Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

The best gift to give to our heavenly mother, according to St. John of Avila

Virgin Mary by Sassoferrato. / Credit: Public domain ACI Prensa Staff, May 10, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Along with other saints, every May 10 the Church honors St. John of Avila, the patron saint of the Spanish clergy. This renowned founder of schools and centers of formation and study recorded in one of his […]

Bishop Paprocki: Biden mocks Catholic faith by invoking Christ in pro-abortion message

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois. / Credit: Diocese of Springfield in Illinois Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 10, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, is accusing President Joe Biden of “making a mockery of our Catholic faith” after he made the sign of the cross while promoting […]

Priest Plunges School Into Darkness to Save Children From Marauding Gunmen…

The quick thinking of a headteacher helped save the lives of sleeping students after armed extremists stormed a secondary school in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Father Emmanuel Ogwuche, principal at Father Angus Frazer Memorial High School in Makurdi, promptly switched off all the lights in the building after hearing gunshots outside, preventing the terrorists from finding […]

Being a pilgrim is not easy, as Dorothy Day shows…

We once had a pastor who often, almost in every homily, described the Christian life as a “journey.” The word’s a good go-to image for the Christian life, but it’s not the best one. The Christian life isn’t just a journey, though, it’s a particular type of journey. By itself, the image says that you’re […]

Did Egyptian monks pave the way for St. Patrick?

The book opens like a mystery novel. The year is 2006. An Irish farmer, digging for peat, notices an odd shape in his bucket. Looking carefully, he discovers that it is a very old book. Bringing it to experts, he learns that it is a psalter, more than a thousand years old, written on papyrus, […]