What you need to know: Hong Kong, Haiti, and the synod that isn't...
In Hong Kong this weekend, pro-democracy activists, including newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai, were sentenced to prison terms for violating the 2020 National Security Law that restricts free speech and assembly in the Chinese territory. Lai, a Catholic convert, will spend 14 months in prison for attending civil rights and prayer rallies in 2019.
3rd Sunday of Easter: “You are witnesses of these things”...
This Sunday’s Gospel speaks to the necessity of becoming witnesses of Jesus’ resurrection Jesus. It begins with the necessary foundation of the Church’s proclamation: The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon! This solemn declaration forms the doctrinal certitude of the resurrection. On this foundation of the truth, the personal witness of every Catholic must be built...
For these working stiffs, it’s ambivalence rather than amore from the Pope...
One of Pope Francis’s signature innovations is the World Meeting of Popular Movements, a kind of Davos from the bottom up intended to give voice to grassroots organizations, including workers who are at risk or lack job security, all striving to correct what the pontiff has called an “economy of exclusion and inequality.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chelsea Clinton to headline May 6-8 healthcare conference hosted by Vatican...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chelsea Clinton, and the CEOs of Pharmaceutical manufacturers Moderna and Pfizer, which created leading COVID-19 vaccines, will be among the featured speakers at a healthcare conference next month co-hosted by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture.
The long, complex and mysterious life (and faith) of Prince Philip...
It’s a short scene from second season of “The Crown,” but certainly one the illustrates what the creators of the Netflix series thought of Prince Philip Mountbatten-Windsor — at least at one stage of his dramatic life. In 1955, while Graham was in Scotland leading a crusade in Glasgow, the Billy Graham received a note from Buckingham Palace...
4 lessons on fishing for men...
My 13 year old daughter and I went fishing recently. I was looking forward to this time with her, but after about 30 minutes of not catching any fish, she gave up. No coaxing could get her to fish anymore. Since she wasn’t catching anything, she thought fishing was pointless. Of course everybody who fishes will have times when no fish are caught...
15 uplifting quotes from Benedict XVI to celebrate his 94th birthday...
This Sunday: Jesus spends half of the Gospel proving the resurrection, and the other half explaining what it means for us...
After “Divine Mercy Sunday,” think of the Third Sunday of Easter, Year B, as “Trust Jesus Sunday.” The readings urge us to make a real break from sin — and it is a message badly needed in our time, which has been defined by nominal Christianity, and so many have claimed a Christian identity without changing their lives...
In open challenge to Church, German Catholics plan large blessing of gay unions on May 10...
No matter what you think about masks, here’s something every Christian needs to remember...
New book, new rules: Why Jordan Peterson wants to talk about God...
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5 amazingly gifted saints you didn’t know wrote poetry...
Major Archbishop: Ukrainians living in ‘psychological terror’ as Russian troops gather at border...
5 great Catholics have been sent to prison in Hong Kong. They are the confessors of our day...
On Friday April 16, in Hong Kong, nine top defenders of freedom were sentenced and put in prison. Five of them are Catholics. Father Gianni Criveller of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), a professor of theology who spent twenty-seven years in China, has met them in person and on the very day of their entry into prison...
God’s love, burning its way through history, is harsh and dreadful and merciful...
The Paschal Triduum this year seemed like a return from exile: Holy Thursday’s Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, in church; Good Friday’s Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion, in church; Saturday evening’s Easter Vigil, in church – what a blessing. Thanking God, I could only be aware of those for whom the exile continues...
4 qualities manifested by the Apostles just after Pentecost...
What Padre Pio saw in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918...
The Vatican financial draft rankings, a bishop “resigns,” and drinks with The Pillar...
Happy Birthday to the pope emeritus Benedict XVI, who turns 94 today. History will remember the theologian formerly known as Joseph Ratzinger for many reasons, but for me he will always be the pope who came to my office one day and changed my life. In 2010, I was working in the House of Commons and Pope Benedict was making a state visit to the UK...
As clouds of schism loom, Friday marks 94th birthday of Benedict XVI, “the anchor that kept Germany rooted in Christ”...
Did the Church place too many of her theological eggs in one Bavarian Easter basket? The question occurs as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI — born on Holy Saturday and baptized the same day in the newly-blessed Easter water — celebrates his 94th birthday tomorrow, April 16.
There is no contradiction whatsoever between affirming the existence of a loving God and the fact of human suffering...
Premier Christian Radio in the UK just sponsored a survey that investigated how the COVID crisis has affected religious beliefs and attitudes. There were three major findings—namely, that 67% of those who characterize themselves as “religious” found their belief in God challenged...
Brazil building new statue of Jesus even taller than Rio’s Christ the Redeemer...
Apparently, strangers shooting at nuns in an American convent isn’t news...
This woman founded a startup and grew rich and miserable. Now she’s a contemplative nun. See how she explained it to her former business partners...
Montserrat Medina Martínez was an up-and-coming woman in Spanish business. Despite being only 36, she has gone from success to success professionally. With a scholarship from Stanford, she created a Silicon Valley startup that she later sold to Pay Pal for several million and despite her youth, she was signed as a Deloitte partner.
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