Catholic Church

Texas Catholics press through winter storm to help neighbors

denver newsroom, feb 18, 2021 / 12:26 am mt ( cna ) .- amid a winter storm that brought freezing temperatures and widespread power outages t...
Jonah McKeown

A strange complaint: Pope Francis's speech to the Rota

pope francis recently lamented the fact that a declaration of matrimonial nullity “is thought of as a cold act, a mere ‘legal decision’.” in...
Charles Collins

Court frees kidnapped Pakistani Christian girl

a 12-year-old pakistani christian girl who had been kidnapped, held in bondage, forced to convert and marry a 45-year-old man, is home after...
Staff Reporter

Irish faith leaders decry Chinese treatment of ethnic Uyghur Muslims

more than fifty irish faith leaders -- including several catholic figures -- have signed a statement condemning the persecution of the uyghu...
Staff Reporter

Pope Francis praises Coptic Orthodox martyrs as 'saints of all Christians'

vatican city, feb 15, 2021 / 11:01 am mt ( cna ) .- pope francis has praised the courageous witness of the 21 coptic orthodox christians kil...
Hannah Brockhaus

Winter Diary: Light and heat

i go to check the beehive and close it up for winter; put up a zinc mouse guard, a strap around the hive to prevent the roof blowing off. th...
Sasha Swire

Irish bishops decry bill to legalize euthanasia

cna staff, feb 13, 2021 / 04:58 pm mt ( cna ) .- catholic leaders and human rights advocates have expressed concern over a bill that would l...
CNA Staff

The Rome church where you can venerate St. Valentine’s skull

rome, italy, feb 14, 2021 / 02:00 am mt ( cna ) .- when most people think of romantic love, a third-century skull crowned with flowers proba...
Hannah Brockhaus

John Ryan – gently lampooning the Catholic sixties

i did not know that captain pugwash was a catholic until i recently encountered him making his confession—of the sin of envy, at the success...
Serenhedd James

The Politics of Synods

there has been swooning in the media over pope francis’s appointment of a french woman religious, sr nathalie becquart, as one of two new un...
Adam A.J. DeVille