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September 6, 2025
Technically, AI writing tools are not classified as robots because they aren’t physical things. However, in the following article, I sometimes refer to them as “robots” because it’s the best I can do, for now, to explain my thinking. This...
August 29, 2025
A few years ago, I sat down on The Mentors Radio with FBI Special Agent Steve Friend, a fellow graduate of the University of Notre Dame, to explore the source of his courage. Corruption vs. long-established FBI protocols At the...
August 29, 2025
CBJ Note: Annunciation Catholic School has been serving South Minneapolis since 1923and is, according to their website, the only International Baccalaureate PYP Catholic school in Minnesota. CNA—After a pair of out-of-state school shootings in 2022 and 2023 shocked the nation,...
August 29, 2025
CBJ: As you read further, you will discover first-hand courage in young children amid a horrific tragedy and the Enduring Power of family faith and prayer, nurtured by good Catholic education... CNN—Before Endre Gunter was taken to emergency surgery to...
August 28, 2025
CNA—Pope Leo XIV recalled what the “life and witness” of St. Augustine means for Christians on the day the Catholic Church celebrates his feast day, Aug. 28. “The life and witness of St. Augustine reminds us that each of us...
August 27, 2025
An Important Message from Principal DeBoer and Father Zehren Aug 27, 2025 Dear Annunciation Parish and School Family, We are navigating an impossible situation together at this time. No words can capture what we have gone through, what we are...
August 22, 2025
CNA, ed. CBJ—Most people think of St. Maximilian Kolbe as the heroic martyr who traded places with another prisoner in the Nazi's horrific Auschwitz prison, resulting in a painful death by starvation, but there is much more of the story...
August 15, 2025
A new study found that 2025 graduates of Catholic law schools are not only more focused on ethics, service, and community, but they are also more likely to be practicing law than graduates of secular institutions. The study, commissioned by...
August 15, 2025
Review of The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love, by Vienna Pharaon Vienna Pharaon’s The Origins of You is one of the most eye-opening, compassionate, and transformative books I’ve read in...
August 8, 2025
Detroit Catholic/CNA—At the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit, the band is getting back together. The band of Christ’s 12 apostles, that is. On Feb. 8, Detroit’s mother church will publicly unveil its long-awaited “Journey with the Saints”...
August 8, 2025
CNA/NCR—A Massachusetts mayor is going to bat for including statues of two Catholic saints on the city’s new public safety building, saying he picked them because of their importance to police and firefighters and accusing opponents of harboring “‘negative attitudes’...
August 8, 2025
Aug. 8, 2025—In today's historic peace deal—after decades of bitter conflict and tremendous suffering for both nations over the ethnically Armenian-Christian Nagorno-Karabakh enclave—Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a peace deal at the White House....
August 8, 2025
CNA—Today marks three months since Pope Leo XIV first appeared on the central balcony of the Vatican basilica after being elected the successor of St. Peter. In that first urbi et orbi message, delivered on May 8, the Holy Father...
July 31, 2025
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="330"] Dr. Hitchcock talking about history and Catholic education in an interview in St. Louis.[/caption] We at Catholic Textbook Project mourn the loss of one of America's and the Church's great historians, Dr. James Hitchcock, who recently...
July 28, 2025
CNA—Ernesto Escaler, a renowned Filipino businessman and the owner of Gourmet Farms Philippines, one of the most iconic restaurant brands in the country, is described as a man of few words but remarkable action. His staff describe him as deeply...
July 27, 2025
CNA—Antonia Raco, a 67-year-old Italian woman long affected by an incurable neurodegenerative illness, was officially introduced to the press on July 25 in Lourdes, where her healing was recognized as the 72nd miracle attributed to the intercession of the Virgin...
July 27, 2025
Book Review: Creating Moments of Joy, by Jolene Brackey Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia is an experience filled with challenges, but as Jolene Brackey beautifully illustrates in Creating Moments of Joy, it is also a journey of wisdom,...
