Would Jesus care about the Phoenix priest's baptismal mistakes?
Perspective: Does our eternal salvation and baptism in Christ really depend on a holy and well-intentioned priest saying “I” instead of “we?”
Warning to bishops: Please make sure the Eucharistic Congress isn't a very expensive boondoggle
About 600,000 Catholics joined the eucharistic procession ending the 1926 International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago. The U.S. bishops are planning the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress in a different world.
Dr. Paul Farmer, aka 'kenosis man,' emptied himself in love and service to others
Appreciation: The late public health pioneer Paul Farmer is remembered by his spiritual director as a model of love and compassion for all of humanity. She asks, “Really, is it any wonder that his heart gave out?”
The beginning of a new cycle of armed conflicts in Europe?
Professor of diplomatic and strategic history says peace and democracy have to be defended
Prudence Helps Us to Live with Certainty
Human certainty comes from what we can really know, but in practical matters there are a lot of unknowns. Real certainty is found within those limits, within the terms set for us by our actual lives. When it comes to limits, we first have to be reconciled to the inscrutability of human affairs. In a […]
The University of the Blessed Virgin Mary
In the year 1665 a young scientist at Cambridge University by the name of Isaac Newton took a glass prism and placed it in the path of a sunbeam. The white light scattered into an array of the seven colors of the rainbow. Newton showed that white light is not simply white light but an […]
Pope: Zayed Award, a step forward on common journey of fraternity
Pope Francis congratulates the three recipients of the 2022 Zayed Award for Human Fraternity in a video message and invites them to continue in efforts on the path toward human fraternity. Read all
We will not abandon the Ukrainian people
In the wake of the Russian invasion, many Ukrainians feel abandoned. But as the war continues, there has also been an eruption of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, from Europe and around the world. The Pope has called for a day dedicated to closeness with the suffering of the Ukrainian people: “God is with the […]
Pope Francis receives representatives on Iraqi Churches
Meeting a delegation of Iraqi Church religious leaders on Monday, Pope Francis encourages the local Christian communities to continue promoting dialogue so as to build fraternity and counteract extremism and fundamentalism. Read all
‘They pray all day long’: How religious sisters are helping people in need amid the Ukraine conflict
Religious sisters in Ukraine deliver supplies from Caritas. / Private archive. Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Feb 28, 2022 / 05:40 am (CNA). For Sister Franciszka Tumanevych, the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion was the most difficult. The 42-year-old member of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth told CNA that fear spread in Zhytomyr, […]