Totality or Nothing: What the Solar Eclipse Revealed About God…
Awesome is an overused word. On Monday, I was lucky enough to experience a total solar eclipse. It was … awesome. Although I think I could easily give a dozen reasons why I found it so moving, I will offer just two. First, consider that a total solar eclipse is almost universally acknowledged to be […]
Revolutionary Praxis at Work with Fiducia Supplicans
“Christianity is a praxis: this seems to be the synthetic criteria for evaluating what happened with and after Fiducia supplicans.” So says Stefano Fontana in La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana on February 12, 2024.
Toward a Remaking of the American Episcopacy
On March 19, 2024, Cardinal Blase Cupich–known to be close to Francis–turned 75 years old, the age limit for exercising his office. In total, a little less than half of American dioceses will become vacant by 2025, giving the Pope the opportunity to lastingly reshape an episcopate that has made life difficult for him since […]
Netherlands: Euthanasia Accounts for More Than 5% of Deaths in 2023
According to the Netherlands Times, 9,068 deaths by euthanasia were reported in the Netherlands in 2023, as opposed to 8,720 the preceding year. Furthermore, the report underlines an increase of 20% in cases of euthanasia for psychological reasons.
Benedict XVI biographer pushes back on Pope Francis’ claim they had a ‘cordial relationship’
Peter Seewald slammed Pope Francis’ characterization of Benedict XVI as a ‘transitional pope’ and said that Francis has sought throughout his papacy ‘to break away from the continuity of the popes’ and create ‘chaos.’
WATCH: Brazilian lawmaker’s UN speech demolishing the left goes viral, wins praise from Elon Musk
Nikolas Ferreira said Brazil’s socialist president Lula da Silva ‘should be in jail’ and blasted LGBT ideology and ‘genocidal’ abortion in a powerful speech promoted by Elon Musk.
Pope slams gender theory, surrogacy & sex change: Last Week in the Church with John Allen Jr.
Pope slams gender theory, surrogacy & sex change Pope meets families of Israeli hostages Pope removes Cardinal Donatis Pope under fire for interview book Pope travels to slums to meet with priests
Trump says he will not sign a national abortion ban if reelected
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives at the Atlanta airport on April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. / Credit: Megan Varner/Getty Images CNA Staff, Apr 10, 2024 / 14:20 pm (CNA). Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would not sign a national abortion ban if reelected to the […]
Trump Says He Will Not Sign a National Abortion Ban if Reelected
Megan Varner Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a visit to a Chick-fil-A restaurant on April 10, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump has been steadily positioning himself as more of a centrist on abortion in recent months.
The right and wrong way to read the new Vatican doc on dignity
If you are not challenged somewhere in your own moral thinking by reading it, then you most likely have not read it thoroughly enough.