July 26, 2025
On May 30, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed SCR 19— introduced by Texas legislators Senator Tan Parker and Representative Caroline Harris Davila. The bill SCR19 approved the placement of a statue honoring “Mother and Child” in the Texas Capitol...
July 19, 2025
CNA—England—The skull of St. Thomas More may be exhumed and preserved to coincide with the 500th anniversary of his historic martyrdom, according to a spokesperson for St. Dunstan’s Church in Canterbury, England, the Anglican church in which the relic reportedly...
July 19, 2025
CNA—A reported strike on the only Catholic Church in Gaza killed three people and injured nine others July 17, according to a statement from the Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM. Among the injured was the parish priest, Father Gabriel...
July 18, 2025
Pope Leo XIV received a phone call Friday from Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, following yesterday’s Israeli army attack on Holy Family Church in Gaza. According to a statement from the Holy See Press Office, the pope received...
July 3, 2025
At the outbreak of fighting in April 1775, few colonists wanted complete independence from Great Britain. Those who did were thought to be radical. By the middle of the following year, however, sentiments had shifted and many more colonists now...
June 29, 2025
CNA—The last three popes — Benedict XVI, Francis, and Leo XIV — have on more than one occasion recommended reading Lord of the World, the dystopian science fiction novel written by Robert Hugh Benson in 1907. This apocalyptic novel depicts the...
June 28, 2025
CNA—The cast of the hit series “The Chosen” was recently in Matera, Italy, filming the crucifixion of Jesus, which will be featured in Season 6. Abe Bueno-Jallad, the actor who portrays Big James, or James the Great, shared that he...
June 28, 2025
Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) was born just outside of London, the youngest son of Mary Sidgwick and Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 to his death in 1896. Benson studied at Eton and Trinity College in Cambridge...
June 13, 2025
CNA—For many years in the United States, Catholic dioceses have periodically announced major settlements involving victims of Catholic clergy abuse, with the payouts coming as part of bankruptcy proceedings related to abuse claims. Since 2004, when the Archdiocese of Portland...
June 13, 2025
CNA—The Vatican has recognized two miracles attributed to Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati’s intercession that make possible his canonization on Sept. 7. The most recent miracle involved the healing of an American seminarian. Frassati, who died at the age of 24...
June 13, 2025
VNS—Pope Leo XIV presides at an Ordinary Public Consistory for the Vote on Causes for Canonization, which gave formal approval for the canonizations of eight Blesseds, and set the date for their canonizations. Pope Leo XIV held the first Ordinary...
June 13, 2025
VNS—On 15 June, the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy, will witness the beatification of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a young Congolese member of the Community of Sant’Egidio, a martyr who stood up against corruption....
June 2, 2025
NCRegister—It’s been less than two weeks since Pope Leo XIV was elected the 267th pope, and in that short time, he seems to have pulled off the incredible feat of winning over most Catholics at a time of deep division...
May 31, 2025
In 2006, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles held a most remarkable exhibit, featuring ancient icons from Sinai's St. Catherine’s Monastery. The first-ever exhibit from this 1,500 year old monastery included a video of the monastery, the vast surrounding desert,...
May 10, 2025
In some of his first words to the world on May 8, newly-elected Pope Leo XIV recalled the land where he worked as a missionary from 1985 to 1998. “And if you will allow me a word, a greeting to...
May 10, 2025
CNA—Nine months ago, then-Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost sat down for an interview at a parish in the Chicago area before celebrating Mass. Now that he is Pope Leo XIV, his words on the National Eucharistic Congress, Pope Francis, synodality, and...
May 10, 2025
VN/CNA--The Vatican unveiled Pope Leo XIV’s official portrait and signature Saturday, revealing the American pontiff’s embrace of traditional papal elements just two days after his historic election. The formal portrait shows the 69-year-old pope wearing the red mozzetta (short cape),...
May 8, 2025
VaticanNews--Just a few moments ago, from the central loggia of Saint Peter's Basilica, Cardinal Protodeacon Dominique Mamberti pronounced the formula "Habemus Papam," proclaiming to the city of Rome and to the whole world the news of the election of Robert...
