Catholic News Agency, Tyler Arnold, Joe Bukuras: Sen. Josh Hawley engaged in a tense exchange with FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday after the release of the report that found the agency’s investigation into traditional Catholics may be more expansive than … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Tyler Arnold: In preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year, two of the massive entry doors at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., have been sealed. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Daniel Payne: Pope Francis has added his signature to an “interfaith statement” meant to call attention to what the Holy Father and other advocates say is the ongoing crisis of climate change threatening much of the world. The … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Daniel Payne: Climate activists in Italy over the weekend disrupted a Mass celebrated by Turin Archbishop Roberto Repole, with the demonstrators reading from Pope Francis’ works on the environment during the incident. Activists with the climate group … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Matt McDonald: Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a swing vote who became a key part of the court’s longtime abortion-supporting majority, died Friday. She was 93 and had been suffering from dementia for several … Continue reading
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
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