Category: News

NCR, Edward Pentin: A quarterly magazine that seeks to defend and promote Western Christian civilization and is known for its Catholic sympathies has been removed by a major U.K. bookstore chain on account of its criticism of the same-sex agenda and … Continue reading →

CNA, Zelda Caldwell: Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, and the oldest and longest-serving head of state in the world, died at the age of 96 Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after a brief illness. Report … Continue reading →

The Pillar, Anatolii Babynski : Archbishop Ihor Isichenko is an unusual bishop. He is a formidable intellectual and serious literary scholar. He has been a leader among Ukrainian Orthodox believers for more than two decades. And seven years ago, he began … Continue reading →

CNA, Joe Bukuras: The pastor of St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Gibbsboro, New Jersey, is praying that the parish’s Our Lady of Fatima statue — which was stolen last week — is returned before the celebration of the Nativity … Continue reading →

CNA, AC Wimmer: A diocese in the Netherlands says it will no longer offer Mass every Sunday in its parishes. Instead, the Diocese of Roermond, in the country’s south, informed parishes in a letter of moving toward offering Mass only every other … Continue reading →

CNA, Courtney Mares: Pope Francis beatified John Paul I, who reigned as pope for only 33 days, amid a thunderstorm in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday. In his homily for the rainy beatification Mass on Sept. 4, Pope Francis said that … Continue reading →

CNA, Francesca Pollio Fenton: Jessica Hanna, a mother of four, was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer when she was 14 weeks pregnant. Several doctors advised her to have an abortion but she declined, choosing life instead. In an interview with EWTN … Continue reading →

CNA, Hannah Brockhaus: Pope Francis has revoked the titles of the Order of Malta’s four High Offices, established a provisional government, and convened an extraordinary general chapter for January 2023. The Sept. 3 decree is the latest step in the reform … Continue reading →

NCR, Joan Frawley Desmond: WASHINGTON — When Pope Francis announced last year that the Synod of Bishops would shift its focus from more traditional topics, like evangelization, to tackle the very meaning of synodality itself, the Vatican rolled out plans for … Continue reading →

NCR, Matthew McDonald: GREENWICH, Conn. — A Connecticut public school administrator said he doesn’t hire Catholics or conservatives as teachers and that he designs questions during interviews to ferret them out, according to an undercover video published by Project Veritas. The … Continue reading →

CNA, Hannah Brockhaus: A new cardinal and the Vatican’s prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy said his role is to encourage priests and help them live lives based on the Word of God. “My role is to encourage priests — … Continue reading →

CNA: The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday upholding the dismissal of a Catholic school teacher who had contracted a same-sex marriage. “Religious freedom protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution encompasses the right of religious institutions ‘to decide … Continue reading →

National Catholic Register: This article originally appeared Nov. 27, 2015, at the Register. With the Little Sisters of the Poor the focus of religious freedom threats recently, I was curious to know more about the order. St. Jeanne Jugan is the foundress of the Little … Continue reading →

National Catholic Register, Joseph Pearce: In my confused, impetuous and misspent youth I believed, with the arrogance of ignorance, that I knew the answers to all the most important questions in life. The world’s problems could be solved politically and economically. … Continue reading →