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Word on Fire
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Catholic News Service
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Rome Reports
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Whispers in the Loggia
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CHRIST CATHEDRAL, ORANGE COUNTY – "This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad." For a quarter-century, that verse of the Psalmist was Dr Robert Schuller's sign-on from...
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“Holy is the Church, the chosen vine of the Lord, whose branches fill the whole world, and whose tendrils, borne on the wood of the Cross, reach upward to the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed is the Church,
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By custom the "last day of school" at the Vatican – marking the end of the Curia's working year and opening the 10-week summer recess – the centerpiece of this feast of Saints Peter and...
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BALTIMORE – Normally, the end of a USCCB plenary tends to be more whimper than bang. For the millionth time, however, these days are anything but "normal"... and indeed, seeing a good few...
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BALTIMORE – Lest you're wondering what's going on, well, even the bench is trying to figure that out. For all yesterday's curveballs and tangents – Woodstock, anyone? – the fault-line on this plenary'
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Under normal circumstances, the June meeting of the US bishops travels to a different city each year, staffed by a skeleton crew and with barely a quorum of prelates on hand. Of course, however...
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As if the run-up to next week's USCCB plenary in Baltimore wasn't tense already, a round of fresh stories over the last 48 hours – capped by a brutal Washington Post report detailing the six-month...
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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Larry Downing, Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who served on the court for nearly 35 years, died July 16 in Fort...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By James Ramos HOUSTON (CNS) -- At the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo near Rome, Jesuit Brother Robert Macke finds his work as the curator of meteorites for the...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Trump administration announced the U.S. departments of Justice and Homeland Security are adopting an interim "third...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/ICE, Charles Reed via Reuters By Julie Asher WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Many Catholic and other faith leaders noted that the Gospel reading for July 14 -- the day U.S. Immigration and...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/A. Bracchetti, Governatorato S.C.V. via The Metropolitan Museum of Art By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is marking the 500th...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After current supplies run out, Vatican City State will no longer be selling any single-use plastic items on its tiny territory...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Dalia Khamissy By Doreen Abi Raad BEIRUT (CNS) -- The first time a band of Islamic State militants "visited" the monks, they presented the monks with a kind of suggestion...
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National Catholic Register
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By Matthew Archbold | We are marking the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. I suppose anything that has occurred could be considered part of history and therefore “historic” but...
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By K.V. Turley | At a remote location on the banks of Lake Geneva a horror-creation formed in the imagination of a teenage girl. It is a creation that still haunts the world. The nightmare vision was...
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By Sherry Antonetti | Being against abortion is part and parcel of being pro-life, but it is more than politics — it is how we treat the people we don’t see and the people we do. Just as “thou shalt...
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By Jim Graves | Franciscan University of Steubenville announced that two religious associated with the university, Fr. Gregory Plow, TOR and Brother Zachary Burns, TOR will compete July 27 in...
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By Father John P. Cush | The Evangelist Saint Mark tells us: And he went up into the hills, and called to him those whom he desired; and they came to him. And he appointed twelve,[ to be with...
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By Catholic News Agency | LONDON - Parents of a comatose five-year-old are attempting to move their child to Italy from a London hospital after doctors in the United Kingdom declared any further...
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By Kathy Schiffer | It’s summertime – and that means children are home from school and, too often, cries of “I'm bored!” can be heard around the house. It was the same when my children were small...
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News from the Vatican
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The Vatican and the U.S. will co-host a summit on religious freedom.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with a painting by the artist that will draw crowds but also pay solemn tribute to the...
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After current supplies run out, Vatican City State will no longer be selling any single-use plastic items on its tiny territory.
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With global religious persecution increasingly thrust into the international spotlight, members of several Christian communities suffering violence and discrimination have said promises are no longer...
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The Community of Sant'Egidio and the United States Agency for International Development have signed an agreement to collaborate in promoting peace, interreligious dialogue and anti-poverty efforts in...
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