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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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(Updated with video, further context.) The simple fact that you're reading this is testament to the reality behind today's lead story: given the shifts of the last two decades, it can be argued that...
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Well, folks, if this last week hasn't made for a full cycle – indeed, another one – few things ever will... so much for the beat grinding to a halt. To be sure, the usual July lull will still kick in...
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It might be apocryphal, but a story from the first weeks of the rule of Francis nonetheless resonates five years after the fact. In sum, after Papa Bergoglio read in the papers about the near-daily...
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As an op with the early word put it on Tuesday, "this is going to be big" – and indeed it is: in a move without precedent for the 500 year-old Roman Curia, the Pope has entrusted the...
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In the works for quite some time from his seat on the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Blase Cupich's much-anticipated backup has arrived – at Roman Noon, the Pope named three auxiliary bishops for...
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For all the statements the leadership of the US' largest religious body might issue, moments like these are the thing that'll actually be remembered. After a quickly arranged whirlwind tour that...
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Less than three weeks since Cardinal Joe Tobin of Newark called for a delegation of US bishops to head to the Mexican border in a show of solidarity with immigrant families being separated there, the...
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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis added an Italian teenager to the list of people he will formally recognize as saints Oct. 14 during the monthlong meeting of the...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Dan Rogers By Valerie Schmalz NAPA, Calif. (CNS) -- Americans continue to pursue "this ridiculous path" of "unlinking sex and marriage and kids, while calling what is...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Amigos for Christ By Priscilla Greear BUFORD, Ga. (CNS) -- The Buford-based Amigos for Christ nonprofit serving Nicaragua's poorest has canceled all summer mission trips due...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Juan Medina, Reuters By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) -- Tweeting with hashtags that translate as "Closed ports" and "Open hearts," Italy's interior minister disputed...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters By MANAGUA, Nicaragua (CNS) -- Police and paramilitaries in Nicaragua have attacked another parish in an indigenous community as churches and clergy come under...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With large sheets of plain plywood blocking public access to the Holy Stairs, one woman lovingly touched a large color photograph of...
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IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) -- The "prosperity gospel" that U.S. President Donald Trump and many of his advisers and followers seem to espouse does not promote...
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National Catholic Register
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By Elisabeth Deffner | The Sennott family was excited about their youngest son’s school. St. Patrick’s was close enough to mom Andrea’s Portsmouth, New Hampshire, law office that she could easily...
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By CNA/EWTN News | KOLKATA, India — The superior general of the Missionaries of Charity said Tuesday the congregation is “deeply saddened and grieved” by the alleged sale of several children by an...
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By Catholic News Agency | WASHINGTON — Subcommittees at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have approved more than $6 million for pastoral projects in Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. The..
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By Jonathan Liedl | I’ve known Oscar for only a couple days, but I already think he has some gifts that would make him a great priest. The 19-year-old seminarian, who is just finishing his second...
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By E. Christian Brugger | Q. The Catholic voice on immigration seems to me one-sided: bishops suggesting canonical penalties on Catholic border control personnel, pastoral visits to the border to...
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By Peter Jesserer Smith | Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, former prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments under St. John Paul II, has written a new book...
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By K.V. Turley | Is he or is he not on the road to being canonized? In the coming weeks, the fate of Gilbert Keith Chesterton will be known. Soon, all eyes will turn upon Canon John Udris as he...
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News from the Vatican
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A formal call for testimony has been issued, the first step of an investigation into the possible sainthood of Chiara Corbella Petrillo, a young Italian mother who died in 2012.
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A team of Vatican restorers are completing the final phase of a 20-year effort to repair the sanctuary of the Holy Stairs and clean its 18,300 square feet of frescoes.
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One year after their blockbuster article describing an "ecumenism of hate" between U.S. conservative Catholics and evangelicals, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro and Presbyterian pastor...
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The Vatican's former top advisor on canon law has made a public call to insert legal obligations for the care of creation into the Church’s universal canon law - making it a legal duty for...
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The future cannot be understood without reflecting on the past and on the history and traditions passed on to young people from parents and grandparents, Pope Francis said.
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