Spanish foundation cancels event featuring Archbishop Gänswein (Vida Nueva (Spanish))
The Spanish University Foundation (FUE) has announced that a program scheduled for October 18, featuring Archbishop Georg Gänswein, “has been suspended for organizational reasons.” The event had been organized to mark the 30th anniversary of the day when then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger visited FUE headquarters to present the new Catechism of the Catholic Church. The foundation […]
Colombian archbishop: Synod cannot endorse same-sex blessings (CNA)
The Synod on Synodality “cannot remove pages from the Bible,” notes Archbishop José Gomez Rodriguez of Manizales, Colombia. In an interview with ACI Prensa, the Colombian archbishop said that the Church cannot and will not approve blessings for homosexual unions. He said that some media accounts have misinterpreted a statement by Pope Francis, who does […]
Pope to join UN climate conference in Dubai in November? (Pillar)
Pope Francis is seriously considering an invitation to take part in the UN climate-change conference, COP28, in Dubai in November, The Pillar reports. The Pontiff devoted a major portion of his recent apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, to the prospects for the COP28 conference. Sources at the Secretariat of State told The PIllar that an invitation […]
Christians in Gaza choosing to stay (CatholicVote)
Christians in Gaza City have chosen to remain there, despite an Israeli call to evacuate the city, reports Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzabella, the Latin-rite Patriarch of Jerusalem. The Christian families in the city—about 1,200 people—have sought safety in church facilities, the cardinal said. To date none has been killed, although a few have been injured. Cardinal […]
Zambia: Mansa Diocese celebrates the care and protection of Mother Earth.
Mansa Diocese in Zambia this week celebrated the year-long diocesan pastoral theme of Care and Protection of Mother Earth. Read all
St. Ignatius of Antioch saw that the Eucharist transforms and unites us, so that we may truly be Christians…
Sometime early in the second century, St Ignatius, the bishop of Antioch in Syria, was arrested and marched to Rome. The Emperor at the time was Trajan, whose correspondence with Pliny, a Roman governor in what is now northern Turkey, reveals his attitude toward Christians. Trajan did not take seriously the more unsavory rumors circulating […]
Another synod, another buzzword: Will ‘Synodality’ go the way of ‘New Evangelization?’…
As the Synod of Bishops on Synodality continues to unfold in Rome this month, it’s increasingly reminiscent of another synod just over a decade ago: The Synod of Bishops on New Evangelization, which took place under Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. Those similarities are already matters of record. What remains to be seen is whether […]
Incompetent governance is not the exception, but the rule: here’s why
Since all fiscal discipline went by the board during the financial crisis of 2008, the US has suffered a departure of common sense from public affairs.Read More
Why is Gov. Youngkin wasting $1.4 million to assure voters he supports 97% of abortions?
Embracing a ‘Democrats-lite’ position on abortion won’t help Youngkin, the Virginia GOP, or unborn babies.
Protestant leader denounces Pope Francis-endorsed, pro-homosexual biblical commentary
The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century boasts a forward by Pope Francis and received a nihil obstat and imprimatur from Cardinal Blase Cupich’s Archdiocese of Chicago despite contradicting Catholic teaching on homosexuality.