Pope Francis meeting participants at the “Holiness Today” conference on Oct. 6, 2022. / Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Oct 6, 2022 / 05:07 am (CNA).
What does it look like to be a Catholic saint today? A Vatican conference taking place in Rome th… […]
Having reviewed the republication of Henri de Lubac’s book The Church: Paradox and Mystery, I had to accept that space constraints prevented me from discussing at more length a part of the text that moved […]
Imagine two baseball diamonds. One is pristine: grass closely cropped, perfectly even terrain, brightly chalked foul lines, a smooth warning track, and padded walls decorating the whole perimeter. The other is unkept: grass patches interspersed […]
“Governing elites . . . have cruelly abandoned broad swathes of vulnerable Americans—including children, the working class, black Americans, and the urban poor—in implementing scientifically uninformed, politically partisan, and self-serving policies.” Proving the Point at […]
A couple years ago my then seven-year-old son fell from a not-insignificant height. It was the kind of fall on the playground where all the kids (and adults) turn and hold their breath, when time […]
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the Solemnity of All Saints, November 1, 2019, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York […]
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Life here below is all about the pursuit of sanctity. How does one go about that process, so as to know the greatest measure of […]
Lately I’ve been reading the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila. Although not always easy going, it’s a compellingly interesting book and, now and then at least, a surprisingly amusing one. For Saint Teresa, along […]
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