Pope Francis leads the Synod delegates in prayer, Oct. 25, 2024. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 26, 2023 / 06:55 am (CNA).
Pope Francis denounced clericalism and called it a “scandal” to see young priests buying lace vestments at tailor shop… […]
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Rome Newsroom, Aug 7, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).
Spiritual worldliness is one of the most dangerous temptations facing priests and the Church because it “reduces spirituality to appearance” while disconnecting it from the Gospel… […]
Let’s do an Occam’s Razor on this new Motu Proprio. It seems pretty simple to me: A number of bishops wanted the tools to restrict celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), and Pope Francis […]
Disquiet abounds at present in the milieu which celebrates the usus antiquior – the more ancient use – of the Roman rite of the Sacred Liturgy. Seemingly the Holy See is considering issuing new norms […]
Vatican City, Jun 10, 2021 / 13:00 pm Pope Francis Thursday urged a group of Italian seminarians to avoid rigidity, which, he said, lacks humanity, and encouraged them to ask God for the gift of […]
The long awaited McCarrick Report – or to give it its full, gloriously bureaucratic title, the Report of the Holy See’s Institutional Knowledge and Decision-Making Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930 – 2017) […]
Steadily they walked, well-dressed, serious, each carrying a staff or a lit candle about a meter long, even the children. Over the two hours or so that we watched, there were hundreds of them—men and […]
Just over a year ago, in looking at a minor liturgical change announced by Pope Francis, I drew on the work of D.W. Winnicott to help better understand some of the papal language about the […]
The Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, recently delivered remarks that focused on the leadership crisis in the Church. The churchman — a leader widely respected and admired for good reason — was right in […]
Timothy R. Busch is an attorney, philanthropist, and entrepreneur based in Orange County, California, known in Catholic circles for helping found Magis Center and the Napa Institute. In 2016, the Busch Family Foundation gave the Catholic […]
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