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 […]

Reel Rating: 2 out of 5 reels         Over the past few years Netflix has been vigorously pursuing the genre of hard sci-fi/fantasy with movies including Bright and Birdbox. Now comes Project Power, […]

There are four sets of ember days, roughly corresponding to the four seasons, hence their name in Latin, “quattuor tempora.” It is a linguistic mystery as to how we got the name “ember” days, except […]

Readings: • Ez 18:25-28 • Psa 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 • Phil 2:1-11 • Matt 21:28-32 Growing up I heard countless admonishments from my parents—all of them deserved, I readily confess. One that has stuck […]

It is a sign of desperation anytime The Handmaid’s Tale is trotted out as invective. Predictably, this has been the lazy response to the possibility of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court Justice—and likely […]

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 25, 2020 / 11:00 am (CNA).- At around 6pm on Thursday, Pope Francis summoned Cardinal Angelo Becciu to a meeting, multiple sources tell CNA. In the hour before, the pope reportedly […]

A friend asks me to write about miracles, taking as an example the events that brought him and his wife together in a happy marriage now in its 58th year. To his credit, he doesn’t […]