As pro-life people, we know that the preborn child is truly present within his mother’s body from the first cell onward. There is no point throughout a woman’s pregnancy when a child is not really […]
The Church calls this day by two names: Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday. The first, for victory—the name most people recognize, not surprisingly; the second, for suffering—the one most folks would sooner forget. But in […]
The choir, clergy and guests stand during the ceremony to mark the reopening of Notre-Dame of Paris Cathedral on Dec. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. After five years of restoration, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris reopened its doors to the world in th… […]
Readings: • At the procession with palms, Gospel: Lk 19:28-4 • Is 50:4-7 • Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil 2:6-11 • Lk 22:14—23:56 It is done. We have judged our God and have […]
MPAA Rating: G USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels It’s been less than a month since The Last Supper, but already there’s another major […]
“I have heard some great sermons throughout my life on truth and on goodness, [but] not enough on beauty yet,” says the celebrated Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan, shown here conducting The Catholic University of America Chorale on April 9… […]
Our Lenten trek with the saints invoked in the old Confiteor includes “the holy Apostles, Peter and Paul.” Last week we considered Peter; this week, we look at Paul. Like Peter, Paul had a checkered […]
A British Mill Hill missionary who was kidnapped in Cameroon’s war-torn Northwest region on Tuesday, April 1, has been released. Huub Welters, 83, and assistant Henry Kang were released Friday, April 4, according to a […]
The Missionaries of Charity convent located on the compound of Holy Family Parish, the only Catholic church in Gaza, was damaged by rocket fire on Dec. 16, 2023. / Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
CNA Staff, Apr 9, 2025 / 17:11 pm (CNA)…. […]
After defining, within strict limits, the infallibility of papal teaching on faith and morals, the First Vatican Council intended to take up the parallel question of the authority of bishops in the Church. But the Franco-Prussian […]
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