May 8, 2025
CNA, Other sources--White smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel today at 6:09 p.m. Rome time, signaling the College of Cardinals has chosen a new pope. Of the 133 cardinals sequestered in the Vatican since May 7, one...
May 6, 2025
As reported by the Benedict XVI Institute, contrary to the ongoing commentary by secular media of all stripes, Archbishop Cordileone says the most important issue for the Church and the next Pope is the liturgy: “While liturgy was not a...
May 5, 2025
CNA—The conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor will begin on May 7, as the Church enters the final preparatory phase for choosing its 267th pope. Follow here for live updates of the latest news and information on the papal transition:...
May 5, 2025
CNA--Dr. Christopher Stroud was a Catholic OB-GYN who prescribed birth control and gave referrals for in vitro fertilization (IVF) until a priest admonished him in the sacrament of reconciliation. Now Stroud runs a life-affirming fertility clinic that uses Natural Procreative...
May 4, 2025
CNA--In 1975, Cardinal John O’Connor, the late former archbishop of New York, visited the Dachau concentration camp. His life-changing experience there eventually led him to found the Sisters of Life, a community of women dedicated to living out his mission:...
May 2, 2025
Vatican News (VN)--The Laocoön group is a defining piece of the Vatican Museums that was found nearly intact underground in a vineyard in 1506. Its right arm was discovered just meters from that spot, 400 years later. The discoveryis credited...
April 21, 2025
Let us join the universal Church in prayer for the eternal rest of Pope Francis who died this morning in his residence in Vatican City State. Let us pray to God the Father that Pope Francis who served as the...
April 21, 2025
VaticanNews--Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. Official announcement by Vatican At 9:45 AM, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, announced...
April 13, 2025
source: NewmanReader.org—The following is a sermon given by Cardinal John Henry Newman regarding The Crucifixion. We at Catholic Business Journal found it to be a profound aid as the Christian world enters deeply into Holy Week, reflecting and echoing Christ's...
April 10, 2025
CNA—Organizers of the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage shared details today about the planned 3,340-mile trek that will see Jesus in the Eucharist carried across 10 U.S. states by a cadre of young Catholics, with members of the public invited to...
April 5, 2025
CNA—The following is a timeline of important dates from the McCarrick Report and elsewhere regarding abuse allegations against recently deceased former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Published by the Vatican on Nov. 10, 2020, the McCarrick Report examined the “institutional knowledge and...
March 31, 2025
CNA—Several U.S. Supreme Court justices across ideological lines during oral arguments Monday morning expressed concerns about a Wisconsin agency’s refusal to legally recognize a Catholic charity — run by the Diocese of Superior — as a religious organization. The dispute...
March 31, 2025
CNA—Following the March 28 earthquake that struck Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China, Cardinal Charles Bo, president of the Myanmar Bishops’ Conference, said the people of the Asian country now “need everything,” including peace to end the civil war. Vivid description...
March 30, 2025
CNA—Mel Gibson’s sequel to “The Passion of the Christ” — “The Resurrection of the Christ” — is set to begin production in Italy this August, according to Manuela Cacciamani, CEO of Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. “I can confirm that the next...
March 15, 2025
Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon marvels at evidence that mathematics itself proves God’s existence, citing the work of physicist Paul Dirac, Dr. Soon explains how the universe operates on precise mathematical laws that are too perfect to be random. “The...
February 28, 2025
CNA—Speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday prayed for Pope Francis amid his ongoing ailments, emphasized a message of hope, and called attention to ongoing pro-life policy efforts. “The Holy Father is still in precarious...
February 28, 2025
Prior to his health crisis, news sources report that Pope Francis clashed with cardinals regarding how best to address a growing deficit in Vatican finances. "Three days before hospitalization," reports Reuters and other sources, "Francis ordered the creation of a...
February 28, 2025
ACPrensa/CNA—Following the Feb. 25 decriminalization of abortion for up to 12 weeks of pregnancy in the Mexican state of Campeche, Bishop José Francisco González of the Diocese of Campeche warned that those who promote and facilitate the practice — including...
