Category: News

Catholic News Agency, Peter Pinedo: Wenceslaus I is known by many titles: king, warrior, saint. Yet he is by far most popularly known as “Good King Wenceslas” in one of the most beloved Christmas carols of the 20th century. During … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts football team, announced this week that he is donating $5 million to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago in honor of his late cousin, Sister Joyce Dura. Irsay, … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Julieta Villar: On Saturday, Oct. 7, the date on which the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the fourth edition of the worldwide Men’s Rosary will take place with more than 40 countries … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Madeleine Teahan: Pope Francis has awarded a U.K. church “co-cathedral status,” making it the first of its kind in the history of the British Isles. The Church of St. Mary of the Isle, located in Douglas on … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Daniel Payne: A German family that has lived in the United States for more than a decade after leaving their home country in order to legally home-school their children faces possible deportation next month, their supporters said. The … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, AC Wimmer: A Swiss bishop called for the end of mandatory priestly celibacy and for the ordination of women in an interview published Sunday, just days ahead of his participation at the Synod on Synodality in Rome … Continue reading →

Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: “The Rupnik business will stain Pope Francis’s legacy, and possibly define it,” writes Christopher Altieri in Catholic World Report. The evidence is there— no doubt about that— and give Altieri due credit for making the case. … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Anna Kurian: With over 1,500 years of history, the Abbey of Saint-Maurice in the Valais region of Switzerland is the oldest monastery in the West to have remained in continuous operation since its foundation in 515. The … Continue reading →

National Catholic Register, Andrew Fowler: Upon an initial glance, Barbara Motter’s needlework portrait depicts an idyllic scene of rustic, rolling hills and the valley of Emmitsburg, Maryland, providing a snapshot into early-19th-century life. In center frame is the “White House” … Continue reading →

National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: The archbishop of Europe’s largest archdiocese in terms of number of Catholic faithful has been criticized for releasing pastoral guidelines that appear to define homosexual attraction as love, and equating them to heterosexual relationships with … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus: Two bishops from mainland China and Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia of the Pontifical Academy for Life are among several additions to who will participate in the Synod on Synodality assembly next month. The leadership of the … Continue reading →

Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: Would you be alarmed if I told you that the federal government, by administrative decree, had just added $100,000 to your mortgage? No, let me be more accurate, to illustrate my point. The added debt would … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus: The blood of the martyr St. Januarius again liquefied in Naples on Tuesday. “We have just taken from the safe the reliquary with the blood of our patron saint, which immediately completely liquefied,” the abbot of … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Anna Farrow: The appointment of a medical aid in dying (MAiD) provider as interim clinical director of palliative care at a Catholic hospital in Ontario has provoked renewed concern about the future of Catholic health care in … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Kevin J. Jones: A 19-year-old U.K. woman with a rare disease has died during a legal fight to circumvent a ruling that she was not competent to make decisions about her care, despite her desire to go … Continue reading →