Eucharist film again in US theaters for one day only

“ALIVE: Who is there?” is a new documentary about personal encounters with the Eucharist. / Hakuna Films/Bosco Films Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 27, 2022 / 15:23 pm (CNA). A film highlighting the transformative power of the Euchari… […]

Pentecost Novena: Here’s how to pray the first novena

Duccio’s Pentecost (1308) / public domain Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 27, 2022 / 16:00 pm (CNA). The first novena ever prayed is the Pentecost Novena, or the Novena to the Holy Spirit. This year, it begins on Friday, May 27, and concludes on Saturday, June 4. Catholics worldwide often recite the novena during the nine […]

A Pacific paradise, lost to China?

Americans who have heard of the Solomon Islands might think first of US Marines fighting imperial Japanese forces on Guadalcanal in 1942. Had Japan won, it would have cut off Australia and New Zealand from […]

Stalin’s patriarchate

While the pope might consider it self-evident that ‘we are not state clerics’, the Russian church has acted as a state church for centuries

Pray the Pentecost Novena

public domain Duccio’s ‘Pentecost’ (1308) The prayer recalls and invites Catholics to participate in the nine days that the Blessed Virgin Mary and the apostles spent in prayer after Christ ascended into heaven.

Our Marriage is Over. I Want a Divorce.

Read the last chapter before this one Table of Contents Start reading from chapter 1 Chapter 21   Malthus my boy,   I had my doubts about you, Malthus, and throughout this process I did not think you would secure the family as you have. But, you have surprised us all and now stand in […]