On September 11, I came across two headlines which sum up the impact on our culture of the 9/11 attacks. One reads: Michigan Church cancels ‘Is Michigan surrendering to Islam?’ event under pressure from Hamas-linked […]
The thing is, Pope Francis hit the nail right on the head. Odd as it might sound to hear Peter’s successor say he is “unafraid” of schism, there’s no reason for him to lose any […]
Wheeling, W.V., Sep 13, 2019 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- New details have emerged about the lavish lifestyle enjoyed by disgraced Bishop Michael Bransfield. Bransfield spent nearly one million dollars on private jets and over $660,000 […]
I recently listened to a series of lectures that proposed to view the universe and time from a Big History perspective, not as an ant inside a fold in an elephant’s hide would perceive the […]
Vatican City, Sep 12, 2019 / 01:18 pm (CNA).- In a letter sent to German bishops last week, the Vatican has said that plans for a binding Church synod in Germany are “not ecclesiologically valid.” […]
Stephen King, America’s most popular horror writer, is back in fashion. He’s got four big movies this year. In April, Pet Sematary was remade profitably. In October, Netflix is releasing In The Tall Grass. His […]
Two words are central to the story told in an important new biography of Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. The words are complexity and assimilation. Complexity marked his long, distinguished career that included not only the […]
Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to any credible reports of misbehavior being made against Cardinal George Pell, police in Australia’s state of Victoria launch […]
Vatican City, Sep 11, 2019 / 05:29 am (CNA).- Please read below for CNA’s full transcript of the pope’s Sept. 10 in-flight press conference from Antananarivo, Madagascar to Rome: Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy […]
Something on clear display in the Bible and in the history of the Church is that a mission that is authentically from God tends to draw people to itself. When Peter and his companions were […]
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