August 16, 2017
As a young girl, during my week-long Camp Fire Girls camping adventure away from home (the best part!), we learned a little song that preceded every announcement. It went like this, “Announcements, Announcements, Annou-ou-ou-ncements. A horrible death to die… A horrible death to be talked to death…
July 30, 2017
Special to the Catholic Business Journal—NAPA, CA – Alliance Defending Freedom’s (ADF) Kelly Fiedorek opened the second day of the Napa Institute with a panel discussion the “Future of Religious Freedom.” Her opening remarks provided context on both where we are and how religious freedom is a benefit to all. Four victims, constituting three cases,…
July 29, 2017
(CNA/EWTN News) In the last 24 hours more than twenty Catholic pages, some with millions of followers, have been blocked by Facebook for unknown reasons. Of the known affected pages, 21 are based in Brazil, and four are English-language pages, with administrators in the U.S. and Africa.
July 28, 2017
London, England—Charlie Gard died today. Charlie is the 11-month-old baby boy born in England who was diagnosed with a rare mitochondrial disease, a horrific disease that paralyzes muscles and causes brain damage. His was one of only 16 reported cases of this disease in the world. Little Charlie made national and international headlines when
July 28, 2017
“3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!” tweeted President Trump. The so-called “skinny” version of repealing Obamacare would have defunded Planned Parenthood by diverting millions of
LANSING, MI (CNA/EWTN News)—Faith-based adoption agencies won’t be able to adhere to their religious mission in Michigan if a lawsuit challenging state law succeeds, critics say. “This suit challenging Michigan’s law is mean-spirited, divisive and intolerant,” the Michigan Catholic Conference said Sept. 20. “It is counter-productive toward efforts to assist vulnerable persons and to promote a…
By Reggie Littlejohn WASHINGTON, D.C.—China’s coercive population control policy turns 37 this week (September 25). The news media touted the Two Child Policy as having “abandoned,” “ended” or “ditched” the One Child Policy. However, forced abortion, involuntary sterilization, the monitoring of women’s menstrual cycles, and the sex-selective abortion of baby girls continue. Over…
God Bless Mexico!! In the aftermath of Tuesday’s powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake—as collapsed buildings, shock, devastation and the unimaginable pain of suddenly discovering the fate of lost loved ones transform parts of Mexico City and the surrounding region into chaos, prayers of gratitude, and even survival mode, nonetheless heroes and radical moments of selfless kindness…
July 24, 2017
There are saints whose lives were inconspicuous and whose canonizations surprised some who thought they were unexceptional. There are others whose mystical gifts were so prodigious that they made every effort, sometimes amusingly as in the instance of Philip Neri, to distract attention from themselves.
July 15, 2017
WASHINGTON –A floral artist from Washington state asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to reverse a decision by the state’s high court which concluded that the government can force her—and, by extension, other creative professionals—to create artistic expression and participate in events with
July 4, 2017
“Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you.
We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.
June 30, 2017
YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast—There’s nothing on earth quite like the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. It is one of the tallest churches anywhere, with a 518-foot-high basilica that tops the Vatican’s St. Peter’s. Guinness World Records calls it the largest church in the world.
June 19, 2017
The 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China by the British is coming up in July 2017. You must see The Guardian‘s “Chalk Girl,” the girl at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Here’s why: We hear much talk of China’s economic
June 19, 2017
Our Lord’s admonition that much will be required of those to whom much has been given, applies most vividly to us. We have been given so much in the way of inventions and medicine and comparative wealth, but above all in knowledge of the world around us. No king in his silken bed at
June 16, 2017
Vatican News (CNA/EWTN News) – The General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops announced the launch of a new website for the upcoming synod on youth, and encouraged young people to take the survey available there.
June 5, 2017
The fire that Moses saw was not by any definition what we know as fire, for it did not burn the blazing bush. The light that shone from Christ in his Transfiguration was not what is light in the canons of natural physics, because it was of an intensity beyond accessible description without damaging the sight of Peter, James and John. Fifty days after the Resurrection, in the Upper Room, there was a noise “like” a driving wind and then flames “as of” fire shone over the heads of the apostles, but the description required similitudes because the noise and the flames were not a natural noise and
June 4, 2017
Less than two weeks after the Manchester suicide bombing and just three months after a terrorist ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing a policeman to death at Parliament, Saturday night, June 3, saw people scrambling amid two terrorist attacks – on the London Bridge and Borough Market. Video clips show
June 1, 2017
Bravo Coach Jasikevicius! EuroLeague pro basketball legend and current head coach for the pro basketball team Žalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian League, Coach Sarunas Jasikevicius flat stunned a reporter who repeatedly questioned why one of Jasikevicius’ star players didn’t play in the Semi Finals. Coach had let the player skip the game in order to be present at the birth of his first child. Standing at 6’4″, a former point guard, Coach Jasikevicius minced no words responding to the reporter, putting the
May 31, 2017
It is a wise policy, issuing from experience, and one hopes not from cynicism, to distrust email messages that begin by saying that the writer is “excited to share” something. Inevitably, this involves an overuse of exclamation points and much self-advertising. In religion, various movements keep pumping themselves up with
May 4, 2017
Today, May 4, marks the 2017 National Day of Prayer. This year’s theme is For Your Great Name’s Sake! Hear Us…Forgive Us…Heal Us!, inspired by the Scripture verse Daniel 9:19. This year the National Day of Prayer Washington DC Observance moved to an evening event that will be held from 7:30 to 9 pm ET, and can be live streamed on the National Day of Prayer website (see links at bottom of article). An even bigger announcement, however, is that today