Life

The joy of unexpected things

in a pivotal scene in evelyn waugh’s novel  brideshead revisited , the agnostic narrator and main character charles ryder interrogates ...
Ken Craycraft

The first Nowell

last year, my husband and i decided it would be best to stay in london and celebrate christmas at home. it was our daughter lily’s first chr...
lara prendergast

Campaign begins to recognise Brother Michael Strode, monk who founded the HCPT, as a 'modern-day saint'

a campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to lourdes. a mass celebrated at our lady o...
Simon Caldwell

The Father’s Christmas presence

there is something perpetually moving about the christmas story. it is the account of how god became man, and, with magnificent indifference...
The Catholic Herald

Open your homes to refugees fleeing the Taliban, bishop urges the faithful

catholics in england and wales are to be asked to find homes for thousands of afghanistan refugees fleeing the taliban. parishes will be req...
Simon Caldwell

Painting at center of George Floyd controversy stolen from Catholic University

a pieta painting displayed at the catholic university of america’s law school that some see as depicting george floyd in the place of jesus ...
Joseph Bukuras

Faith leaders unite to ‘Pray for Dobbs,’ the case that could overturn Roe v Wade

catholic, orthodox, and protestant christians recently united for a day of prayer in anticipation for an upcoming u.s. supreme court case co...
Katie Yoder

Catholic priest guillotined by Nazis is beatified in Poland

a catholic priest guillotined by the nazis in 1942 was declared blessed on saturday.  cardinal marcello semeraro, prefect of the congre...
Luke Coppen CNA

Breaking: Catholics injured in deadly parade crash in Waukesha, Wisconsin

a catholic priest, parishioners, and catholic school children were injured when an suv plowed into marchers during a christmas parade in wau...
CNA Staff

USCCB chairmen elections: Who came out on top?

members of the united states conference of catholic bishops elected six new chairmen-elect on nov. 16 at their fall general assembly in balt...
Christine-Rousselle