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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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As last week in Baltimore was marked by a general mood of siege mentality among the US bishops, these last weeks of 2019 will bring a rare feel-good moment for the bench: for just the second time...
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(Updated 10am with election results) BALTIMORE – Nine years ago on this Election Morning, as the leadership of the nation's largest religious body hung in the balance, this scribe asked a favorite op...
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BALTIMORE – A hundred years since the bishops of the United States – freshly gathered into an episcopal conference – made their first collective strike on the national stage with a sweeping Program...
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If you're thinking the "Main Event" is over, in reality, it's just beginning.... Only now, see, will this scribe need to "bilocate." Eighteen months in the making, the...
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Six years ago, even as it initially became clear that the Synod of Bishops would emerge as "the key to [Francis'] shake-up" of the ecclesial order, to sense that a bulked-up assembly could...
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As trade-offs go, it would be one for the books – after traditionalist opponents of the Pope stole the much-ballyhooed statues of Amazonian women from a Roman church early yesterday and tossed them...
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So it seems, there's more than one way of "covering" this Amazon Synod – one can either focus on process... or if that's too much, it's apparently become sufficient to just cast aspersions...
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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Erin Scott, Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A federal judge Nov. 20 temporarily blocked the executions of four federal death-row inmates scheduled for December and...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Marcelo Perez del Carp By Manuel Rueda A church located on the outskirts of Bolivia's capital city became an improvised morgue Nov. 20, following another deadly day of protests in...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden BANGKOK (CNS) -- Missionaries are not mercenaries, but beggars who recognize that some brothers and sisters are missing from the community and long to...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden BANGKOK (CNS) -- Calling migration "one of the principal moral issues" facing humanity today, Pope Francis thanked the government and people of...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Michael Hoyt, Catholic Standard By Mark Zimmermann LEONARDTOWN, Md. (CNS) -- In the dark of night June 17, 1887, a mob lynched Benjamin Hance, hanging the 22-year-old African...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican reiterated its call for a two-state solution in the Holy Land after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden BANGKOK (CNS) -- Arriving in Thailand after an 11-hour flight, Pope Francis was greeted by 11 children -- one for each of the country's dioceses. Pope...
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National Catholic Register
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By Lauretta Brown | The question of whether or not there is room in the Democratic party for candidates with a pro-life stance came up during the fifth Democratic presidential debate Wednesday. Sen...
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By Michael Pakaluk | It’s all about finding the determining principles, St. Thomas Aquinas would say. In practical matters, you must be familiar with the right principles and recognize when they...
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By Msgr. Charles Pope | The books of First and Second Maccabees, which we read every year at this time in the Divine Office, are especially pertinent for us today, when religious syncretism and...
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By Joseph O’Brien | The faith-based health-care community in the United States was dealt a double blow with twin rulings coming out of courts in Washington state and New York regarding...
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By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA | BANGKOK — The dignity of the human person can be recognized and affirmed through loving medical care to the sick and injured, Pope Francis told the staff of St. Louis...
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By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA | BANGKOK —Thailand’s first Christian missionaries set out feeling the absence of the Thai people from their lives and wanted to share everything they knew about God’s love,...
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By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA | BANGKOK — Catholics and Buddhists share should work together to advance the cause of mercy in the world, Pope Francis said Thursday during a historic meeting with the...
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News from the Vatican
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A negligent and selfish culture of food waste is fueling the global hunger crisis, damaging the lives of individuals and preventing the progress of all people, Pope Francis said.
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A board member of the Vatican’s financial watchdog has resigned in the wake of a Vatican police raid that resulted in the agency’s suspension from the global communications network of financial...
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The Vatican's Christmas tree will be adorned with energy-saving lights, the governing office of Vatican City said.
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Interreligious dialogue is an important way to counter fundamentalist groups as well as the unjust accusation that religions sow division, Pope Francis said.
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Although people may have different ways of praying or of serving their parish or the poor, the Catholic Church needs laity, priests, religious, parishes and lay movements to collaborate in order to...
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