Readings: • Isa 5:1-7 • Psa 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20 • Phil 4:6-9 • Matt 21:33-43 Vineyards are mentioned throughout Scripture, beginning with a description of Noah as the “first tiller of the soil” […]

In addition to broad discussions about the role that Amy Coney Barrett’s religious faith might play on her judging, her detractors have also focused on her body of work as a judge on the 7th […]

Denver Newsroom, Oct 1, 2020 / 10:48 pm (CNA).- On October 6, 2018, the Holy See announced a review of its files and archives pertaining to Theodore McCarrick, the former Archbishop of Washington, D.C, who […]

The First Vatican Council conducted its last session on September 1, 1870, and was “suspended”—not adjourned—in October: [We] do suspend the same [the council] until some more convenient and appropriate time, to be assigned by […]

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 1, 2020 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- An investment fund created for the Holy See Secretariat of State to invest Church funds was used to purchase millions in a bond of debt […]

Three U.S. Navy officers look out at me from a small, black-and-white snapshot, taken in Sasebo, Japan, on September 26, 1945: three and a half weeks after the Japanese Empire’s formal surrender aboard USS Missouri. […]

In the last two years, abortion as a public issue has changed in at least four ways. First, the formerly abortion-should-be-safe-and-rare Democratic party culminated recent years of expanding its abortion advocacy by establishing abortion as […]

CNA Staff, Sep 29, 2020 / 01:02 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Raymond Burke, a canon lawyer and formerly the prefect of the Church’s highest court, has said that Catholic politicians supporting abortion should not receive Holy […]

In this “Age of Discouragement” (to coin a phrase) the study of economics can be depressing. It’s commonly called “The dismal science.” As the old joke has it, “Economists have predicted ten of the last […]

Washington D.C., Sep 28, 2020 / 04:40 pm (CNA).- Ahead of a visit to the Vatican this week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he plans to discuss human rights abuses in China, and […]