By Mark Pattison – Catholics hear hymns in church and on Catholic stations, but rarely on commercial airwaves. Now they can augment their weekly diet of hymnody through a new free audio streaming service called Great Catholic...
The sainthood cause of Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boy’s Town, took a step forward with the presentation of the “positio” to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes, along with a letter of...
By James Ramos – At the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo near Rome, Jesuit Brother Robert Macke finds his work as the curator of meteorites for the Vatican Observatory – formally founded in 1891...
Bishops / Globalisation of Indifference / Synod
by CNS · Published July 23, 2019 · Last modified July 22, 2019
By Junno Arocho Esteves – The objective of the upcoming Synod of Bishops for the Amazon is to highlight the need for religious, political and social leaders to come together and defend the dignity...
I didn’t realise there was a moon-landing Bible verse until my priest mentioned it a few weeks ago. It seems that while returning from the historic first landing on the moon 50 years ago,...
Church / Religious Life / Women and the Church
by CNS · Published July 22, 2019 · Last modified July 18, 2019
By Cindy Wooden – Pope Francis named six superiors of women’s religious orders, a consecrated laywoman and the superior of the De La Salle Christian Brothers to be full members of the Congregation for Institutes...
By Doreen Abi Raad – The first time a band of Islamic State militants “visited” the monks, they presented the monks with a kind of suggestion, in a nonthreatening manner: “Why don’t you become...
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Pope Francis will declare Bl John Henry Newman, the 19th-century British cardinal, a saint on October 13. The British theologian will be canonised during a Mass at the Vatican,...
By Cindy Wooden – Opening the Vatican tombs of a princess and a duchess July 11 in a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, the Vatican...
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Announcing the themes for the next three World Youth Day celebrations, Pope Francis called on young men and women to meditate on the path of Christian life that God has...
By Cindy Wooden – The Vatican City State tribunal has ordered the opening of two tombs in a small Vatican cemetery at the request of the family of Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who...
By Cindy Wooden – In what Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople described as a “brave and bold” gesture, Pope Francis gave the patriarch a famous reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St....
