Syro-Malabar Church backs gov’t opposition to same-sex ‘marriage’ in case before India’s high court
The country’s Supreme Court has heard the case but has reserved judgment.
Remembering and reflecting on Joseph Ratzinger’s Gospel of Love
It is no easy thing to sum up the thought of a man whose academic and ecclesial career spans some of the most tumultuous and epochal recent historical events in Church and world, whose written […]
Jesus Lives His Life Again in Us
Today’s readings deepen our understanding of the mystery of Easter: Christ rose from the dead to live His life again in us. Gospel (Read Jn 14:15-21) Today we continue in Jesus’ Last Supper Discourse with the Twelve. He is speaking forthrightly to His friends about an imminent change in their three-year jaunt with the itinerant Teacher. Here we […]
Syro-Malabar Church backs gov’t opposition to same-sex ‘marriage’ in case before India’s high court
The country’s Supreme Court has heard the case but has reserved judgment.Read More
5th Sunday after Easter: Lies
We continue with this year’s task, our dive into the Epistle, the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite. We began this Eastertide with readings from 1 Peter. As we draw nearer to the Feast of the Ascension we hear from St. James the Lesser through his Letter. […]
Disastrous Eucharistic Revival: A Shrewd Swindle?
TRANSCRIPT In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. bishops launched a national Eucharistic revival campaign, which will culminate next summer (July, specifically) in Indianapolis. They are concerned now, not decades ago, with a decided lack of belief in the real presence of Our Blessed Lord in the Eucharist. Recent polls continue to show most Catholics […]
Love Prepares Us for the Coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
FRANK WILLIAM WARWICK TOPHAM, ‘A THANK OFFERING,’ 1884 User’s Guide to the Sixth Sunday of Easter
UK birth of ‘three-parent baby’ came at a high moral cost, Catholic bioethicists warn
Illustration of eight-cell embryo. / Shutterstock Denver, Colo., May 11, 2023 / 14:50 pm (CNA). Catholic ethicists greeted the news that the first U.K. baby has been born after being conceived via a “three-parent” embryo modification technique … […]
In swing-state Virginia, pro-life attorney general opts not to support abortion pill lawsuit
null / ivanko80/Shutterstock Washington D.C., May 11, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). While many Republicans are backing a lawsuit to strike down the FDA’s approval of an abortion pill, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has refused to get involved… […]
What it’s like for the Church in Venezuela, a country in social and economic crisis
Luis Vildoso participates in a meeting of young people of the Araure project, in Venezuela (2023). / Credit: Courtesy of ACN ACI Prensa Staff, May 11, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Luis Vildoso, project manager for the pontifical foundation Aid to the… […]