Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Pope receives President of Albania

Pope Francis and President Bajram Begaj of Albania meet in the Vatican and remember the communist regime’s religious persecution of Christians and the Albanian people’s efforts to protect Jewish people. Read all  

The True Face of Anti-Semitism

In “Veni Creator,” his lyric address to the Holy Spirit, Czeslaw Milosz reminds God of a couple of things, basic facts which, of course, God already knows: I am only a man: I need visible signs. I tire easily, building the stairway of abstraction. It probably never occurred to one of Poland’s premier poets of […]

The Danger of Expanding the Definition of Anti-Semitism

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives, in a 320-91 vote, approved the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (ASAA), requiring the Department of Education to expand the definition of anti-Semitism as demanded by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). This bipartisan measure, expected to be adopted by the Senate, comes at a time when police authorities are […]

Bishop Strickland Invokes The Warning Of Our Lady Of Akita In Message To The Faithful

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Demographic Trends, Financial Challenges Force Catholic College Closures

St. Mary Magdalene is the patron of the Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in Warner, New Hampshire, which will close its doors at the end of the 2023-2034 academic year. Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts has become one of 21 Catholic colleges across the country to shut its doors, merge with another institution, […]

Pope urges Swiss Guards to cultivate community life

Pope Francis greets the officers and new recruits of the Pontifical Swiss Guards on the day of the swearing-in ceremony, and encourages them to cultivate human relationships and community life in their service. Read all  

Leave behind Tridentine model of priesthood, embrace synodality, Cardinal Hollerich bids parish priests (Synod of Bishops (Italian))

On the last day of Parish Priests for the Synod—an international meeting of parish priests at the Vatican—Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, encouraged participants “to become ambassadors of synodality, to be full participants in a synodal Church, to become with all the people of God, missionary disciples of Jesus.” “Many times their training and their reality […]

Pope encourages reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Vatican Press Office)

Reparation for sin “presupposes two demanding attitudes: recognizing oneself as guilty and asking for forgiveness,” Pope Francis said in an address to participants in a conference marking the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of Christ at Paray-le-Monial, France. “Jesus asked St. Margaret Mary [for] acts of reparation for the offences caused by the sins of […]