State of California sues pro-life pregnancy centers over abortion pill reversal drug
Abortion Pill Reversal seeks to counter the effects of the first progesterone-blocking abortion pill, providing an opportunity to save the unborn child. / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 25, 2023 / 13:48 pm (CNA). California… […]
England’s historic Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham gets new rector
The historic Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. / Credit: Norman Servais/EWTN Great Britain London, England, Sep 25, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). The Rev. Dr. Robert Billing became the next rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham, the … […]
Abducted priest in Nigeria released, diocese ‘grateful’
Father Marcellinus Obioma Okide was reportedly abducted from Nigeria’s Enugu Diocese on Sept. 17, 2023. / Credit: Enugu Diocese ACI Africa, Sep 25, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Enugu in Nigeria has expressed its gratitude to God and th… […]
“Something Needs to Change”: A Priest’s Solution to the Vocation Crisis Plaguing the United States
What could solve the vocation crisis in the United States? Father David Michael Moses of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston believes he has the solution: parents’ reverence for the Eucharist. In a video published to his official Instagram account, the Catholic speaker, musician, and parish priest stressed the need for parents to reverently receive and believe […]
The Church in Germany Is Going Through the Worst Crisis Since the Reformation
The archbishop warned against indifference to what is happening, which is why he wrote a letter to the president of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), Bishop Georg Bätzing, in February last year. “The danger is great that a misunderstood reform of Christianity will once again divide the Church and spread to neighboring countries,” he told […]
A Listening Church, But to Whom?
The trial of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, former substitute for the Vatican Secretariat of State, involved in the “London building” financial scandal, gives a bleak aspect of the functioning of the current Roman curia. Obviously, there is an intensive espionage culture there. As Vaticanist Ed Condon notes on the American site The Pillar, during the hearings […]
Pro-life hospice president calls legalized assisted suicide in Canada a ‘national horror’
‘We have reached the point where we must all protect each other from MAiD,’ Delta Hospice Society president Angelina Ireland said.
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In 1969, the year I was born, Joshua cracked the top 200 names for American boys for the first time since records began to be kept in 1880: #197. Forty years earlier, in 1929, Joshua had ranked #729, and the name started the 1960s well into the 400s. In my childhood, however, it became very […]
The Danger of Legitimizing Francis’s Synodal Church
“But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.” (Matthew 5:37) Almost two years ago, Francis opened his Synod on Synodality by telling the world that he intended to “create a different church”: “The Holy Spirit guides us where God wants us to be, […]
Thousands of Armenian Christians Flee Homes: ‘Mass Exodus Has Begun,’ Expert Says
HASMIK KHACHATRYAN A girl sleeps in a street in the town of Stepanakert on Sept. 25. Ethnic Armenian refugees began to leave Nagorno-Karabakh on Sept. 24. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Sunday that he expects most of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh to flee the region.