Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options

FaithFaith in Focus
Dave Mercer
34 years as a priest allow for a perspective no 19-year-old G.I. can have.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Alessandra Harris
Archbishop José Gomez’s speech on social justice movements displays a lack of understanding of Black Catholics and other groups too often at the margin of the church.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
You can cherish life and surrender it when you know that it is never insignificant, that your story matters, that you exist to love the author of our tale.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Released late Nov. 9, the 18th annual report from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection stated that 3,924 child sexual abuse survivors filed 4,228 allegations.
(iStock/Estradaanton)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kathleen Bonnette
Pregnancy transforms a woman’s body into one that supports another but nevertheless remains hers. This is too often overlooked in pro-life political arguments.
Members of the Archdiocese of Washington Youth Leadership Team pray during Mass for Life at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Jan. 29. (CNS photo/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard)
FaithNews
Robert David Sullivan
Nearly three-quarters of young U.S. Catholics say they can be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday, according to a new CARA survey.
Pope Francis greets a woman during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Nov. 10, 2021.
FaithSpeeches
Pope Francis
The prayer to the Holy Spirit is spontaneous: it needs to come from your heart. In difficult moments, you need to ask: “Holy Spirit, come.”
FaithFaith and Reason
Blase J. Cupich
Pope Francis wants all Catholics to recognize that Vatican II and its reforms are not only authentic actions of the Holy Spirit but also are in continuity with the tradition of the church.
Politics & SocietyNews
The Associated Press
A Cleveland-area Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to life in prison on convictions of child pornography and exploitation.
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Blessed Charles de Foucauld and six other candidates for sainthood finally will be canonized May 15, 2022, the Vatican announced Nov. 9.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
James T. Keane
Willie James Jennings belongs to a guild in which he never felt he belonged. How do we remake the world of theological education when it still holds up what Jennings calls "white self-sufficient masculinity" as the ideal?
FaithPodcasts
Gloria Purvis
Gloria Purvis speaks with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco about some of the most contested issues in the Catholic Church today.
FaithDispatches
Robert David Sullivan
The survey also found a perception that younger priests are “more theologically conservative or orthodox than their older counterparts.”
The charred interior of the San Gabriel Mission is damaged following a morning fire in San Gabriel, Calif, July 11, 2020.
Politics & SocietyNews
Alejandra Molina - Religion News Service
Since July 2020, the U.S.C.C.B. has tracked more than 105 incidents of vandalism of Catholic sites in the U.S., including arson, graffiti and defaced statues.
Politics & SocietyInterviews
Jim McDermott
For the last 17 years, Senator Durbin has been unable to receive Communion in his home diocese in Springfield, Ill.
Demonstrators confront law enforcement officers during a protest in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 28, 2021, against the verdict restricting abortion rights. After a ban on aborting disabled children came into force, Poland's Catholic Church urged "all possible help" for pregnant women and single mothers. (CNS photo/Kacper Pempel, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Bridget Ryder
A grassroots pro-life movement is emerging across the continent with elements that seem straight from the U.S. pro-life playbook. Could a U.S.-style culture war be brewing in Europe?
Politics & SocietyDispatches
J.D. Long García
If entire nations are falling short at combatting climate change, what can local communities and small churches hope to contribute? Well, a lot.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Zac Davis
Aaron Rodgers has provided a powerful reminder that religious problems like clericalism and gnosticism are not confined to the religious world.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Juan Vidal
I never thought choking another human could feel so akin to prayer, but here we are.
Children attend a Catholic Relief Services school in a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Herat. Photo courtesy of Kevin Hartigan/Catholic Relief Services.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
C.R.S. is beginning an emergency campaign to get food on tables and crops in the field as a hunger catastrophe looms in Afghanistan.