Editor’s note: The following is the Final Exhortation given on June 18, 2020, Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, for the Seminarian Days of the Diocese of Memphis. Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the […]

I’ve been reading, recently, a good deal of the work of Dietrich von Hildebrand—perhaps not a household name, but in fact one of the greatest Catholic philosophers of the last century. An inspiration to both […]

Vatican City, Jun 19, 2020 / 12:40 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis declared Friday that Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, an Italian religious sister killed by three teenage girls in a Satanic sacrifice, was a martyr for […]

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address is one of the most remarkable documents in American history–a serious theological meditation by a president as well as a work of great literary art. Speaking March 4, 1865 to […]

Note: The following homily was preached on June 18, 2020 for the Seminarian Days of the Diocese of Memphis. If you were to die tonight, how would you like your obituary to read? What would […]

CNA Staff, Jun 17, 2020 / 05:29 pm (CNA).- Catholic leaders say the Church has an important role in working for racial justice, but that protesting for justice does not imply endorsement of the positions […]

Grotesquely misguided as Marxism undoubtedly is, a case can be made that some of the concerns which animate Marxists are legitimate. After all, exploitation is no mere empty rhetorical term when applied to many 19th-century […]

America is, to state the obvious, incredibly divided, with tensions running high from coast to coast, as evidenced in the recent protests and riots inspired by the killing of George Floyd by a police officer. […]

A brief dip into Latin helps us understand how preconceptions can lead to biased judgments that falsify history — as they did when an Australian Royal Commission on sexual abuse recently impugned the integrity of […]

Special Mass to take place On Monday, June 22, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, the Mattie Stepanek Guild will sponsor a Mass to commemorate the sixteenth anniversary of the passing of poet and peace activist Mattie Stepanek, as well […]