The Pope wants Chinese Catholics to be ‘best among citizens,’ Cardinal Parolin says (Vatican News)
At a conference marking the 100th anniversary of the First Council of the Catholic Church in China, the Vatican’s Secretary of State said that “obedience to the Pope not only does not harm the love each person should have for their own country, but rather purifies and enlivens it.” “The Pope wants Chinese Catholics to […]
Pope prays for Christian Unity with ecumenical delegation from Hong Kong
Pope Francis greets a delegation from the Hong Kong Christian Council and prays for Christian Unity together with the members of the delegation. Read all
‘Bidenomics’ push overall inflation to 19%, straining growth of US household net worth
Since Joe Biden took office, inflation has risen over 19%, causing financial strain for many American households.Read More
Ditch Deepfake Parenting
Last October, a disturbing headline caught my eye. A 14-year-old student discovered that she and several other female classmates at her New Jersey high school were the victims of explicit images created and circulated by a male classmate. What disturbed me most was that this wasn’t the abhorrent practice of “revenge porn,” a phenomenon that […]
Understanding the New Vatican Norms for Discerning Supernatural Phenomena
When I first started exploring Catholicism as a Protestant in the early 1990’s, I was taken aback by the fact that many of the Catholics I knew believed the Blessed Virgin Mary was appearing in a small village in then-Yugoslavia. The seemingly outlandish tale conflicted with my stereotype of Catholics as more interested in rituals […]
Invoking John Paul the Great
ROME. Age certainly accelerates one’s sense of the passage of time. Continue Reading »
Israel, Armenia, and the Ivy League
My great-grandparents came to Egypt in the early twentieth century, narrowly escaping the systematic genocide of the 1.5 million Armenians and other minorities by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The international apathy to the massacres was a galvanizing data point for Hitler in planning his own holocaust against the Jews during the Second […]
Catholic high school decades in the making breaks ground in northern Colorado
The graduating senior class pioneered St. John Paul II High School in Colorado as freshmen. The 12 students are the first to have gone through all four years of the St. John Paull II program. / Credit: Monica Yee/St. John Paul II High School CNA Staff, May 22, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). After operating […]
Vatican open to a “Chinese face” for the Catholic Church in outreach to Beijing
At a congress in Rome attended by representatives sent by Beijing, Pope Francis and Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin extended a clear olive branch to Chinese authorities, expressing openness to a Catholic Church with a “Chinese face.”
New clergy arrests, information blackout spark consternation in Belarus
(OSV News) — Leaders of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate have deplored an information blackout surrounding the arrest of two of their priests in Belarus. “No one from the Catholic Church was represented at their court hearing, and no details or access were provided,” said Father Pawel Gomulak, spokesman for the religious order’s Polish […]