Pope Francis addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his general audience on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Aug 28, 2024 / 11:06 am (CNA).
Pope Francis said Wednesday those who knowingly and intent… […]
In 1960, then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy set a standard for Catholic politicians seeking federal office in a nation still viscerally anti-Catholic. In a speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts […]
Bishop Ireton High School upperclassmen welcome freshman students on their first day of school for the 2024-2025 phone-free school year. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Bishop Ireton High School
CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
As K–12 stu… […]
“Inculturation” has been a Catholic buzzword for over a half-century. It’s not the most elegant neologism, smacking as it does of sociologese. Still, it expresses a truth of Catholic missionary practice two millennia old: the […]
American Providentialism – “Since its birth, providentialism—the belief that God actively governs human events according to his design and purposes—has been in America’s DNA.” Would God Stop an Assassin’s Bullet? A Reflection on American Providentialism […]
St. Augustine of Hippo. / Credit: Cathopic
CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The Catholic Church honors St. Augustine of Hippo, an early Church father, doctor of the Church, and foundational theologian, on Aug. 28.Augustine was brought … […]
In the comments to my CWR article on different translations of the Confessions, a reader related the common experience of trying to read Augustine and giving up. “The time to read and digest the Confessions […]
Editor’s note: Reverend Nicholas L. Gregoris, 52, of the Priestly Society of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, passed away unexpectedly on August 21, 2024. A contributor to Catholic World Report, he had also written for […]
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 27, 2024 / 18:27 pm (CNA).
The Catholic Conference of Ohio has said a court’s temporary elimination of a 24-hour waiting period for abortion shows a “callous disregard” … […]
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 27, 2024 / 17:27 pm (CNA).
A New York court has temporarily blocked the state’s attorney general’s efforts to keep a group of faith-based pregnancy centers from promotin… […]
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