Silencing the Press
Silencing the Press Reporter Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal has been detained in Russia for more than a year. It’s been nearly twelve years since Austin Tice, a freelance journalist for the Washington Post, was abducted in Syria, where he remains a hostage. In early May, Israeli authorities raided Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem office and shut […]
The Pilgrim Bridge, the News, and a Priest of Courage…
Today is the feast of St. Roman Adame Rosales, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. Roman Adame Rosales was born in 1859, in Jalisco, Mexico. In 1890 he became a priest — and during his priesthood, established associations of laity committed to nightly adoration of the Eucharist. Those associations continue to this day, actually…
Cardinal Müller at Chartres Latin Mass pilgrimage: ‘With God’s help, we go forward with courage’
Cardinal Gerhard Müller told Catholic pilgrims at the Chartres Cathedral, ‘The heroes of Christianity are not, as in secular history, emperors and generals, but warriors for truth and for the faith.’
‘Brain death’ is a convenient fiction for the organ harvesting industry
The statement ‘Catholics United on Brain Death and Organ Donation: A Call to Action’ asks the faithful ‘to unite against utilization of the current brain death criteria’ because these standards do not ensure that patients are dead when their organs are removed.
Vatican rules on supernatural apparitions: Last week in the Church with John Allen Jr.
War of words heats up between Vatican & Israel Peace rally sees Pope back in full force Vatican rules on supernatural apparitions False mysticism legal impediment in Rupnik case Controversial Chinese bishop to speak at Vatican conference
Catholic aid group weighs in on House, Senate committees’ dueling farm bills
Lawmakers on the House and Senate agriculture committees released differing frameworks for the 2024 farm bill, with one version praised by a Catholic aid group.
Vatican makes fresh overture to China, reaffirms that Catholic Church is no threat to sovereignty
The Vatican made another big overture to China on Tuesday, reaffirming the Catholic Church poses no threat to Beijing’s sovereignty and admitting that Western missionaries had made “errors” in past centuries in their zeal to convert the Chinese faithful.
City of Los Angeles proclaims May 19 ‘Father Greg Boyle Day’
The proclamation comes just two weeks after the priest who founded Homeboy Industries received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden.
Cardinal Pizzaballa: Catholic church in Gaza is an example of ‘steadfast faith’
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, described the small resilient community of the Holy Family Parish compound in Gaza City as one with “steadfast faith,” amid horrific destruction and constant bombardment.
Eucharistic boat processions in national pilgrimage routes evoke missionary legacy
By Sam Lucero CECIL, Wis. (OSV News) — Bringing Jesus to the faithful by boat is not an unfamiliar concept to Catholics in the Midwest. Jesuit missionaries in the 1600s used canoes to travel the lakes and rivers of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota to evangelize Indigenous peoples. Some 30 miles from where Jesuit Father Claude-Jean […]