Catholic News Agency, Matthew Santucci: The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation awarded its annual Ratzinger Prize this week to two Spaniards, the theologian Father Pablo Blanco Sarto and the philosopher Professor Francesc Torralba, the first time the award was held … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: Like any journalist I hate to be beaten to a story, and this week Catholic World News (CWN) was late on a big one. Yet I have no regrets. If you’ll join me for a few … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Nicolás de Cárdenas: On Nov. 26, 1504, Queen Isabella of Spain — known as “the Catholic” monarch — died, and more than 500 years later, 133 Masses were celebrated in her memory in thanksgiving for her life … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Daniel Payne: Pope Francis will not attend the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai this week due to his continuing struggles with lung inflammation stemming from influenza, the Vatican said on Tuesday. The Holy See Press … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Multiple sources are reporting that Pope Francis is planning on withdrawing Cardinal Raymond Burke’s Rome residence and salary because he sees him as working against the unity of the Church, although the Vatican has yet … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: The first of two general assemblies of the Synod on Synodality that was completed last month was, as expected, fraught with plenty of acrimony and contention. Eagerly awaited by some, thoroughly dreaded by others, the … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: Some years ago, an English friend shocked me by suggesting that the Coronation of a new British sovereign should be recognized as the eighth sacrament of the Church. I admired his patriotic zeal, but the theological … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus: In a striking personal intervention, Pope Francis has written a letter to four German Catholic laywomen who quit the German Synodal Way earlier this year. In the letter, published in the German newspaper Welt on … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: After a month of Vatican insistence on listening to all perspectives, it is ironic, to say the least, that the next big news story was the removal of an American bishop, apparently for talking too much. … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, was one of several U.S. bishops who spoke passionately in support this week of a proposal to name the 19th-century English cardinal St. John Henry Newman a “doctor of … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: As the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) wraps up its meeting in Baltimore, I see two encouraging signs. First, the American bishops joined with the bishops of England and Wales in asking Pope Francis to … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Joe Bukuras: The U.S. bishops voted Tuesday to advance the cause of beatification and canonization of Servant of God Isaac Thomas Hecker, a 19th-century American priest who founded the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, today … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: The House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) has rebuffed an effort to change the organization’s current stance in opposition to physician-assisted suicide, a development that drew praise from members of the Catholic … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Nicolás de Cárdenas: A week after desecrating and robbing a chapel in the Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, the thieves have sacramentally confessed and returned the stolen sacred objects. Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of the diocese made … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: To avoid any misunderstanding let me begin by saying that what follows is not a criticism of Pope Francis. It is a criticism of the Vatican press office. Last Monday at an audience with the Conference … Continue reading
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