Category: News

Catholic News Agency, Tyler Arnold: A New Hampshire man was charged with the murder of a pregnant woman and her unborn child, which is the first time the state’s fetal homicide law has ever been invoked. William Kelly, 38, was … Continue reading →

Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: Could we take another look at the stunning results of the Irish referenda held earlier this month? The resignation of Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Vardkar, who acknowledged that he had badly misjudged the public mood, underlines … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Nathália Queiroz: “My secret, my great secret, is to pray,” said Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest nun in the world at 115 years of age. “I pray the rosary every day for all the people around … Continue reading →

Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: Pope Francis frequently scolds the “doctors of the law,” the legalists, the clericalists. But his autobiography Life: My Story Through History shows that he fits into those categories himself. While the book is scheduled for publication … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Walter Sanchez Silva: The Vatican has determined that nothing prevents the opening of the cause for canonization of Niña Ruiz-Abad, a 13-year-old girl who died in 1993 in the Philippines and whose grave has become a place … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Andrea Gagliarducci: The most recent change in the College of Cardinals took place on Feb. 24, when Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán turned 80 and was thus removed from the ranks of cardinal-electors. A few weeks earlier, … Continue reading →

Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: What happened in Ireland last week? The government strongly supported a pair of proposed constitutional amendments. The major political parties supported them. The media, the corporate elite, the liberal intelligentsia all supported them. But the people … Continue reading →

National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: The Coptic Orthodox Church has confirmed that its decision last week to suspend dialogue with the Catholic Church was due to Rome’s “change of position” on homosexuality. In a video released on Friday, Coptic Orthodox spokesman … Continue reading →

National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: A Vatican document on the theme of “human dignity” is almost complete and will be published early next month, the prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has confirmed. Cardinal Victor … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Courtney Mares: On the eve of the 750th anniversary of St. Thomas Aquinas’ death, a skull revered as a relic of St. Thomas Aquinas was carried in a solemn procession through the cobblestone streets of the southern … Continue reading →

National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: The Criminal Court of Rome has cleared a British Catholic layman of all charges concerning the acquisition of an 800-year-old monastery earmarked for use as a “gladiator school” for future politicians, to be headed by … Continue reading →

National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Russia’s Catholic bishops and members of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Bibilical-Theological commission have criticized Fiducia Supplicans, Pope Francis’ declaration allowing the blessing of same-sex couples and others in “irregular relationships.” In a March 1 statement … Continue reading →

Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: The story is appalling, yet I can’t help finding a comic aspect to the German bishops’ announcement that Bishop Ludger Schepers “will be the representative for queer pastoral care.” On first reading that announcement, I assumed … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Walter Sanchez Silva: In March 2022, the late Cardinal George Pell published an at the time anonymous critique of Pope Francis’ pontificate under the pseudonym “Demos.” Now another cardinal, who identifies himself as “Demos II,” has published another anonymous … Continue reading →

National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Reports have circulated for several years now of Catholic priests being told to cease saying private Masses by themselves and celebrate with other priests instead, a practice called concelebration. In 2021, for example, the Vatican … Continue reading →