Is Elon Musk Coming to the Rescue?
Elon Musk is looking to take over Twitter, and everyone’s paying attention. Will his belief in free speech release the social media giant from its slavery to woke ideology? Will he be able to change Twitter’s censorious ways? While Catholics might be heartened by such news, it’s hard not to be suspicious of Musk. The […]
Artists and Abortion
Many artists have grappled with how to depict abortion. Ernest Hemingway wrote an entire short story about abortion, and poets like Gwendolyn Brooks and Anne Sexton have composed some truly brutal lines about their own experiences. Many musicians have channeled their pain and loss into powerful lyrics. But in the visual arts—aside from film—abortion has […]
Offer a more generous welcome to Ukrainians, US bishops urge Biden administration (USCCB)
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has welcomed Uniting for Ukraine, a Biden administration initiative that will allow up to 100,000 Ukrainians to enter the United States, but called on the administration and Congress to do more. “The program relies heavily on humanitarian parole, a mechanism in US immigration law that grants individuals authorization to […]
Priest stabbed in church in Nice, France (Reuters)
A priest, Father Christophe, was stabbed 20 times in the Saint-Pierre d’Arene church in Nice, France, by a man police described as “mentally unstable.” A nun who tried to stop the attack was also stabbed in the arm. In 2020, three people were killed in an Islamic terrorist attack at a different church in the […]
I am ready to do everything to stop the war: papal interview with Argentine newspaper (Vatican News)
In a Spanish-language interview with the Argentine newspaper La Nación, Pope Francis said that “the Vatican never rests” in its efforts to end the war in Ukraine. “I cannot tell you the details because they would cease to be diplomatic efforts. But the attempts will never stop.” The Pontiff also told La Nación’s Joaquín Morales […]
Pope to Patriarch Kirill: May we become peacemakers for Ukraine
Pope Francis sends his Easter greetings to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, and prays for the people of Ukraine as they long for a “new dawn that will end the darkness of war.” Read all
Pope Francis encourages Irish students to promote culture of encounter
Pope Francis spurs Catholic students from Queen’s University in Belfast to cultivate the culture of encounter so as to contribute to building up Ireland’s noble traditions of hospitality, reconciliation and fidelity to the Gospel. Read all
Pope: Too many people are still trapped in slavery
Pope Francis receives participants in the “International Trinitarian Solidarity“ conference in audience in the Vatican. During his discourse he points to the dramatic reality of their charism that promotes action against religious persecution and solidarity with victims of slavery, oppression, exclusion and persecution. Read all
Pope, in book preface, commends Honduran cardinal’s explanation of curial reform document (Vatican News)
Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras, the head of the Pope’s advisory Council of Cardinals, has written a book, “Praedicate Evangelium: A New Curia for a New Time,” on the new apostolic constitution on the Roman Curia. In the preface, Pope Francis praised the book, stating that it “adequately unravels the meaning and itinerary […]
A second ‘first bishop’ chosen for new diocese in Ecuador (Vatican Press Office)
On April 22, Pope Francis appointed a Polish missionary, Father Krzysztof Kudlawiec, as the first bishop to lead the Diocese of Caule, Ecuador. On February 2, Pope Francis created the Diocese of Caule from the territory of Archdiocese of Guayaquil. The Pontiff named an Italian missionary priest, Auxiliary Bishop Giovanni Battista Piccioli of Guayaquil, as […]