First Arab Christian woman to lead Israel’s University of Haifa
Professor Mouna Maroun is the first Arab to be elected as the rector of an Israeli university, the University of Haifa. Maroun belongs to the Arab minority in Israel, the Christian minority among Arabs, and the Maronite minority among Christians. She says she is proud of her religious affiliation and wears a golden crucifix around […]
From the Washington Post to the Maronite convent: Meet Mother Marla Marie
Mother Marla Marie stands on the front porch of the sisters’ Mother of the Light convent in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Boston, Mass., May 4, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). It was 1983, in the last years of the Cold War, when 21-year-old Marla Lucas’ eyes filled with tears at the sight of […]
New film ‘Irena’s Vow’ highlights the bravery of a historical Catholic figure
Louise Archambault’s film “Irena’s Vow” tells the true story of Irena Gut, a devout Polish Catholic who risked her life by hiding 12 Jews in the basement of a Nazi major’s residence where she was a housekeeper.
Sixth Sunday of Easter: God shows no partiality
Scripture for Life: We’ve heard the call to love one another, perhaps too frequently. But Christ’s love is what the readings of the Sixth Sunday of Easter call forth from us and this call is likely to make us uncomfortable.
Jedi heresy on Star Wars Day: Wrong, Yoda was
“Do or do not,” Yoda said in “The Empire Strikes Back.” “There is no ‘try.’ ” But what does the Gospel have to say?
Searching for the ‘thing’ called beauty
Soul Seeing: Were it not for poets and philosophers, prophets and artists, and various faith traditions, I would come up empty in my search for the “thing” called beauty.
Columbia’s Catholic chaplain: Campus protests were pushed by ‘explicitly communist’ outsiders
Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News The World Over / Screenshot Washing… […]
The Miracles of Our Lady of Champion
Just northeast of the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, lies the site of a magnificent miracle. And today that site—the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion—is the only approved Marian apparition site in the […]
We need some real perspective on AI and evangelization
A few years ago on YouTube, there was a brief and fascinating fad for “tensegrity tables.” Tensegrity is a portmanteau combining “tensional” and “integrity,” and refers to structures whose parts are held together by a […]
Cardinal Pizzaballa: Peace in Holy Land built on dialogue, action
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took possession of his titular church, St. Onuphrius, in Rome on May 1, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, May 3, 2024 / 12:21 pm (CNA). The Latin patriarch of Je… […]