Category: News

Catholic News Agency, Kevin J. Jones: A Texas man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of his aborted unborn child. The lawsuit seeks more than $1 million from each of the three women the man says helped his … Continue reading →

Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus: A Catholic order of knighthood has signed a leasing agreement that will allow a Four Seasons hotel to manage part of a historic building close to the Vatican. The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre … Continue reading →

Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: In an interview posted today, Cardinal Pietro Parolin expressed opposition to the German bishops’ decision to offer blessings for same-sex unions. So far, so good. But the reasons that the Vatican Secretary of State gave for … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →