Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Minnesota bishops urge opposition to ‘Equal Rights Amendment’

Bishop Robert Barron. CNA file photo. / null CNA Staff, May 7, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis this week urged Catholics to join a rally to oppose a proposed constitutional amendment that they say “fails to protect Minnesotans from discrimination based on religion, could constitutionally mandate legal abortion […]

Federal grant fund for security at houses of worship boosted by $400 million

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. / Credit: Albert H. Teich/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 7, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA). A federal grant program that provides security funding for houses of worship and other nonprofits will receive $400 million more than it had the previous year amid rising threats, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]

The Significance of the Smile

Tint Media The smile is a two-way street. COMMENTARY: One cannot overestimate the healing significance of the smile.

Minnesota Bishops Urge Opposition to ‘Equal Rights Amendment’

null Bishop Robert Barron. CNA file photo. Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, speaking in a May 6 video message on behalf of the state’s bishops, warned that the proposal constitutes “an imposition of the sexual revolution on the people of our state.”

Pope Francis appoints new bishop to Diocese of Knoxville

Pope Francis on May 7, 2024, appointed Father James Mark Beckman, 61, a priest of the Diocese of Nashville, as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Knoxville. / Credit: Diocese of Nashville Rome Newsroom, May 7, 2024 / 11:50 am (CNA). Pope Franc… […]