Tabernacle, with Eucharist inside, stolen from Maryland Catholic church
Church pews / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 30, 2022 / 13:36 pm (CNA). A tabernacle with the Blessed Sacrament located inside, along with other church belongings, was stolen from Catholic church in Hydes, Maryland, between the nig… […]
UK parliament makes at-home medical abortion policy permanent
Pregnancy Test. / Flickr/Ernesto Andrade. London, England, Mar 30, 2022 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Members of the U.K. parliament voted Wednesday to make permanent a policy adopted during the coronavirus pandemic that allows women to self-administer bot… […]
Pope’s Wednesday Audience: “An old age spent awaiting God’s visit will not miss his passage”…
Pope Francis today cited the elderly examples of Simeon and Anna, who waited to see the Lord at the Presentation in the Temple. The Holy Father talked of the patient and persistent pair during his General Audience in Paul VI Hall as he continued his catecheses on old age. “Their reason for living, before taking […]
From Dr. Matthew Minerd, here’s a clear overview of Catholic ‘just war’ teaching and the war in Ukraine…
The war in Ukraine has awakened the world to the horrors of war and humanitarian plight. Attached to this “awakening” are deep questions of moral theology and Catholic social teaching. To assist our readers to navigate these questions, I reached out to Dr. Matthew Minerd, professor of philosophy and moral theology at the Byzantine Catholic […]
Military preparedness is not a sin…
The editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, Andrea Tornielli, has deplored the tendency “to contextualize and downplay” Pope Francis’ statements against war. His remarks distinguish between the right of Ukraine to resist armed aggression and the larger need to turn away from a competitive arms race that absorbs massive amounts of money which…
If we keep up a conversation with Jesus and are responsive to the graces of the Holy Spirit, He will always plead our cause…..
In the rough and tumble of political elections, politicians use opposition research to help craft their campaign strategies. There may be nothing offensive in bringing to light an opponent’s record. But the revelations may violate the Eighth Commandment, when deliberate distortions or unnecessary disclosures unjustly smear an adversary…
The 50 most filmed streets in the United States…
American Home Shield’s study found that nine out of the 10 most filmed streets are in NYC or LA. And 44 out of the top 50 are in the states of California or New York…
Why the middle one-third of France is almost empty…
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Archdiocese of Denver investigates supposed miraculous blood on St. Michael statue, finds it ‘similar to red nail polish’…
After having a chemical analysis performed on swabs used to clean alleged blood from a local woman’s statue of St. Michael the Archangel, the Archdiocese of Denver has determined the red liquid was not blood. Alicia Martinez, 57, of Broomfield, Colorado, a Denver suburb, said that her St. Michael statue began Feb. 23 to emit […]
Have we lost our hunger for the Bread of Life?
There is a moment in Holy Mass to which, I suspect, not a few of us older Catholics these days are drawn. It comes during the First Eucharistic Prayer, that most ancient and august expression of Catholic worship, when the priest, addressing God directly, asks that He remember all those who have come together to […]