So, Italy just extended the full slate of emergency measures until April 13th — Easter Monday — a national holiday here, called Pasquetta, which translates literally as “Little Easter” and usually involves outings with picnics, […]

Denver, Colo., Apr 1, 2020 / 04:34 pm (CNA).- The bishop of Boise told priests last month that Mass in the diocese should not be celebrated in the ad orientem posture, and that material from […]

In the mid-7th century, the plague was not so much an existential threat as a regular event in England. Time and time again in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, St. Bede tells us, […]

This bruising Lent, in which “fasting” has assumed unprecedented new forms, seems likely to be followed by an Eastertide of further spiritual disruption. What is God’s purpose in all this? I would be reluctant to […]

Just days after I wrote about the irresponsibility of environmental advocates looking for silver linings in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vatican News posted on Monday, and then quickly removed, a piece doing just […]

I have lived in Santa Barbara, California for the past four years. In that brief time, my neighbors and I have experienced a number of real tragedies. Just over two years ago, the terrible Thomas […]

As I approach the second week of my 14-day quarantine, due to possible COVID-19 infection upon detachment from my previous military command in Japan, I find myself like so many other quarantined individuals around the […]

When asked if she thought that college creative writing programs stifle too many aspiring authors, Flannery O’Connor said that the real problem is that they don’t stifle nearly enough of them. That such programs do […]

Vatican City, Mar 30, 2020 / 09:06 am (CNA).- Six sisters in one northern Italian convent have died of coronavirus, and nine sisters are being treated in the hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, according […]

SUN PRAIRIE, Wisconsin — The sign on the sidewalk out front of church was every bit as jarring as the raw March wind. “NO MASSES OR GATHERINGS. DIRECTIVE OF THE BISHOP.” As I walked past […]