Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Biden administration announces new regulations on gender identity policies

The Department of Health and Human Services announced new regulations April 26 that restore Obama-era protections for patients who identify as transgender that the Trump administration rolled back in 2020. The new rule follows another controversial rule adding gender identity to Title IX protections. The HHS regulations, scheduled to be published May 6, seek to […]

South Sudan: Where are Fr Luke and his driver?

South Sudan’s Diocese of Tombura-Yambio is desperately searching for Fr. Luke Yugue and his driver, Mr Michael Gbeko. The duo left Nagero County for Tombura on Saturday, 27 April, but did not arrive at their destination. Their whereabouts are unknown. Read all  

Game, set, God: French athlete trades championship title for abbey life

Elevation of the chalice at a Traditional Latin Mass. / Credit: Wikimedia JoeJ10/CC BY-SA 4.0 CNA Newsroom, Apr 30, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA). At the pinnacle of his professional sports career, one French athlete announced his intention to quit volleyball to embrace monastic life at a famous French abbey.  Ludovic Duée, captain of the […]

St. Marie of the Incarnation, Pray for Us!

“Portrait of Mother Marie of the Incarnation,” attributed to Hugues Pommier, 1672 SAINTS & ART: Strong-willed women like Mère Marie, committed to God, played critical roles in Canadian Catholic history.

Pope’s CBS interview ‘normalizes’ his relations with American media

ROME — Sometimes the most important aspect of a development isn’t its content, but the fact it happened at all. For instance, when a U.S. president throws out the first pitch at a baseball game, the news generally leads off with his presence, not the fact the throw was low and in the dirt. One […]

Should We Expect a “Rapture” at Any Moment?

If the news we watch every day, and the social media we follow is true, the end times must be just around the corner, right? What does Scripture say? Faced with such a dire time of tribulation, some Christians have wondered whether they will have to live through it. The historic answer, for both Catholics […]