The Post-COVID Catholic Church
How has COVID impacted the Catholic Church? What will the Church look like in the coming years? Eric Sammons looks at recent data and contemplates the future of the Church. Links: • Pillar Special report: Who we are, and what we believe • Pillar Special report: Why Catholics leave; why Catholics stay • Pillar Special report: The Covid […]
Business magazine editor Steve Forbes rips Biden’s vax mandate, says Supreme Court will ‘rightly’ toss it out
‘Politics, not public health, is the dominating factor here,’ Forbes said, arguing that the federal edict, which would impact some 84 million Americans, ‘would set a dreadful precedent.’
Fr. Altman torches US bishops at rally: ‘Repent and resign … your mitre is your great millstone’
The suspended priest ripped the hierarchy for their handling of clerical sex abuse, COVID-19 mandates and lockdowns.
Cardinal Mahony Attacks Fellow Bishops in an Interview Published by Vatican News Service Ahead of USCCB Vote
CNA USCCB Fall Meeting 2021 Despite the interview’s headline, Cardinal Mahony makes no call for “dialogue” with his brother bishops.
Synod on synodality should not avoid problems, archbishop says in homily
Synodal unity is not “based on the avoidance of sensitive or painful problems,” Baltimore Archbishop William Lori said in his homily for the opening Mass of the U.S. bishops’ fall meeting.
Sex abuse survivors urge bishops to denounce Church Militant's agenda
In a Nov. 16 news conference, the organization Ending Clergy Abuse called on the U.S. prelates meeting in Baltimore to focus less on who can take Communion and instead do more to end abuses by clergy.
Adele was the soundtrack to my coming of age. But she lost me in her glitzy ‘One Night Only’ special.
Whereas once Adele’s music and persona exuded humility and a sort of selflessness, “One Night Only” showed me a version of the singer who has branched away from my own experiences, someone who has become so embedded in the cultural exclusivity of Hollywood that she is no longer relatable.
Pope Francis’ nuncio addresses U.S. bishops on abortion, racism and the Eucharist: ‘A divided church will never lead people.’
Archbishop Christophe Pierre spoke to the U.S. bishops Nov. 16 about the importance of listening to people in the church and being open to the work of the Holy Spirit.
Iraqi Christian leaders hope to continue building on pope’s March visit
ANKAWA, Iraq (CNS) — Nahla and Valentina like to stop and pray at Mar Elia Chaldean Catholic Church in the center of this small majority Christian community. The grounds of the church once sheltered several hundred Christians who were forced to flee their homes in 2014 when Islamic State militants attacked Mosul and surrounding villages […]
King Richard
NEW YORK (CNS) — Will Smith aces it in “King Richard” (Warner Bros.). His vivid performance as the father of not one but two future tennis greats energizes this intriguing fact-based sports drama while the script, penned by Zach Baylin, promotes an array of positive values. The stars in question are, of course, Venus (Saniyya […]