February 28, 2025
Vatican News—The Holy Father, Friday afternoon, after a morning spent alternating between respiratory physiotherapy and prayer in the chapel, experienced an isolated episode of bronchospasm. This caused an episode of vomiting, which led to him inhaling some and a sudden...
February 22, 2025
When is the last time you took a quiet moment and allowed yourself the inner silence to listen to the whisper of the Holy Spirit? To what were you invited—conflict resolution, another perspective, decisive action, compelling insight, inner peace, silence? ...
February 22, 2025
Vatican News (VN)—"Based on the facts that emerged during the trial, the applicants did not meet the standards of communication with the State (Secretariat of State, ed.) that could be qualified as conduct in good faith." These were the words...
February 22, 2025
VaticanNews—02/22/25—The Holy See Press Office issued the following medical update on Pope Francis on Saturday evening: The condition of the Holy Father continues to be critical. Therefore, as explained yesterday, the Pope is not out of danger. This morning, Pope...
February 22, 2025
CNA—The theme of the 2025 Jubilee Year is “Pilgrims of Hope.” For those who wish to embark on a spiritual pilgrimage through reading and prayer during the Lenten season — or anytime during this sacred year — here is a...
February 22, 2025
CNA—Pope Francis appointed Father Gregg Caggianelli, an Air Force veteran and Florida priest, as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, on Friday. USAF for more than 30 years Caggianelli, 56, has served on active duty and...
February 22, 2025
“The erosion of Christian communities would be a tragic loss not only for Syria but also for the stability of the region and the world.” This President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), Bishop...
February 15, 2025
VaticanNews— Pope Francis has called on decision-makers to ensure human beings maintain adequate control of AI’s decision-making capabilities and to examine AI’s effects on human relationships, information, and education over time. The Holy Father made these remarks in the message he...
February 15, 2025
An interesting read, certainly relevant... What do YOU think? Here's the story: VaticanNews—Alongside Pope Francis’ already substantial teaching on Artificial Intelligence, the Pontifical Academy for Life, the Vatican body which focuses on issues related to bioethics has also been reflecting...
February 15, 2025
VaticanNews—Pope Francis continued on Saturday to be treated for a respiratory infection at Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Hospital where laboratory tests indicate an improvement in certain health parameters. A statement released by the Holy See Press Office on Saturday afternoon said...
February 15, 2025
CBJ/CNA—On February 15 the Catholic church honors Saint Claude de la Colombiere, the 17th century French Jesuit who authenticated and wrote about Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque's visions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. When now-saint Pope John Paul II canonized...
February 8, 2025
CNA—Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, has spent the last 30 years staring at the sky. As the director of the Vatican Observatory, known informally as “the pope’s astronomer,” he has just published his 13th book — “A Jesuit’s Guide to the...
February 8, 2025
ACI Prensa/CNA—A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that were on the altar to the ground, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. After...
February 4, 2025
CNA/ACIPrensa—The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition. During the month of June, 25 students who were selected from among 120 candidates from different countries around the world will have the opportunity...
February 3, 2025
VaticanNews—The Vatican Secretariat for the Economy launches a new webpage to accept job applications for laypeople who wish to apply for vacant positions at the Holy See. "Work with Us" is a title that says it all. Up to now,...
February 1, 2025
(first published June 2017)—Having been a cross-country runner in high school and college, Dan McClory knows that going the distance is the most important part of any athletic endeavor. As managing director, head of equity capital markets and head of...
February 1, 2025
Earlier this morning, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker confirmed that seven people—the seventh person having been on the ground in a car—were killed from the deadly, tragic plane crash in Philadelphia that took place last night, January 31, 2025. She also...
February 1, 2025
CNA—After the tragic plane crash in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, a local priest made his way to the scene “to be present” with the grieving families. Father Frederick Edlefsen, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in Arlington, Virginia, shared...
