Cardinal Sarah: The Catholic Church’s Enduring Answer to the Practical Atheism of Our Age
Address by Cardinal Sarah at the Napa Institute—…My address – “The Catholic Church’s Enduring Answer to the Practical Atheism of our Age” – reflects well your mission: to prepare leaders to bring truth, faith, and value into the modern world through liturgy, formation, and community. First, however, I would like to say something about the …
SAINTS AT WORK: St. Irenaeus of Lyon, the legacy of the early Church father and doctor of unity
As a boy, St. Irenaeus of Lyon sat at the feet of St. Polycarp, eagerly listening to the sermons of the early Christian bishop and disciple of the apostle John. Irenaeus grew up to write vastly influential documents that witnessed to the early Church’s understanding of topics ranging from the Old Testament to the Eucharist.…
‘Open the doors’ of the Church, Pope Francis implores on solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul
CNA/Vatican Media—On the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Francis invited the Catholic faithful — including the recently appointed metropolitan archbishops who received their blessed pallium today — to “open the doors” of the Church and follow the example of the two great apostles of Rome so that all people can know and experience…
‘It’s filled me with so much hope’: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage passes through Wisconsin
CNA—Bells chimed in the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, this week, marking the entrance of Jesus in the Eucharist into the southeastern corner of the state. The light of the overcast evening was fading as pilgrims gathered for a Holy Hour of Eucharistic adoration on Tuesday at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, a parish community founded 126…
Supreme Court overturns ‘Chevron’ doctrine with big implications for religious liberty
CNA—The Supreme Court on Friday, June 28, 2024, overturned a 40-year-old decision that gave unelected federal agencies considerable power to interpret federal law, with significant implications for religious freedom. The high court in its Friday decision in the case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturned the 1984 ruling in Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council,…
‘The Wild Goose’ is Moving across the U.S., National Eucharistic Pilgrimage
The Wild Goose (a moniker for the Holy Spirit during a time of persecution in the Middle Ages) is indeed moving across the U.S.—quietly igniting burning flames of Divine Love in individual hearts in surprising ways — as the four routes of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage weave their way across the country. Renewed devotion to…
Vatican Preparations for Holy Year 2025—the Jubilee of Hope—are well underway
On May 9, 2024, Pope Francis read the bull Spes Non Confundit (Hope Does Not Disappoint) in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, convening the Ordinary Jubilee of Hope 2025, an event that occurs only once every 25 years in the Catholic Church. Basically, a “bull” is a document that outlines the spirit of the…
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage marches through extreme heat to bring Jesus to the people
Amid a brutal heat wave in the Midwest and Northeast this week, the pilgrims on each of the four legs of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage have all passed what is roughly the halfway point on their journeys to Indianapolis. Where are each of the four pilgrimages at this point in their journey? The four pilgrimage…
The Nun in a Tent: Meet the Ventura, California, Nun who’s Following the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage
CNA—The Serra Route (the Western route) of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage passes through Denver and part of the perpetual pilgrims includes one unofficial pilgrim from California. In her day-to-day life, Sister Mary Rose Chinn of the Handmaids of the Triune God works with public school kids in Ventura, California, a coastal city northwest of Los…
Catholic pilgrims at Pittsburgh processions evangelize about Christ and the Eucharist
CNA—As hundreds of Catholic pilgrims processed through the streets of Pittsburgh as part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, some of the faithful saw the procession as an opportunity to evangelize about Jesus Christ and the Catholic doctrine that he is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. Pilgrims on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, traveling across the…
Mother Angelica’s shrine fills to capacity as National Eucharistic Pilgrimage passes through
CNA—“I live because of the Eucharist,” Mother Angelica once said. The foundress of EWTN and member of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, Mother Angelica made no secret of her love and devotion to the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist. On Thursday, more than eight years after her death, the legacy of Mother…
2024-06-22
Optional Memorial of St. John Fisher, Bishop and Martyr and St. Thomas More, Martyr