Catholic News Agency, Courtney Mares: A Catholic priest burned to death on Sunday after bandits set fire to his parish rectory in northern Nigeria. The body of Father Isaac Achi was found among the charred parish building of Saints Peter … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, CNA Staff: The executive committee of the Argentine Bishops’ Conference invited the country’s faithful to celebrate “with joy and fervor” the 10th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis as the successor of St. Peter. Cardinal Jorge … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: About twenty years ago, in a series of email messages, the late Father Paul Mankowski and I exchanged arguments against the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. This was a private conversation, at first, and since we … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: The Vatican promoter of justice announced Monday that the investigation into the vanishing of Emanuela Orlandi, a teenaged Vatican citizen whose disappearance in the 1980s has since spawned myriad conspiracy theories, will be reopened. Report is … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Cardinal George Pell has died in Rome this evening at the age of 81. The Australian cardinal had been admitted to a Rome hospital for routine hip replacement surgery on Tuesday afternoon. Report is here.
Catholic News Agency, Hannah Brockhaus: Pope Francis on Friday issued a document reorganizing the Vicariate of Rome in what he called a time of “epochal change.” The apostolic constitution, In Ecclesiarum Communione, replaces a 1998 constitution promulgated by Pope John … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Jonah McKeown: For the third year in a row, a Catholic podcast has bolted out of the gate after New Year’s Day to become the No. 1 most popular on Apple Podcasts, beating out secular podcasts from … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, CNA Staff: The excavation site of the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem, the place where Jesus restored sight to a blind man, will be open to the public for the first time. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Shortly before Pope Benedict XVI made his apostolic visit to the United States in 2008, EWTN commissioned German philosopher Raphaela Schmid and myself to film and produce The Papacy of Reason — Inside the Mind … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Joe Burkuras: The altar of an Arkansas Benedictine monastery was destroyed Thursday, and several relics of ancient saints were stolen. Subiaco Abbey in Subiaco, Arkansas, said in a press release that on Jan. 5, a man using … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Andrea Gagliarducci: There is no doubt that the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Jan. 5 was a pope’s funeral. Not only was the funeral rite the one foreseen for the death of a pope, but … Continue reading
CNU, Robert Steuteville: Many thousands of churches are being abandoned in North America as worship communities become geographically dissipated, often spread over large metropolitan areas. Some parishioners of St. Joseph Shrine, a historic Catholic Church just northeast of downtown Detroit, believe … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: One of the late Pope Benedict XVI’s most notable achievements was to create a personal ordinariate for Anglicans whereby members of the Anglican Communion could enter the Catholic Church while retaining their heritage and liturgy. … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Peter Pinedo: A special Christmas “Bethlehem Bells” exhibit at the Museum of the Bible is bringing the Holy Land to Washington, D.C. The bronze bells that once graced the ancient Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem have traveled from … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency, Kelsey Wicks, Jonah McKeown: As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s personal secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein became a well-known presence in the Catholic world, especially since Benedict’s resignation in 2013. The 65-year-old German not only spoke on Benedict’s behalf … Continue reading
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