LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2023: #11
There are some 1,378,000,000 Catholics on Planet Earth today. They live in almost every imaginable cultural, social, economic, and political circumstance. They manifest their Catholicism in distinctive ways. The vast majority of them are the lay faithful. Given those numbers and that extraordinary diversity, the claim that the “whole Church is gathered in Synod,” so […]
Georgia Supreme Court upholds ‘heartbeat’ law banning abortion
Gold dome of Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. Via Shutterstock. / null Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 16:40 pm (CNA). The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday upheld the state’s “heartbeat” law that bans abortion at six weeks and recognize… […]
Catholic anti-death penalty group hosts discussion featuring death row exonerees
Panelists (from left) Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan Jr., Debra Milke, and Randal Padgett at an Oct. 23, 2023, Catholic Mobilizing Network event at Xavier University’s Bellarmine Chapel in Cincinnati. / Credit: Catholic Mobilizing Network CNA Staff, Oc… […]
20 martyrs of persecution during Spanish Civil War to be beatified
The archbishop of Seville, Spain, José Ángel Saiz Meneses, and his auxiliary, Bishop Teodoro León Muñoz, at a press conference announcing the Nov. 18, 2023, beatification of the Spanish martyrs. / Credit: Archdiocese of Seville ACI Prensa Staff… […]
Blitzing the Bishops
TRANSCRIPT In 2017, when the Vatican secretary of state endorsed and approved an article being published in a well-read journal attacking Church Militant for somehow aligning with evangelicals to establish a theocracy in America, it was total garbage. However, we must give a tip of the hat to the Marxists in Rome, namely, Fr. Anthony Spadaro, […]
Pope Francis to Catholic LGBTQ leader: ‘Thank you for your ministry’
Stan “JR” Zerkowski received a handwritten note from Pope Francis in October 2023. / Credit: JR Zerkowski/Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2023 / 18:56 pm (CNA). A Kentucky man involved in LGBTQ Catholic ministry has posted a letter online he says he received earlier this month from Pope Francis thanking him for his work. […]
Judge allows defense to call jailed pro-lifers to testify in third DC FACE Act trial
In an unexpected move during pro-lifer Paulette Harlow’s trial, Joan Andrew Bell and Jean Marshall will be brought to the courtroom on Wednesday from the Alexandria Detention Center, where they have been incarcerated since their own trial in mid-September.
Bishop lauds imprisoned pro-lifer Joan Bell for ‘inspiring life and dedication’ to protecting the unborn
Bishop Kevin Sweeney said the 74-year-old’s ‘voice, example, and witness, are worthy of our consideration’ and called on Catholics to ‘pray for Joan and all of those who make a sacrificial witness for life.’
Judge allows defense to call jailed pro-lifers to testify in third DC FACE Act trial
In an unexpected move during pro-lifer Paulette Harlow’s trial, Joan Andrew Bell and Jean Marshall will be brought to the courtroom on Wednesday from the Alexandria Detention Center, where they have been incarcerated since their own trial in mid-September.Read More
Bishop lauds imprisoned pro-lifer Joan Bell for ‘inspiring life and dedication’ to protecting the unborn
Bishop Kevin Sweeney said the 74-year-old’s ‘voice, example, and witness, are worthy of our consideration’ and called on Catholics to ‘pray for Joan and all of those who make a sacrificial witness for life.’Read More