Catholic World Report
Catholic World Report

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email (Weekly Newsletter)
  • RSS
  • Home
  • Columns
    • Chapp’s Schtick
    • Ecclesia et Civitas
    • God’s First
    • God’s Two Books
    • The Past Present
  • Features
    • Analysis
    • Books
    • Editorial
    • Essay
    • Film & Music
    • History
    • Interview
    • News
    • Opinion
    • Special Report
  • The Dispatch
  • Topics
    • Pope Francis
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • Books
    • Canon Law
    • All Topics
  • About CWR
  • Advertise
  • Donate
News Briefs
  • [ July 2, 2025 ] Dominican Father Ambrose Little appointed new director of Thomistic Institute News Briefs
  • [ July 2, 2025 ] UN delegation makes surprise visit to Catholic parish in Gaza News Briefs
  • [ July 2, 2025 ] Pope Leo XIV encourages Ukrainian bishops during meeting at the Vatican News Briefs
  • [ July 2, 2025 ] Pope Leo XIV’s hometown votes to purchase his childhood home News Briefs
  • [ July 2, 2025 ] Young European Catholics release manifesto: ‘The revolution has begun’ News Briefs

Catholic social teaching

The Dispatch

What it’s like to be a Catholic in the world’s largest Muslim country

September 3, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

The Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Jakarta, Indonesia / EWTN News

Jakarta, Indonesia, Sep 3, 2024 / 06:08 am (CNA).
As a Catholic living in the world’s largest Muslim country, Baso Darmawan does not think twice about making… […]

No Picture
News Briefs

As EU plans new vaccine passport, Catholic experts call for pandemic response review

August 29, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

null / Credit: Ball Lunla/Shutterstock

CNA Newsroom, Aug 29, 2024 / 10:18 am (CNA).
Catholic experts are calling for a thorough and transparent review of data privacy and the COVID-19 pandemic response, including the impact of church closures a… […]

Essay

Politics before faith: JD Vance follows Kennedy and Cuomo

August 28, 2024 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 141

In 1960, then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy set a standard for Catholic politicians seeking federal office in a nation still viscerally anti-Catholic. In a speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts […]

Books

A broader, better, and authentically Catholic vision of politics

April 2, 2024 Larry Chapp 36

During the time of the early Church, it was commonplace for Caesar to be addressed as “Lord.” And this was more than a simple honorific title acknowledging that Caesar was the supreme political authority in […]

No Picture
News Briefs

Pope Francis sends message from hospital to European political party

June 11, 2023 Catholic News Agency 4
Pope Francis on the morning of June 7, 2023 shortly before heading to the hospital for abdominal surgery greets pilgrims at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Rome, Italy, Jun 11, 2023 / 05:10 am (CNA).

While recovering in the hospital, Pope Francis sent a message to the largest political party in the European Parliament.

In a letter to the European People’s Party published by the Vatican on June 11, the pope urged politicians to be united on “issues where primary ethical values and important points of Christian social doctrine are at stake.”

“The Christian politician should distinguish himself by the seriousness with which he approaches issues, rejecting opportunistic solutions and always holding firm to the criteria of the dignity of the person and the common good,” Pope Francis said.

“In this regard, you have a very rich heritage on which to draw to bring your original contribution to European politics, namely the social doctrine of the Church. Think, for example, of the two principles of solidarity and subsidiarity and their virtuous dynamic.”

Pope Francis signed the letter on June 9, two days after he underwent a three-hour surgery for an incisional hernia. A team of surgeons removed scar tissue and operated on a hernia in the pope’s abdominal wall at the site of a previous surgical incision.

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said June 11 that Pope Francis’ “post-operative progress is normal.” He added that the pope watched Sunday Mass on television and received the Eucharist in his hospital room before praying the Angelus in the papal medical suite chapel and eating lunch with some hospital staff.

The 86-year-old pope is expected to remain recovering in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for the next week. The Vatican has canceled all of the pope’s audiences, including his Sunday Angelus address, until June 18.

In his message to the European People’s Party, the pope said that he views human fraternity as “the great inspiring principle” for tackling the challenges of migration and caring for the planet.

“I think that fraternity can also be a source of inspiration for those who want to re-animate Europe today so that it fully responds to the expectations of both its peoples and the whole world. Because a European project today can only be a global project,” Francis said.

The European People’s Party is a center-right political group in the European Union, made up of 40 parties across Europe, including Germany’s Christian Democratic Union, The Republicans of France, Forza Italia of Italy, the People’s Party in Spain, and Fine Gael of Ireland.

The party was founded as the Christian Democrat Group in 1953 and traces its roots back to Venerable Robert Schuman, known as a key “founding father” of the European Union.

“Dear friends, let us remember our origins: let us not forget how united Europe was born; let us not forget the tragedy of the wars of the 20th century,” Pope Francis wrote.

