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To invest in the future, invest in young people, Pope Francis says in Bulgaria
on the first day of a trip to bulgaria, pope francis encouraged authorities to strengthen and grow their country by investing in opportuniti...
Catholic News Agency
Pope to Bulgarian Catholics: God uses imperfect people
the lord works with imperfect situations and imperfect people, so persevere in holiness, pope francis encouraged catholics in bulgaria sunda...
Catholic News Agency
Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/05/19
jesus “does not expect to encounter people without problems, disappointments, sins or limitations” , pope francis said at mass in the bulgar...
Luke Coppen
Pope Francis' Bulgaria trip will have an ecumenical focus
pope francis said friday that his visit to bulgaria next week will be a pilgrimage of faith, unity, and peace, with an ecumenical focus. “my...
Courtney Grogan/CNA
Pope Francis tells Argentine bishops he wants to visit homeland
pope francis has told a group of argentine bishops on pilgrimage in rome that, although he wants to visit his homeland, current obligations ...
Junno Arocho Esteves
Analysis: The weaknesses of the papal heresy letter
on april 30, a group of 19 catholics released an open letter to the bishops of the world, accusing the pope of heresy and demanding that the...
Ed Condon/CNA
Christian persecution 'near genocide levels'
the worldwide persecution of christians is at near “genocide” level, a report for the british government has said the review, led by the ang...
Nick Hallett
Public Masses suspended for second week in Sri Lanka
following terrorist attacks and ongoing threats to safety, masses will be suspended in the archdiocese of colombo for a second week, catholi...
Catholic News Agency
Right to life a 'core value' of newly-launched Irish political party
the leader of a new political party that spans both ireland and northern ireland promised to uphold the right to life as a key value at the ...
Catholic News Agency
Neo-paganism is at the dark heart of the alt-right movement
katie mchugh, who gained fame as a provocateur of the white nationalist “alt-right,” has left the movement. in a recent interview , mchugh’s...
C C Pecknold
Venezuelan National Guard attacks church during Mass
members of the venezuelan national guard attacked a catholic church in san cristobal wednesday, amid nationwide protests against the governm...
Catholic News Agency
Morning Catholic must-reads: 03/05/19
an archbishop has said that “christians are being killed like chickens” in northwestern nigeria. sunday masses have been cancelled again in ...
Luke Coppen
If Kate Smith's statue falls, what about Margaret Sanger's?
the past few years have witnessed in these united states an orgy of something once thought confined to revolutionary dictatorships: the mass...
Charles Coulombe
Gene Wolfe: a Catholic from the far future
gene wolfe, who died last week at the age of 87, imagined vast, strange worlds in his fiction – and revealed them in flickering glimpses. hi...
David Randall and Christopher Welser
Could Catholic adoption agencies be declared illegal?
yet another city’s catholic adoption agencies were forced to shut down last week, this time in pennsylvania, where a federal judge ruled tha...
Jordan Bloom
Prize Crossword 0591
cryptic across 6 how the angel appeared to end maria’s torment? (2,1,5) 8 staggering move to gain influence (4) 9 close, and familiar with k...
Alun Evans
How to be a practising mystic
“i’m a practising mystic.” a woman said that in one of my classes some years ago and it raised lots of eyebrows. i was teaching a class in m...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Sir Roger and the clash of cultures
i went last weekend to the inaugural buckingham history festival. it was held by the university of buckingham, under the aegis of its vice-c...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
Heretic of the Week: John Knox
john knox (c 1512-1572) was born sometime between 1505 and 1515 in haddington, scotland. he is thought to have studied at either the univers...
Charles Coulombe
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, may 5: the third sunday of easter acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; ps 30; rev 5:11-14; jn 21:1-19 monday, ...
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