On October 20, a 25-year-old convert to Islam named Martin Couture-Rouleau ran down two Canadian soldiers, killing one and injuring the other. In the chase that followed, his car ran into a ditch and he […]
“Not only is it wrong to take the life of another, but it is also wrong to bestow the poison of anger upon him, strike him with slander, and speak ill of him.” — Pope […]
Just last month, my media ministry Word on Fire marked a milestone: 10,000,000 views on our YouTube channel. This achievement fills me with gratitude both to God and to the many people who have taken […]
Last Saturday, the synod closed with the voting on the final report and with a final address by the Pope, which was greeted with a prolonged standing ovation. The week of high drama ended with […]
The walk took us down muddy tracks and alongside great fields of sugar-beet and golden, waving wheat. We were heading for an ancient shrine, and we walked the ancient ways—routes mapped out centuries ago and […]
Vatican City (kath.net) On October 19, 2014, Pope Paul VI (d. 1978) was beatified. During the beatification by Pope Francis a reliquary was brought to the altar. The historian and Vaticanist Ulrich Nersinger, who has […]
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, was an active participant in this month’s Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme “The Pastoral Challenges of […]
MPAA Rating, R USCCB Rating, O Reel Rating, As I exited the theater after seeing David Fincher’s latest film, Gone Girl, a cheerful usher asked a dazed patron if she […]
Sankt Pölten (kath.net), October 18, 2014 “Not much is said in the media about the beatification of Paul VI, although along with John XXIII he is great Pope of the Council. He continued the Council […]
Francis X. Rocca of CNS has a report for CNS on a speech by Benedict XVI, delivered on October 21st to faculty and students of Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome; the address was read by […]
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