February 1, 2025
ACI Prensa./CNA—History notes how much the Freemasons hated St. John Bosco, the founder of the Salesians — whose feast the Catholic Church celebrates on Jan. 31 — but less known are their attempts to kill him. Freemasons tried to kill...
January 31, 2025
CNA—Mark Houck, pro-life advocate and father of seven, was found not guilty Monday on federal assault charges stemming from a shoving incident outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic. Supporters of the Catholic father of seven cried and hugged one another after...
January 25, 2025
ACI Prensa—Every Jan. 24, the Catholic Church celebrates St. Francis de Sales, bishop of Geneva and doctor of the Church, known as “the saint of kindness.” He reportedly had a bad temper, but he relied on divine grace and the...
January 25, 2025
CNA—More than 5,000 students, families, and other pro-life Catholics packed into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., for a vigil service Thursday on the evening before the national March for Life. Attendees filled the pews in...
January 24, 2025
Tens of thousands of pro-life people of various ages and backgrounds held handmade signs as they walked from the National Mall to the Supreme Court building on Friday, packing the streets of Washington, D.C., for the 52nd annual March for Life. After...
January 23, 2025
As fires raged (and as of this writing, continue to rage) throughout southern California, two world-renown museums—the iconic, large, modern Getty Museum on the edge of northwest Los Angeles and the more intimately designed Getty Villa just outside Malibu—lay directly...
January 18, 2025
For nearly 50 years, Peter Callahan has served the letter of the law of the land as an attorney in California. But for the last 12 years this father of two and grandfather of at least four, with his wife...
January 17, 2025
And just like that, Israel and Hamas agree on a ceasefire agreement...a week before a new U.S. President is sworn in. The SAME ceasefire agreement that was rejected just a few months earlier! It is interesting what can be achieved...
January 17, 2025
ACI Prensa/CNA—The Cuban government’s announcement of the release of 553 prisoners has been described by an analyst and the opposition as “a swap” by the regime to obtain economic benefits from the United States, including removing the island from the...
January 17, 2025
CNA—After the Archdiocese of Philadelphia found that 83% of baptized Catholics are missing from the pews in the archdiocese, Archbishop Nelson Pérez decided to launch a missionary outreach program in his archdiocese to “invite people home.” The number of “missing...
January 17, 2025
ACI Prensa/CNA—Franciscan friar Paolo Benanti, an expert in artificial intelligence (AI), warned of its ethical risks during a colloquium organized by the Paul VI Foundation in Madrid, pointing out that “the people who control this type of technology control reality.”...
January 11, 2025
From Washington, D.C. to San Francisco and many cities in between, January is dedicated to supporting, promoting and re-dedicating ourselves to living our Catholic values in our defense of human life, especially the unborn. BUT NOT ALL EVENTS take place...
January 11, 2025
CNA/AngelusNews—Relentless, devastating, heart-breaking, horrific fires in suburban Los Angeles continue to burn and lay waste to entire neighborhoods as Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez on Thursday urged Catholics to remember the preciousness of human life and to make themselves “instruments”...
January 11, 2025
CNA/ACI Prensa—The cause for canonization of Argentine businessman Enrique Shaw took another step forward this week as the alleged miracle attributed to his intercession passed the medical stage and will now be evaluated by a commission of theologians of the...
January 11, 2025
VM/CNA—Pope Francis kicked off the first Saturday jubilee audience of 2025 by urging pilgrims to embrace hope as a divine strength that enables new beginnings, drawing inspiration from St. John the Baptist. Speaking to pilgrims gathered in the Vatican’s audience...
January 3, 2025
CNA—St. Francis Xavier lived the life of a missionary, baptizing tens of thousands in India and Japan. In death, he continues to give himself to Christ’s Church, as his relics offer pilgrims spiritual consolation in Italy and India. St. Francis...
January 3, 2025
The B.C. Catholic/CNA—If the faithful can’t go to the shrine, bring the shrine to the faithful. So it will be with the relics of the Canadian Martyrs, usually housed in their Midland, Ontario, shrine, which will make their first tour...
