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Catholic Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes leads a re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross during the Lenten season at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, on March 17, 2023. Catholics staged the devotional commemoration in the gardens of the cathedral due to the police ban on celebrating religious festivities on the streets. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon)
The Ortega regime‘s ban on religious processions during Lent is only the latest action to effectively criminalize Catholicism in Nicaragua. Catholics in the U.S. must assist refugees and fight anti-religious authoritarianism.
If “Succession” ends as a sort of Shakespearean tragedy, as all signs thus far have suggested that it will, this week’s episode may well be the moment we look back on as that tragedy’s core.
archbishop broglio celebrates mass wearing purple on ash wednesday with two other priests next to him, they are at the altar
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center abruptly ended a long-standing contract with a community of Franciscan priests before Holy Week began, a move Archbishop Timothy Broglio called "incomprehensible."
He asked Christ to help the international community “to make haste to surmount our conflicts and divisions, to open our hearts to those in greatest need” and “to pursue paths of peace and fraternity.”
A young woman weeps against an ambulance as a loved one is treated by medics after a fire broke out at the Mexican Immigration Detention center in Ciudad Juárez on Monday, March, 27, 2023. (Omar Ornelas/The El Paso Times via AP)
On March 27, 40 men died in a fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez. The appalling loss of life has many more authors than the people likely to be punished for it.
The Notre Dame Folk Choir
The Notre Dame Folk Choir was like a family I did not want to leave behind.
Ciaran Freeman
More than the costumes and settings, it is that humanity at the heart of Molly Shannon’s comedy which makes it Catholic to the core.
a bishop in a red chasuble and white hat makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a 20-something woman being confirmed, many people are behind her
Many young Catholics I know were compelled to be confirmed by family members who felt the sacrament was important. My situation was the opposite—I was confirmed of my own volition.
Finding our place in the cosmos—whether that be via moon landings or our human origins in stardust—has been the subject of more than a few America articles.
a painting of the resurrected christ against a blue background
For the early church, the reality of the Resurrection was central, not only in the structure of the liturgical celebration, but also in the pattern of the liturgical year. Easter was the greatest feast of the whole year.