With child tax credit stance, Manchin runs afoul of former faith allies
As Democrats struggle to revive talks over the stalled Build Back Better bill, Sen. Joe Manchin is facing pushback from religious groups frustrated by his support for work requirements for the child tax credit.
Your thoughts on NCR's 2021 newsmaker of the year
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our choice for 2021 Newsmaker of the Year, Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, who we called a “failed culture warrior.”
Mother Angelica on Receiving Correction with Love
Receiving correction hurts us right in the heart, but it’s the secret of holiness. I don’t mean you need to go around griping at people and letting everybody gripe at you. What I’m saying is that God Himself allows us to be corrected. What do you expect love to do? Love corrects! When your parents […]
An Anglican Use Success Story
Faithful Catholics weary of depressing headlines highlighting the fall in Mass attendance, papal persecution of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), weak bishops, and myriad liturgical abuses within the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, take heart. There are parishes out there that are seeing extraordinary growth by celebrating the majesty and beauty of the Mass […]
Missionaries of Charity evicted from property in northern India
MUMBAI, India – A group of Missionaries of Charity were evicted from a facility in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the latest move against the religious order founded by St. Mother Teresa. The religious sisters ran a children’s home in Kanpur Cantonment but were evicted by India’s Defense Department on Jan. 3. The […]
The Big Lie
Church Militant (a 501(c)4 corporation) is responsible for the content of this commentary. TRANSCRIPT Marxist Democrats have made about as much hay as possible — that they possibly can — by labeling the election theft “the big lie.” After thousands of hours and commentary and op-eds and talking heads, tens of millions of Americans remain completely unmoved, convinced (correctly) that […]
January 7, 2022
Chicago Cardinal Hugely Unpopular Petition to remove him reaches 60,000 signatures. FULL STORY Trump Denounces Vaccine Mandates States the federal overreach is out of control. FULL STORY Majority Still Like Trump 52% view him favorably. FULL STORY Australia Ousts Tennis Champ Claims he can’t come in without the jab. FULL STORY UK Parish Bans Unvaxxed Diocese says they shouldn’t. FULL STORY […]
A Martyred Saint’s Christmastime Poetry
Saint Robert Southwell, SJ, the English Jesuit priest, martyred during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, was a brilliant poet whose poetry seems inspired by his insights from prayer. Saint Robert Southwell lived in a time of great persecution of Catholics in England. It was illegal for Catholics to attend Mass and they were required […]
Monastery devastated by jihadists could soon return to being place of prayer and peace (Fides)
The Monastery of Saint Elian is a Syriac Catholic monastery in Al-Qaryatayn, a town of 14,000 in Homs Governorate in Syria (map). In 2015, ISIS demolished the 5th-century monastery and abducted its superior, Father Jacques Mourad; five months later, he escaped. In a recent interview with Fides, Father Mourad discussed his plans for rebuilding the […]
US bishops welcome world powers’ pledge to avoid nuclear conflict (USCCB)
Echoing a front-page Vatican newspaper op-ed, the USCCB has welcomed a joint statement by China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US on preventing nuclear war. Bishop David Malloy of Rockford (IL), chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, said that “this principled statement affirms ‘a nuclear war cannot be won […]