Pope Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos Condemns the Cardinal Sin of the Vatican II Revolution
As profitable and enlightening as it is to reflect on how Mirari Vos condemns the specific novelties of Vatican II, though, we might draw greatest value from the encyclical if we can truly appreciate what it said about the permissibility of novelties in general.
Jessica Hooten Wilson on ‘Wildcats’ /Father Dave Pivonka on Title IX (May 4)
Credit: Oscilloscope Laboratories Maya Hawke as American writer Flannery O’Connor in the 2024 film “Wildcat.” Flannery O’Connor shares the big screen with some of her most memorable short story characters in the new indy film ‘Wildcat’. O’Connor scholar Jessica Hooten Wilson gives her take on the film and what animates the Catholic 20th century writer’s […]
Cardinal Pizzaballa: Peace in Holy Land built on dialogue, action
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took possession of his titular church, St. Onuphrius, in Rome on May 1, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, May 3, 2024 / 12:21 pm (CNA). The Latin patriarch of Je… […]
Chicago priest blesses same-sex ‘spouses,’ says Fiducia Supplicans allows it
null / Gutzemberg / Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 3, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA). A priest in Chicago last month blessed a same-sex couple, saying that the Vatican’s recent document Fiducia Supplicans authorized such blessings. Father Joseph Willi… […]
The prayer of a holy journalist before dying for the freedom of the Catholic press
Martyred by the Nazis, Dutch St. Titus Brandsma was a journalist who gave his life so that the truths of the faith would not be silenced. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons CNA Newsroom, May 3, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA). World Press Freedom Day is celebra… […]
Biden to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit priest for work with youth
Father Greg Boyle gives an address at “We ♥ LA: An Urban Retreat for LA’s Passionate Leaders” in 2010. / Credit: durfeefoundation, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 3, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA). The White House on Friday announced that Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, the founder of a prominent ministry dedicated […]
On that Associated Press piece and the future of the Church in America
Tim Sullivan’s recent piece for the Associated Press on the state of the Church in America has made the rounds in Catholic circles, and it feels like a generally accurate snapshot of where things are and […]
OSV News Showcase | May 3, 2024
As a Benedictine College graduate, I have many thoughts about a recent Associated Press article about “traditional” and “liberal” Catholicism in the U.S. featuring the college. First, I found it hilariously absurd that food at the Caf (or Dining Hall, as it’s been rebranded) got mentioned in an AP story. Classes come and go, but […]
How to Practice Our Lady of Fatima’s Forgotten Call to the 5 First Saturdays Devotion
Do you know how to practice Our Lady of Fatima’s Five First Saturdays Devotion? In 1917, Our Lady of Fatima appeared six times to the three shepherd children–Lucia dos Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto. Our Lady said during the July 1917 apparition: “I shall come to ask… that on the First Saturday of every […]
3 House Republicans confront CDC about IVF industry’s ‘destruction of precious life’
IVF facilities aren’t required to report the numbers of embryos they create or destroy or even if they use ‘genetic screening’ to ‘discard’ babies based on physical characteristics, like eye color, the Republican congressmen warned.