In your charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of Sarah Grant, wife of Ryan Grant, owner of Mediatrix Press and frequent guest on Brother André Marie’s RECONQUEST radio show. She died Sunday after a short battle with … Continue reading
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By the numbers: How the Catholic Church has changed during Pope Francis’ pontificate
Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: Pope Francis was elected to the papacy 10 years ago, on March 13, 2013. How has the worldwide Catholic Church changed since then? Statistically speaking, the Church has grown, keeping pace with and even exceeding … Continue reading
Journalists at EWTN/Franciscan conference discuss media bias in the internet age
Catholic News Agency, Tyler Arnold: “What is the nature of journalism? What are we getting right and what are we getting wrong?” Father Dave Pivonka, the president of Franciscan University, inquired during the opening speech at a conference jointly hosted … Continue reading
German Synodal Way approves same-sex blessings, lay preaching, and reexamination of priestly celibacy
Catholic News Agency, Jonathan Liedl: The German Synodal Way has voted to adopt “implementation texts” related to same-sex blessings, lay preaching during Mass, and a request for Pope Francis to reexamine the discipline of priestly celibacy in the Latin-rite Catholic … Continue reading
Please, not another ‘program’ for evangelization
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: At his Wednesday public audience this week, Pope Francis compared Vatican II with the first council of the young Church, the Council of Jerusalem. Both councils, the Pope remarked, issued a call to evangelize the world. … Continue reading
‘Space Acknowledges the Presence of Christ’: The Story Behind the Transformation of Thomas Aquinas College’s Chapel Dedicated to Our Mother
National Catholic Register, Joseph Pronechen: Not many college chapels that originated as a Protestant chapel have been transformed into a beautiful Catholic one. Nor have many beautiful chapels received a major award for their transformation. The exception is Our Mother … Continue reading
Who Are the New Cardinal Members of Pope Francis’ Advisory Council?
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Pope Francis’ appointment today of five new cardinals to advise him on Church governance aims to both rejuvenate the group he set up in 2013 to reform the Roman Curia and drive forward his vision … Continue reading
‘Abortion doula’ at Notre Dame speaker series adds to Catholic concern
Catholic News Agency, Kevin J. Jones: In the wake of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision overturning the pro-abortion rights Roe v. Wade ruling, several bodies at the University of Notre Dame are hosting an event series dedicated to “reproductive justice.” The … Continue reading
International group launches proposal to ban surrogacy worldwide
Catholic News Agency, Solène Tadié: A group of lawyers, doctors, psychologists, and others from five continents gathered in Casablanca, Morocco, on March 3 to call for the repeal of all laws allowing or tolerating surrogacy around the world. The group … Continue reading
The Meat of the Matter: St. Patrick’s Day and the Lenten Fast
National Catholic Register, Matthew McDonald: St. Patrick died during Lent. Which year isn’t certain. But for one of the leading candidates (A.D. 461), March 17 was a Friday. And while Easter is a moveable feast, St. Patrick’s Day is always … Continue reading
Brazilian Charity Caring for Children Who Survived Abortions Issues Urgent Appeal
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: A Brazilian charity that cares for disabled and abandoned children, most of whom survived abortion attempts, is appealing for help after a devastating flood damaged its primary care home last year. Antonio Carlos Tavares de … Continue reading
Will other bishops answer Paprocki’s challenge?
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: From my personal perspective, the this week’s stunning First Things essay by Bishop Paprocki is easily the most important news story of the young year: a development that I have anxiously awaited for years. For far … Continue reading
In the Beginning Are the Words: Logos, Language and Liberty
National Catholic Register, Joseph Pearce: One of the most powerful lessons that Tolkien teaches in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is that the things possessed can possess the possessor. This addictive possessiveness, or what might be called … Continue reading
Bishop Paprocki pens essay imagining ‘heretical’ cardinals, quoting San Diego’s McElroy
Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, on Tuesday published an essay in which he quotes the words of Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as one of two “examples” of views contrary to a “truth … Continue reading
Pro-life OB-GYNs are banned from hosting exhibit booth at medical conference
Catholic News Agency, Kevin J. Jones: An association of pro-life obstetricians has literally been canceled by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). For the past 15 years, the group has had an exhibit booth at the annual conference … Continue reading