December 28, 2024
CNA, London, England—The lord mayor of Westminster in London said he is “blown over” after being chosen to become a papal knight — the highest honor a lay Catholic can receive from the Vatican. Councillor Robert Rigby will become a...
December 28, 2024
CNA—Pope Francis called on Catholics to become “pilgrims of hope” in a BBC podcast on Friday, emphasizing that “hope and kindness touch the very heart of the Gospel.” Speaking just days after the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year, the...
December 28, 2024
It took them 10 years, but today the vision shared by a small group of home-schooling moms in Massachusetts has come to life. They banded together to form a classical Catholic school centered on Christ for their children. They started...
December 21, 2024
CNA—“O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to you, O Israel!” This favored Christmas carol is no carol at all. It’s...
December 21, 2024
CNA—The O Antiphons are prayers that are recited or chanted in an ancient tradition leading up to Christmas Day. What is the hidden meaning of the O Antiphons? “Composed in the sixth or seventh century, the seven O Antiphons are...
December 21, 2024
CNA—Bethelehem, West Bank—Being an artisan in Bethlehem isn’t just a job. It’s an art, almost a calling, a treasure handed down from father to son, but one that is now at risk of being lost. After two years of war......
December 21, 2024
CNA—Cross Catholic Outreach’s Box of Joy ministry has officially reached its 10th anniversary and marked the occasion with a trip by Catholic actor David Henrie and his family to Guatemala to deliver boxes to children there. Henrie, who serves as...
December 20, 2024
CNA—Author and Catholic convert Lee Edwards, one of the foremost historians of the conservative movement in America, died Thursday. He was 92. Edwards co-founded the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C., authorized by Congress in 1993 and completed in...
December 15, 2024
CNA—EWTN Global Catholic Network presented the 2024 Mother Angelica Award to Curtis and Michaelann Martin, co-founders of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), an organization recognized as one of the most influential forces for Catholic evangelization in the United...
December 12, 2024
Crisis—Our Lady of Guadalupe was there at Lepanto, hearkening to the Rosary recited by the soldiers processing round the decks, her quiet, pregnant power blazing at that apocalyptic battle with all the splendor of the star-crowned Woman of Revelation. Most...
December 11, 2024
CNA—updated 12/12/24—Researcher and physicist Dr. Aldofo Orozco told participants at the International Marian Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe, held August 7, 2009, that there is no scientific explanation for the then-478 years of high quality-preservation of the Tilma or...
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February 19, 2019
CNA—Assisted suicide contradicts the foundations of medical ethics, violates the basic standards of medical care, and threatens people who most need the assistance of the medical profession, warned a doctor who is opposing Maryland’s proposal to legalize the practice. “If we allow this form of euthanasia into our health care system, it will inevitably corrode…
February 19, 2019
“Let not your heart be troubled!” (John 14:1) In the face of growing confusion about the doctrine of the Faith, many bishops, priests, religious and lay people of the Catholic Church have requested that I make a public testimony about the truth of revelation. It is the shepherds’ very own task to guide those entrusted…
February 19, 2019
CNA—The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Feb. 14 officially proposed to rescind a rule to protect borrowers from predatory lending, prompting concern from Christian groups nationwide that the CFPB may weaken existing protections against loan sharks. Catholic Charities USA and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops joined a coalition of Christian groups to sign…
February 19, 2019
CNS—The 1983 Code of Canon Law did not anticipate crimes being committed by bishops that could result in their laicization, according to a canon law professor at The Catholic University of America. Jesuit Father Robert Kaslyn, who has taught courses in laicization, said the Second Vatican Council has also made it more complicated to remove…
February 18, 2019
CNA—Bishops from across the United States have reacted to the news that Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty of sexual abuse and expelled from the clerical state. The disgraced former cardinal and archbishop of Washington and Newark was found guilty in a Vatican decision announced Saturday. A Vatican administrative penal process concluded that McCarrick had…
February 18, 2019
CNA—The Archdiocese of Newark released a list of names of credibly accused clergy on Wednesday, including disgraced former archbishop of the diocese Theodore McCarrick. The archdiocese listed McCarrick as “permanently removed from ministry,” although a final verdict is still pending in his canonical process. On Feb. 13, all the Catholic dioceses of New Jersey released…
