Bishop Barron: Church should engage culture with more ‘energy, panache, and confidence’
Bishop Robert Barron speaks to EWTN’s Colm Flynn about evangelizing the culture today. October 2023. / Credit: Word on Fire Vatican City, Oct 26, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Bishop Robert Barron said he regrets the Catholic Church’s “hand-wringing” in recent decades over how to share the Christian message with a secular culture. In an […]
Analysis: South Lebanon is a ‘volcano in motion,’ and Christian villages do not sleep
The southern border town of Qalaia, Lebanon. / Credit: Al-Qulaya Facebook page ACI MENA, Oct 26, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The scene of tension is not new to the villages of Lebanon’s southern border, especially the Christian ones. The towns that … […]
Matthew Kelly Tackles The Big Lie and Other Lies About Christianity
Matthew Kelly’s “The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity: How Modern Culture is robbing billions of people of happiness “ is a powerful and thought-provoking book that challenges readers to examine their beliefs about happiness and the meaning of life. The book begins by exploring our deep yearning for happiness and how the world’s… […]
Gazan Christians rediscover courage in community life sheltering in Holy Family church
VaticanNews—Sister Nabila Saleh and 700 other Christians sheltering in the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza are now facing an outbreak of the flu virus, but say they have rediscovered the importance of community. There are 700 people taking refuge inside the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza City. “There is only destruction and desolation… […]
Getting our feet wet
The synodal journey on which Pope Francis has re-launched the Pilgrim Church is, at times, like crossing a flowing river on stepping stones
Synodal goes liminal
With the first session of the Synod on the future of the Church now completed, what’s likely to happen between now and October 2024 when it’s time for Round II?
The Cost of Cash
I have been lucky to have been blessed with seven children. They are now all adults. The majority have yet to start investing for the future despite the occasional admonishment from me. That’s a really bad idea for them and for anyone who has followed the same path. The chart below offers a very simple… […]
The other side of the border
Mass migration, like economic globalization and pandemics, points urgently to the interdependence of today’s world
Col. Macgregor to Tucker: Biden admin is driving the US into an ‘Armageddon’ war in Middle East
‘It’s going to be very difficult for Russia and Turkey not to also come into this fight against us because they will not tolerate the sort of collective punishment that Israel plans for Gaza,’ the retired colonel said.
American Academy of Pediatrics urges doctors to talk to kids about sex, promote gender ideology: report
By the close of the conference, according to one slide, pediatricians were expected to ‘feel comfortable discussing gender and sexuality with youth using updating language’ and to ‘ask open ended questions about youth’s identities and sexual behaviors.’