Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Austin bishop celebrates special Mass in Texas prison for female death row inmates

Bishop Joe Vasquez of the Diocese of Austin celebrates Mass in the Mountain View Unit prison in Gatesville, Texas, which houses the state’s female death row, on Dec. 1, 2023. / Credit: Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition/TDCJ Communications CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2023 / 10:41 am (CNA). Bishop Joe Vasquez of the Diocese of Austin celebrated […]

Canonization cause advances for ‘God’s architect,’ Antoni Gaudí

The Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí, whose cause for beatification is being considered by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. / Credit: Public domain; r.nagy/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 5, 2023 / 11:21 am (CNA). The beatification cause for Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect known as “God’s […]

Humanity must build alliances supporting peace, creation, pope says

The world needs people to build alliances that are not against others, but are in favor of everyone, Pope Francis told faith leaders at the U.N. Climate Change Conference being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. “It is important that religions, without falling into the trap of syncretism, set a good example by working together: […]

Archaeological Evidence and the Obliteration of Sodom

Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven . . . and lo, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. —Genesis 19:24,28 Prior to the last fifteen years or so, the leading archaeological theory, for those who believe that Sodom […]