Pope Francis made history on Thursday, when he added to the Roman Martyrology the names of twenty-one Coptic Christians martyred in Libya in 2015, giving them a date on the Roman calendar of saints and […]
It is no easy thing to sum up the thought of a man whose academic and ecclesial career spans some of the most tumultuous and epochal recent historical events in Church and world, whose written […]
Readings: • Acts 6:1-7 • Psa 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19 • 1 Pet 2:4-9 • Jn 14:1-12 Perhaps you, like me, know people who express belief in Jesus, but have no interest in the Church. I […]
As we move closer to the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension, the Church invites us to identify with the sentiments of the Apostles as they faced the eventuality of Christ’s departure from them in a […]
Archbishop Paul Coakley. Courtesy photo. / null
Oklahoma City, Okla., May 1, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Editor’s note: Below is the full text of Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley’s pastoral letter “On the Unity of the Body and Soul: Accompan… […]
St. Thomas Aquinas once said, “The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.” I couldn’t help but think about this quote as I read a recent […]
Probably all of us have had the experience of finding ourselves halfway through a meal and realizing that we hadn’t been paying attention what we were eating: how it tasted, how it went down, or […]
Another Earth Day is approaching, with corresponding pronouncements about environmental doom. What should we make of this? Discussions about the environment typically consist of agreement that the environment needs to be protected, even if we’re […]
We are still in the Easter Octave so it’s not too late to talk about something we often forgot to think about during the Triduum: The Harrowing of Hell. But, before we talk about the […]
Have you ever paused to consider the ocean’s art of driftwood, walking along the shore at dawn? Ever paused at dusk as the foam chilled your feet to meditate on a silver gray block of […]
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