By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Sep 15, 2023 03:00 am
The Church throughout the world celebrates the Triumph of the Cross on September 14, and the Roman Rite fittingly follows that up the very next day with its commemoration of Our Lady of Sorrows. Popular [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 14, 2023 01:55 pm
Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm at a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 28, 2017. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Sep 14, 2023 / 12:55 pm (CNA).
Scandinavia’s top Church leader hopes the role of women in the Church’s ... [...]
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By J. J. Ziegler on Sep 14, 2023 01:39 pm
On September 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II issued Fides et Ratio (“Faith and Reason,” Latin text, English translation), an encyclical letter on the relationship between faith and reason — or, to translate the [...]
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By Larry Chapp on Sep 13, 2023 09:18 pm
By now it is common knowledge among Catholics who follow social media that the firebrand and rogue traditionalist priest Fr. James Altman has formally declared, in a video posted to YouTube, that Pope Francis is [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Sep 13, 2023 08:00 pm
On the Readings for Saturday, September 14th, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross [...]
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By Sarah Cain on Sep 13, 2023 03:10 pm
Many in Catholic media have taken to warning that religious persecution is coming. Yet, such statements seem oblivious to what is already taking place. The persecution of Christians and especially Catholics tends to target individuals [...]
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By CWR Staff on Sep 13, 2023 03:00 am
Which “Way” at the Synod on Synodality? – “Any version of synodality that neglects both Christ as the Way and the moral life as the way to Him does not rise to the level of [...]
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By Ines Angeli Murzaku on Sep 12, 2023 10:48 pm
Recently, Pope Francis addressed the delegation who presented him with the 2023 “È Giornalismo” Prize – Francis had declined similar awards in the past, because, as he said, he is not interested in awards. Nevertheless, [...]
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By Christopher R. Altieri on Sep 12, 2023 10:08 pm
Pope Francis is worried about the synod, and he wants journalists to help tell the real story of it—only it appears he also wants them to tell it as told by the managers of his [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 12, 2023 11:35 am
Switzerland. / Credit: Nikolai Lehmann (@lehmannnikolai)/Unsplash
CNA Newsroom, Sep 12, 2023 / 10:35 am (CNA).
A comprehensive, yearlong investigation into sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Switzerland released on Tuesday has documente... [...]
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By S. Kirk Pierzchala on Sep 11, 2023 11:20 pm
Warning: This essay contains graphic language about surgical procedures that are not appropriate for younger readers. The summer of 2022 was the summer of Kate Bush’s classic song “Running Up That Hill”. The 80’s hit [...]
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By Giornalista Anonimo on Sep 11, 2023 09:44 pm
The confusion of ideas, as well as cultural and psychological subservience to other cultures and visions of life, have infected a large part of the Church in Italy and Italian Catholic public opinion. An episode [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 11, 2023 10:30 am
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, presides over a Divine Liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sept. 10, 2023. / Credit: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Rome Newsroom, Sep 11, 2023 / 09:30 am ... [...]
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By James V. Schall, S.J. on Sep 11, 2023 03:00 am
Editor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. James V. Schall was published originally in slightly different form at Ignatius Insight on September 8, 2006, to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 [...]
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By Father Seán Connolly on Sep 11, 2023 12:40 am
In the midst of the carnage of two of the most seminal and tragic events in American history, God’s saving grace was made manifest by the presence of a Catholic priest. The Battle of Gettysburg [...]
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By Samuel J. Klumpenhouwer on Sep 10, 2023 08:14 pm
One cannot read far in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa before encountering a quotation introduced by “The Gloss says….” Whatever follows invariably contains some insightful observation on the biblical text. By “The Gloss” Thomas means what later [...]
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By Dawn Beutner on Sep 10, 2023 03:00 am
There have been movies made and books written about Corrie Ten Boom, and a TV series was recently released about Miep Gies. But those two brave women were not the only ones who risked their [...]
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By Christopher R. Altieri on Sep 09, 2023 10:22 pm
“Journalism is the first draft of history,” the saying goes, and journalists who wrote the first draft of Pope Francis’s visit to Mongolia earlier this month made some note of its genuinely historic character. Most [...]
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By Catholic News Agency on Sep 09, 2023 05:00 pm
Eduardo Verástegui registered Sept. 7, 2023, as an independent candidate for the presidency of Mexico in the 2024 elections. / Credit: Facebook / Eduardo Verástegui
ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 9, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Mexican actor, producer, and fo... [...]
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By Edward Short on Sep 09, 2023 11:22 am
In response to my recent article “Pastoral’ Discernment and Cutting the Ground Under the Papal Feet”, in which I quoted St John Henry Newman to argue that the pope is obliged to uphold the Moral [...]
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By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman on Sep 09, 2023 04:00 am
The Mexican Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a new ruling nullifying criminal penalties for abortion in federal law, in response to a lawsuit brought by an abortion activist group funded with millions of dollars in [...]
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By Filip Mazurczak on Sep 08, 2023 10:56 pm
On Sunday, September 10th, Wiktoria and Józef Ulma, their six children, and their unborn child (Wiktoria began to give birth during her execution) will be beatified in Markowa in southeastern Poland. On March 24, 1944, [...]
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By Fr. Bill Kuchinsky on Sep 08, 2023 08:30 pm
You formed my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. – Psalm 139:13 Praised be Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Living and the Dead. The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Sep 08, 2023 07:50 pm
On the Readings for Sunday, September 10, 2017 [...]
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