Nicaraguan dictatorship confiscates convent of sisters it abducted and expelled (CNA)
Government forces “like criminals broke into the house of the Sisters of the Fraternity of the Poor Ones of Jesus Christ,” said Martha Patrica Molina, a Nicaraguan attorney who documents the persecution of the Church there.
‘We forgive and ask for forgiveness’: Polish, Ukrainian prelates recall 80th anniversary of massacre (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
Leading Polish and Ukrainian prelates met to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Volhynia massacre, in which the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed an estimated 100,000 Poles.
Ethiopian Orthodox leaders apologize for failures in Tigray War (Addis Standard)
The Tigray War, which began in 2020 and concluded in 2022, pitted the Ethiopian government against the regional government in Tigary.
Future Portuguese cardinal on World Youth Day: ‘We don’t want to convert the young people to Christ’ (CNA)
Auxiliary Bishop Américo Alves Aguiar of Lisbon, 49, is among the 21 new cardinals announced by Pope Francis on July 9.
Pope Pius I’s devotion to Christ’s precious blood is a lesson on Eucharistic reverence
The saintly Pope Pius I prescribed penances for irreverence towards the previous blood in the Mass.
The Bad Samaritan
You are traveling along the treacherous road from Jerusalem to Jericho, and you happen upon a man lying in the ditch, bleeding to death. You are moved to compassion. In fact, you tell everyone around that that is what you are feeling. So, you get down off your mule. You take a skin of wine […]
10 of the Best Cities in America to Raise a Catholic Family
In an era in which America is becoming an increasingly anti-Catholic place to live, Catholics desperately need to be supported by a strong Catholic community in order to live out their faith. For some, the community in which they were born supplies that need. However, for many others there exists a desire to find a […]
ANALYSIS: How to Interpret Pope Francis’ Choice of New Cardinals
Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti with Pope Francis With this consistory, Pope Francis has ‘armored’ the College of Cardinals for several years with red hats appointed by him.
“Simplicity of design was essential for Notre-Dame”
Exclusive interview with Guillaume Bardet, the French artist commissioned to design the liturgical furnishings for Paris’s world renown gothic cathedral
A challenge for the Church
The liturgical furniture project for the world famous French cathedral, Notre-Dame de Paris