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Healing the American divide

it has been a long time since american catholics could expect to see the country’s president attending weekly mass, but it’s happening now. ...

The Catholic Herald

Albrecht Dürer – a traveller's tale

when the national gallery announced their spring show dürer’s journeys: travels of a renaissance artist more than a year ago, they could not...

The year of rewilding ourselves

early on during his custodianship of the garden of eden, adam was tasked with naming the birds and beasts – and presumably bees, too. simon ...

As Fr Pfleger abuse inquiry continues, Chicago archdiocese counters 'misconceptions' of priest's supporters

chicago, ill., feb 25, 2021 / 07:01 pm mt ( cna ) .- defenders of outspoken activist priest fr. michael pfleger are wrong to claim an invest...

Charting my road to Rome

breathing the light scent of spring air admixed with incense, the priest’s words from exodus rolling like an elixir into our ears and the fe...

Archbishop Cordileone commends prosecution of Serra statue vandals for working justice

denver newsroom, feb 22, 2021 / 07:01 pm mt ( cna ) .- amid calls from california activists to drop vandalism charges against five assailant...

Catholic News Agency

Rowan Williams on his debt to Catholics

growing up in wales in the 1950s, you still couldn’t quite avoid the sense that catholics were exotic and a bit frightening. people of my gr...

Pope Francis appoints new archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica

vatican city, feb 20, 2021 / 06:18 am mt ( cna ) .- pope francis on saturday named cardinal mauro gambetti, o.f.m. conv., to succeed cardina...

Hannah Brockhaus

Now is the Acceptable Time

if the 21 coptic martyrs of libya are "saints for all christians" -- as pope francis says -- then why not grant permission for their venerat...

Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman

Ash Wednesday: ...et in pulverem reverteris.

this is the day the church puts on ashes to make the beginning of our great season of penitence. traditionally, this sign of penitence is he...