“The gradual and patient work of building a united Europe … what did it have in it as inspiration? What ideal, if not to generate a space where people could live in freedom, justice, and peace, respecting each other in diversity? Today this project is being tested in a globalized world, but it can be revived by drawing on the original inspiration, which is more relevant and fruitful than ever not only for Europe but for the entire human family.”

[…]

No Picture
News Briefs

Pope Francis calls on entrepreneurs to be ‘prophets’

October 17, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis speaking to Spanish entrepreneurs at the Vatican, Oct. 17, 2022. / Vatican Media

CNA Newsroom, Oct 17, 2022 / 07:15 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Monday called on entrepreneurs to be “prophets“ and to continue to transform the economy…. […]

No Picture
News Briefs

U.S. bishops urge Senate to pass protections for working moms in Labor Day message

September 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

null / Krakenimages.com/Shutterstock.

Denver Newsroom, Sep 5, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
In their message for Labor Day, the U.S. bishops have urged the passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act as a means of building a just economy for women an… […]

No Picture
News Briefs

What to know about Biden’s student loan forgiveness program

August 29, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

A demonstration in favor of student debt forgiveneness near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, April 3, 2021. / Ben Von Klemperer/Shutterstock

Washington D.C., Aug 29, 2022 / 17:11 pm (CNA).
President Biden’s student loan forgiveness announcement la… […]

Essay

The road to Rerum Novarum and the evolution of Catholic social teaching

August 24, 2022 Michael D. Greaney 8

From the pontificate of Gregory XVI down to the present day, there has been an ongoing crisis precipitated by the advent of the “New Things” (rerum novarum) of socialism and modernism. Since 1832 and the […]

The Dispatch

Pius XI, Saint Joseph, and Joseph Stalin

March 19, 2022 Michael J. Nader 8

Eighty-five years ago this week, Pope Pius XI issued two encyclicals condemning two of the most brutal regimes in history: Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union.  Pius released Mit Brennender Sorge (“On the Church and […]

Posts navigation

1 2 3 »

The Dispatch: More from CWR

  • Slipping Scripture past the modern cultural dragons

    Jerry Salyer July 2, 2025 0
  • Independence Day #249

    George Weigel July 2, 2025 5
  • Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, July 2, 2025

    CWR Staff July 2, 2025 13
  • Cardinal Ambongo: Opposition to same-sex blessings not an ‘African exception’

    Catholic News Agency July 1, 2025 9

Follow CWR on Facebook

  • Slipping Scripture past the modern cultural dragons
  • Dominican Father Ambrose Little appointed new director of Thomistic Institute
  • UN delegation makes surprise visit to Catholic parish in Gaza
  • Pope Leo XIV encourages Ukrainian bishops during meeting at the Vatican
  • Pope Leo XIV’s hometown votes to purchase his childhood home
  • Young European Catholics release manifesto: ‘The revolution has begun’
  • Prominent Catholic bioethics center in Oxford, England, shuttered amid financial strain
abortion Americas Asia - Pacific Catholic Church Catholic News COVID-19 Eucharist Europe Jesus Christ Middle East - Africa Pope Francis pro-life prolife prolife2023 prolife2024 religious freedom Ukraine Ukraine War US Vatican Vatican news
  • Robert Honavar: That two year extension should be the limit. After two years, strictly novus ordo. It's well past time for the…
  • meiron: Catherine, I agree. Have you read Diane Montagna's reporting about the survey upon which Traditionis Custodes based its claims? Diane…
  • Mary E: @Was Traditionis Custodes Based on Falsehoods? After reading the assessment, the immediate thing to be done is for the Vatican…

Join Our Free Newsletter

Daily
Weekly


 
Search CWR
Follow Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email (Weekly Newsletter)
  • RSS
Recent Comments
  • Robert Honavar on Vatican grants exemption from Traditional Latin Mass restrictions to Texas parish
  • meiron on Vatican grants exemption from Traditional Latin Mass restrictions to Texas parish
  • Mary E on Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, July 2, 2025
  • Charles E Flynn on Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, July 2, 2025
  • Timothy J. Williams on Vatican grants exemption from Traditional Latin Mass restrictions to Texas parish
Also on CWR
No Picture
General

Explosive found at shrine Francis will visit on Wednesday

Catherine Harmon July 22, 2013 0

From the Buenos Aires Herald: Sao Paulo military police have detonated a home-made bomb that was found in one of the bathrooms inside the National Sanctuary of Aparecida, which will be visited by Pope Francisco […]

  • Home
  • About / Contact
  • Free Newsletter
  • Advertising
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy

© Catholic World Report

Our Spring Sale Has Started

You can see how this popup was set up in our step-by-step guide: https://wppopupmaker.com/guides/auto-opening-announcement-popups/

A FAITHFULLY CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE

Sign up to receive a weekly email with news, analysis, and commentary from a voice you can trust!

* indicates required


Daily
Weekly