. / PhotoFires/Shutterstock
Rome Newsroom, Oct 21, 2021 / 06:05 am (CNA).
A canonization Mass is a global event, drawing thousands of people to the Vatican — the heart of the Catholic Chur… […]
Recently the capacious novelist Jonathan Franzen disclosed an ongoing preoccupation with “the inescapable nature of religion.” This is welcome news from unexpected quarters, proof that (as Pope Benedict XVI puts it) “men today feel the […]
Certain Catholic media platforms that often function as de facto extensions of Jen Psaki’s White House Press Office have continually urged the U.S. bishops to dodge the issue of pro-abortion Catholic politicians receiving holy communion. […]
Updated at 7:00pm Eastern, Oct. 19, 2021 | United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer denied a petition for emergency injunction made by a group of 2,009 Maine health care workers who are […]
Some years ago, I read a novel entitled All The Light We Cannot See (2014) by Anthony Doerr, a title with multiple meanings: scientific, cultural, and moral. This was a story of a blind French […]
Benedict XVI. / Giulio Napolitano via Shutterstock.
Wilhering, Austria, Oct 19, 2021 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has said that he looks forward to joining his friends in heaven in a condolence message following the death of a Ci… […]
When Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ was first released in 2004, the secular world focused almost exclusively on its depiction of violence. Movie reviewers who had been recommending horror films for decades […]
Belfairs Methodist Church, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. / David Howard (CC BY-SA 2.0).
London, England, Oct 18, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).
A Catholic priest said on Sunday that he respected the police’s decision not to grant him access to a crime scene to g… […]
United States military service members have been demoted, harassed, abused and threatened by superiors for seeking religious exemptions to the Department of Defense’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a federal class-action lawsuit alleges. One Air Force technical […]
Way back in 1987, Father Stephen O’Brien penned a slim but important volume entitled: Mixed Messages: What Bishops and Priests Say about Catholic Schools (National Catholic Education Association). A major point was that, while clergy generally […]
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