When Pope Francis surprised the Catholic world on October 7, 2021, announcing that he was about to make Saint Irenaeus of Lyon a Doctor of the Church, the reasons he gave weren’t that surprising. After […]
Pope Francis meets with a group of women who escaped criminal organizations in Italy on Oct. 30, 2023, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 30, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis on Monday encouraged a group of women who e… […]
This Cross painted on wood initially hung in the Church of San Damiano, situated half way between hillside town of Assisi above and the Spoletan Valley below. It came to prominence when Jesus spoke to […]
“Brace yourself!” reads one of those memes going around Catholic Twitter that shows the actor Sean Bean as Tolkien’s Boromir looking into the wind. It continues, “Bad Mary Magdalene takes are coming.” Though I prepared […]
Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ, has long had a reputation for liberal-speak and theological confusion. For example, in a column he wrote for the National Catholic Reporter at the end of January 2023, Reese wrote “I […]
For atheists, the Old Testament is a collection of ancient myths, and the New Testament an inconsistent and plainly fraudulent record presented as objective history, the work of many lying hands shamelessly proffered by the […]
Having reviewed the republication of Henri de Lubac’s book The Church: Paradox and Mystery, I had to accept that space constraints prevented me from discussing at more length a part of the text that moved […]
Nancy Pelosi, the radically pro-abortion Speaker of the House, is barred from communion. After the announcement by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, the internet lit up with complaints that was contrary to the […]
Hell is often depicted in Christian art as a place of unspeakable physical torments where the unrepentant sinner receives his or her just punishments for various moral perfidies and offenses against the law of God. […]
Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address at the Vatican, Oct. 31, 2021. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Oct 31, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Sunday urged Catholics to read, reread, and be passionate about the Gospel.In his Angelus addr… […]
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