Lord’s Day Reflection: ‘Consumed by zeal for God’
As the Church marks the Third Sunday of Lent, Fr. Marion Nguyen, OSB, offers his thoughts on the day’s liturgical readings reflecting on wicked zeal and on good zeal that leads to God and everlasting life. Read all
Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Found Christianity Before His Death…
The slew of tributes after Alexei Navalny’s death earlier this month justly lauded his personal courage, political convictions and the loyalty of his family. Yet curiously for someone who was almost certainly martyred, his deep religious faith was absent from most of the obituaries written about him.
On Religion: Are Attacks Against Churches ‘Hate Crimes’ Or Old News?
Security cameras at St. Columba Catholic Church in Brooklyn showed five people, in the dead of night, trying to force their way inside. When they failed, the suspects settled for breaking a stained-glass window and attacking a nearby cross. Police noted that this Jan. 27 crime was the latest of many New York City attacks […]
Repentance and the Way of Perfection — that’s a path the Devil prefers you avoid…..
There is a particular sequence in the third pillar of the Catechism under the tenth commandment that describes the process of how you and I can see God. It begins by revealing that true happiness frees man from his immoderate attachment to the goods of this world so that he can find his fulfillment in […]
Family first? Or the Way of the Cross?
The second volume in the Catholic Women Writers series from Catholic University Press (full disclosure: I am on the series’ advisory board), Sheila Kaye-Smith’s 1923 novel The Fall of the House of Alard, may seem an odd choice to some. Written when Kaye-Smith was still an Anglo-Catholic, it deals with an old English aristocratic family […]
Pope Francis to the World’s Children: ‘If We Really Want to Be Happy, We Need to Pray’…
Pope Francis has issued a message to the world’s children in anticipation of the Church’s first-ever World Children’s Day, which will take place in Rome from May 25-26, reminding them that the key to happiness lies in cultivating a prayer life and personal relationship with Christ, which in turn forms the basis of broader social […]
Right-wing Catholic outlet Church Militant to close in April
Church Militant, the far-right Catholic media network, will cease operating at the end of April, according to a press release issued March 1 by the law firm Todd & Weld LLP.
Catholic priest finds kidney donor through parishioner
null / Credit: Chaikom/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 2, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Father Tim O’Sullivan is a parochial vicar at St. Ephrem Catholic Church in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. He first arrived to the parish in 2001 and says he considers it home. In 2017, the priest began to have several health issues that led to […]
Pope Francis meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Pope Francis meets with the Chancellor of Germany, discussing the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as the refugee crisis. Read all
Leaders of Jerusalem Churches strongly condemn deadly attack in Gaza
In a statement posted on Friday 1 March, the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem condemn the “wanton attack against innocent civilians” by the Israeli army the previous day in Gaza during a distribution of emergency food aid. They call for a “immediate and lengthy ceasefire.” Read all