In Quarto Abeunte Saeculo, Pope Leo XIII shows us why the voyage of Christopher Columbus stands in a class by itself. There is simply no way of comparing the Genoan’s landfall in the Americas with […]

Vatican City, Oct 7, 2018 / 03:39 am (CNA).- The Vatican’s prefect for the Congregation for Bishops released a letter Sunday morning refuting charges Pope Francis lifted sanctions against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and saying […]

Vatican City, Oct 6, 2018 / 08:09 am (CNA).- The Vatican announced Saturday that it would review its files pertaining to allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, who has been […]

There is a crisis in masculine identity and mission today. It is due, in large part, to the failure of men to know and to live out our identity and our vocation. Accusations, abominations, sexual […]

In his first intervention today (full text below) at the Youth Synod, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. criticized the Instrumentum Laboris – the working document for the synod — for including the descriptive “LGBTQ youth” […]

The Synod on youth holds particular interest for me since I have spent a great portion of my priestly ministry teaching high school and college students, as well as seminarians. Pope Francis’ claim that youth […]

I never took a class from historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the faculty section of my college yearbook — “History is an antidote for despair” —has stuck with me for 45 […]

Vatican City, Oct 2, 2018 / 11:40 am (CNA/EWTN News).- “Always be prepared to make a defence….for the hope that is in you.” This was the verse of scripture that St. John Paul II chose […]