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The Big Story: Speculation mounts over Vatican constitution
what happened? more details have emerged about possible changes to the vatican’s constitution. the spanish magazine vida nueva published det...
Staff writers
IRS grants Satanic Temple recognition as a 'church'
a satanic group has announced they have been granted recognition as a church by the internal revenue service. in a statement published thurs...
Catholic News Agency
A liberating joy: Easter in Kinshasa
every holy week begins with the celebration of palm sunday. for us in the democratic republic of congo (drc), there is no shortage of palm l...
Antoine Roger Lokongo
Prize crossword 0590
cryptic across 6 steal, and the old testament requires death in the end: he was stoned (6) 8 book about one son of abraham, virtually the fi...
Alun Evans
There are three different kinds of spirituality. We need them all
where should we be casting our eyes? upward, downward, or just on the road that we’re walking? well, there are different kinds of spirituali...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The Resurrection is only the beginning
second sunday of easter acts 5:12-16; rev 1:9-13 & 17-19; john 20:19-31 (year c) the gospels conclude with the resurrection of jesus on ...
Bishop David McGough
St Paul VI's other earth-shaking encyclical
sent to proclaim the gospels by jim mcmanus cssr, redemptorist publications, 164pp, £12.99/$15 pope paul vi’s great encyclical on evangelisa...
Fr Denis Blackledge SJ
Surviving Nazism with help from Bach
one hundred miracles by zuzana růžičková (with wendy holden) bloomsbury, 368pp, £18.99/$25 holocaust survivor stories follow a regrettably (...
Michael White
In praise of Notre-Dame's 8,000-pipe organ
devastation and disbelief was our response when we watched the gothic cathedral notre-dame de paris ablaze, shorn of its collapsed spire and...
Jens F Laurson
A fresco to guide us through these dark times
on the first easter morning, christ’s followers were mourning, and his despairing apostles hid in a locked room. the broken and bloodied cor...
Michele Bregande
A terrible pope but a patron of genius
pope julius ii, the “warrior pope”, was the most successful – and fortunate – artistic patron of the high renaissance in rome. but we cannot...
Stephen Withnell
Best of the web: The response to the Notre-Dame fire
parisians knelt to pray, even as the flames rose at his blog, william newton reflected on the scenes in paris after the fire broke out. “hun...
The Catholic Herald
For music lovers, Versailles is the place to spend Holy Week
catholics will, one hopes, have spent the easter triduum on their knees with open hearts. but those who also managed open ears might have ob...
Michael White
Pope Francis: If you do not forgive, God will not forgive you
to stop the spread of evil in the world, catholics must go above and beyond, loving and forgiving others even when it is undeserved, pope fr...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
When it comes to curial reform, one dicastery must always reign supreme
a senior papal adviser let slip that the reform of the vatican bureaucracy with which his electors tasked pope francis at the start of his p...
Christopher R. Altieri
Why did our secular elites refuse to call the Sri Lanka martyrs Christians?
many were surprised by the arm’s length way in which many politicians described catholic martyrs in the sri lanka bombings. yet as william c...
C C Pecknold
Pontius Pilate couldn't wash the guilt from his own hands. None of us can
millions breathed a collective sigh of relief to learn that the relic of the crown of thorns was saved from notre dame de paris. where did i...
C C Pecknold
Cardinal Tobin: Catechism language 'very unfortunate' on homosexuality
the archbishop of newark said wednesday that the language used by the catechism of the catholic church to describe homosexual acts is “very ...
Catholic News Agency
Pope Francis urges inmates to be at service to one another
pope francis celebrated the mass of the lord’s supper at a prison in the suburbs of rome thursday, urging the inmates to reflect on how they...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Easter: a season for singing and dancing
the sacred triduum is behind us, with its shadows, deprivation and purifying lamentation. renewed, we now enter a liturgical season of light...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
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