Catholic Home Missions Appeal: an opportunity for parishes to ‘minister to their neighbors’
Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Apr 5, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The U.S. Catholic bishops announced on Wednesday that April 27-28 will be this year’s annual Catholic Home Missions Appeal, which supports vital ministries for more than 75 U.S. dioc… […]
Catholic Movie Club: Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’ is one long prayer
As much as ‘The Tree of Life’ is about a family, it’s just as much about Jack’s relationship with God, and how it changes as he grows.
Pope Francis buried the hatchet with President Milei. Argentina’s bishops aren’t ready to do the same.
Pope Francis has been managing church-state relations well since Javier Milei’s election, while the church hierarchy in Argentina has kept a cautious and skeptical distance from the country’s new leader.
Review: Tan Twan Eng’s new novel summons the spirit of Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham’s short story “The Letter” serves as the linchpin of Tran Twan Eng’s third novel, “The House of Doors,” which was selected for the 2023 Booker Prize long list.
Camillian priest in Haiti: ‘Amid gang warfare Church must bring hope’
Father Robert Daudier, director of the Foyer San Camillo in the gang-controlled municipality of Croix de Bouquet, near Port-au-Prince, speaks to Vatican News about how the Camillian-run Catholic health facility is managing to cope with the constant threat of bandits, and how the Church tries to bring hope to the suffering Haitian population Read all […]
ROME 24/3– Day 16: Easter Friday (& Fr. Z’s Kitchen)
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3 years in jail for ‘insults’ against LGBT ideology: Poland’s potential new ‘hate speech’ law
Conservatives have slammed the proposal as an attempt to stifle debate on LGBT issues and silence Christian teachings.
That Early-Eastering Crocus
Lonely, cold, but stubborn, it had somehow managed to rise up from the half-frozen, slowly thawing soil.
Vatican issues universal guidelines on sex abuse
Every diocese, Catholic religious order and institution in the world have clear safeguarding guidelines and procedures and that they are publicly accessible, the new guidelines reaffirm.
When my husband abused me, a priest told me to wait and pray. That was never enough.
The church’s respect for marriage should never supersede its respect for the lives and safety of the people who enter into that sacrament. It’s time for the church to do more to speak up for abused women.