Catholics in Chicago work to preserve historic century-old parish
Outer details of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Chicago. / Credit: Eric Allix Rogers CNA Staff, May 15, 2024 / 12:12 pm (CNA). Catholics and city preservationists in Chicago are scrambling to try to preserve a historic parish on the city’s North Side, one that has survived a century of the city’s development including […]
Catholic Bishops Warn of Polarization in Church, Urge More Dialogue
USCCB Gloria Purvis, Cardinal Robert McElroy, Bishop Daniel Flores, and Bishop Robert Barron discuss polarization in the Catholic Church during a panel discussion hosted by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities USA, Glenmary Home Missioners, and the Jesuit Conference on May 14, 2024. According to the panelists, American society and the Church […]
How Graham Greene’s ‘Brighton Rock’ helped me become Catholic
‘Brighton Rock’ made me feel ready to become a Catholic after so many years of deliberately not being one. I, too, frequently felt lost and agnostic. The story of Rose and Pinkie—so similar, so different, both human—was like a piece I found that had been missing from my puzzle.
Hope in a wounded church
By Teresa Pitt Green Most Catholics experience the crisis of sexual abuse by clergy in relation to headlines, as stories from around the globe or from the local parish where a trusted priest has been removed. Yet the pain of abuse within the church bleeds somewhere else, in Someone else’s wounds, which are the only […]
Pope Francis at General Audience: ‘Love is Charity’
Pope Francis addresses the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience on May 15, 2024, at the Vatican. Pope Francis also centered his catechesis on St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, noting that the apostle was speaking to a community divided.
Louisiana high court to reconsider recent ruling on ‘look back law’ for abuse claims
Louisiana’s top court will reconsider its recent decision to scrap a “look back law” for abuse survivors — a move that could have a profound impact on several Catholic dioceses in the state that are already grappling with significant legal settlements and ongoing investigations.
What Catholics should do if their presidential candidate doesn’t win
During a “Civilize It” webinar sponsored by the U.S. bishops, three prelates urged Catholics to engage in the political process, but also to remember that neither party supports Catholic teaching in its entirety
Catholic activist sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison for abortion clinic blockade
Lauren Handy has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison—57 months—for leading a blockade of a Washington abortion clinic on Oct. 22, 2020.
California’s Eucharistic pilgrimage route aiming for ‘epic’ launch
By the time the monstrance carrying the Blessed Sacrament has completed the California leg of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s Serra Route next week, it will have been carried across the Golden Gate Bridge, led a flotilla of boats down the Sacramento River, drawn people to adoration at a homeless shelter, and led another flotilla of […]
Slovakia’s Prime Minister shot outside Bratislava
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot and injured in an apparent assassination attempt outside the capital Bratislava. The motives of the gunman were not immediately clear, but the attack comes after a period of political turmoil in the Eastern European nation. Read all