February 12, 2019
CNA — Another miracle was officially recognized at the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, the 70th Lourdes miracle recognized by the Catholic Church. The miracle was officially declared by Bishop Jacques Benoit-Gonin of Beauvais, France on Feb. 11, the World Day of the Sick and the feast day of Our Lady…
February 12, 2019
Happily married for 40 years, a friend of mine from New York says that one of the (several) reasons his marriage has survived when so many others have crashed is a single, simple act of self-discipline. Every payday for more than three decades, he’s brought home six roses for his wife: sometimes three red, sometimes…
February 12, 2019
CNA—When two Michigan high school students were planning for a community service project, they decided they wanted to help younger children learn to pray. So, they fund-raised, designed, and managed the construction of a chapel and Marian shrine for the local Catholic middle school. Adam Sprague is a junior and Jacob Thome is a freshman…
February 12, 2019
Can a one-day conference at a university breathe life into a cause that lately appears to have stalled: involving the Catholic laity in ending the crisis of authority and trust afflicting the Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal? If not, here’s hoping that at least it points a way out of the…
February 12, 2019
CNA—In a rare new letter penned by Benedict XVI, the retired pontiff said he is in the last phase of his life, and while his physical strength might be waning, he is surrounded by a “love and goodness” that he never imagined. “I can only say that at the end of a slow decline in…
February 12, 2019
CNA—A long-awaited summit on sexual abuse will take place at the Vatican two weeks from now. The meeting was announced in September, a few months after allegations of sexual abuse and coercion on the part of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick became public, and just weeks after Pope Francis himself was accused by former apostolic nuncio Archbishop…
February 7, 2019
Record-setting Greg Zuerlein places heaven above the Super Bowl. Last year in the playoffs, placekicker Greg Zuerlein was unable to help the Los Angeles Rams advance out of their wild card game due to injury. This year he has helped his team mightily, making three field goals against the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round…
February 7, 2019
“Why isn’t God answering my prayers? Am I not praying right?” These are very serious questions and deserve honest answers. Many people who pray — including those who pray long and hard — ask these questions from time to time, as well they might. Jesus certainly told us to “pray always” (Mt 21:22, Lk 18:1-18,…
February 7, 2019
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico– It is estimated that there are between 17,000 and 20,000 evangelical churches in Venezuela. Speaking directly to these churches and to Venezuelans who have been driven from their home country due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez issues the following statement on behalf of the National Hispanic Christian…
February 5, 2019
Believe me, it took too long online to find President Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address without any commentary, rebuttal, opinion, or interpretation! (Tell us there’s no doctored Google search algorythm and we won’t believe you!) That said, we found it! Thank you C-SPAN! So, if you missed the President’s State of the Union…
February 5, 2019
We are frequently questioned or challenged to substantiate the arguments that we have been making about the effect of the Reproductive Health Act. People keep asking us to show them “where in the bill does it say that”? Here is a detailed explanation of how the bill (now the law) does precisely what…
February 5, 2019
Just days ago Bishop Thomas Daly wrote a clear, concise and thoughtful letter to his diocese regarding politicians who support abortion. It is so refreshing in its clarity that we repost it here in its entirety—as follows: Dear Friends, Each January as the nation commemorates the sad anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, marches…
February 5, 2019
In light of recent increased legislative decrees promoting abortion without restraint of any kind, such as Governor Cuomo’s new New York State law, embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s cry for no-restrictions abortion even after a child is born, and the increasing intensity of the Culture of Death throughout our health institutions and laws, and echoed…
February 5, 2019
We are facing a crisis of life, conscience, faith and human dignity on many levels. Much attention is being given to the complex situation on our southern borders and the conflict in opinion about how best to secure our nation under the rule of law. How can the United States be a land open to…
