CNA—Elon Musk, the CEO of X and SpaceX and one of the richest men in the world, announced that he will move both multibillion-dollar companies out of California because he opposes a new law that hides information from parents about their child’s gender identity. The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, prohibits school…
VN—The Vatican Secretary of State is in Ukraine from 19 – 24 July. The cardinal is to preside over Mass at the Marian Shrine of Berdychiv for the concluding celebration of the pilgrimage of Ukrainian Latin Rite Catholics. The visit of the Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to Ukraine, starting on Friday, July 19,…
July 17, 2024—Today the National Eucharistic Congress comes together at Lucas Oil stadium, Indianapolis, where the pilgrimage from the four corners across the United States of America converge! There are crowds of pilgrims lining up to enter the stadium to witness a Eucharistic revival, a historic moment in the life of the Church that took…
CNA—A Christian employee has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Fire Department in which he alleges he was subjected to “retaliation” and “religious discrimination” for refusing to raise a well-known Pride theme flag while he was working. A veteran county employee, Captain Jeffrey Little alleges that the fire department violated his religious freedom…
CNA—Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, said on Thursday that the protests making national headlines at the New York City school are being organized in part by “explicitly communist” outside forces. “There is an instrumentalization of what’s going on in Gaza to advance an agenda,” he said. “And that is to deconstruct…
CNA—“The good makes no noise,” St. Francis de Sales would say of Lille’s candlelight Mass. Indeed, while France regularly shows itself to be at the forefront of the de-Christianization of the West and recently made headlines for its constitutionalization of abortion, the embers of Christian renewal are already igniting — quietly yet powerfully — on…
The year was 1891. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution sweeping the Western world at the time, radical changes were taking place in society regarding working conditions, property ownership, government responsibility vs. individual responsibility, and most fundamentally regarding the critical importance of recognizing the dignity of each individual human person. Looking at these social…
CNA—In a “resounding victory” for religious freedom, a court in North Dakota ruled this week that the federal government cannot compel religious employers and health care providers to pay for or perform “gender transition” procedures that go against their religious beliefs. The North Dakota District Court found that the religious beliefs of Christian Employers Alliance…
CNA—Voters in Ireland appear to have voted to preserve the country’s constitutional recognition of the central role of the traditional family founded on marriage as well as the societal value of women within the home, rejecting a pair of referendums held March 8, pro-referendum government leaders conceded Saturday. “It does look like a ‘no’ vote…
U.S. Catholic—As we rethink work post-pandemic, consider Catholic social teaching. Modern Catholic social thought is typically dated back to Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor). It’s not that Catholicism had never dealt with social ethics before, of course, but the pope’s discussion marked a new level of reflection that considered…
WSJ—If Macy Gunnell, a sophomore at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Ind., hadn’t been listening during her shift at the school’s admissions office, she might have missed the news: The all-women’s Catholic college was planning to admit trans-identifying men the next academic year. That would have undermined 180 years of school tradition, not to…
ACI Prensa—Four bishops from the Mexican state of Guerrero recently met with members of organized crime in an effort to seek peace in a region shaken by violent clashes and death. During a Feb. 14 press conference, Bishop José de Jesús González of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa said that the prelates of the area “began…
Rev. Calvin Robinson, a British, fairly young Anglican cleric and a new deacon, commentator, writer and broadcaster; a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and more, accepted an invitation to participate in a “debate” at the Oxford Union. His talk went viral. Combining faith, intelligence, British wit and charm, he delivered a…
Homily at the Mass for the Walk for Life West Coast; Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary the New Eve Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, January 20, 2024 — Readings: Rev 21:1-5a; Is 61:10a-d, f, 11; 62:2-3; Jn 2:1-11 The entrance chant for our Mass today – “All the earth will worship…
CNA—UPDATED 01/17/23—The Permanent Council of the French Bishops’ Conference has expressed carefully delineated support for the Fiducia Supplicans declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on pastoral blessings. In a Jan. 10 statement, the French Bishops Council acknowledged that the declaration addresses a sensitive topic, namely “the accompaniment in the Church for…
In this week’s episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Ed Kopetsky, former CIO of Stanford Health about navigating addiction, which is the leading cause of death today. It derails lives and careers, and destroys familes. Kopetsky lost his 31-year-old son to an overdose and shares his learnings from being on the…
CNA—The SEEK24 Catholic conference, put on by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), wrapped up this week in St. Louis, having attracted some 24,000 people for talks, workshops, and worship, including a massive session of Eucharistic adoration. As impressive as it was to have a group that size gathered to adore the Eucharistic Jesus,…
CNA—Traditionally on the feast of Epiphany, Catholics bless their homes by writing the letters C, M, and B and the numbers of the year on either side — so this year it would look like “20+C+M+B+24.” The letters stand for the tradtional names of the three Magi: Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar. They also represent the…
Dearest Brothers and Sisters, May the Lord give you Peace! Tonight’s Gospel echoes the voice of a deep feeling, which I believe we all share: “there was no room for them” (Lk. 2:7). As it was for Mary and Joseph so it seems for us today that there is no room for Christmas. For too…
“We live in such a safe environment that we get disconnected from nature, and people don’t appreciate how most of the world lives,” says Michael Core, a member of the Thomas Aquinas College (TAC) President’s Council from Thousand Oaks, California. “I wanted to give an experience to a TAC graduate that would take them way…
