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Individuals and organizations have employed “religion” to justify the marginalization, harassment, denial of rights, persecution, oppression, and murder of entire groups of people based on their social identities.

Lazare, veni foras!  - Jn 11:43 This first Festival of Philosophy[1] is dedicated to Msgr. Antonio Livi, of whom we all preserve a heartfelt...

Mr. President, Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. I write to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the "voice of one crying out in the desert" (Jn 1:23). As I said when I wrote my lett...

Sacred Scripture resides within and reaches out to us from the Heart of Christ, who is both the reflection of the Father’s love and our way of return to Him.

Pope Francis speaks at the Sunday Angelus on May 30, 2021. / Vatican Media/CNA. Vatican City, May 30, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA). On the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Pope Francis said unity is essential to Christian life because God is a commu...

Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: ‘Holy Father, but for those also May they all be one. Father, may they be one in us, as you are in me and I am in you, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so completely one that the world will realise that it was you who sent me and that I have loved them as much as you loved me.

By Michael W. Chapman | May 13, 2021 | 11:43am EDT (Getty Images) On Monday, May 10, Catholic priests blessed gay couples at more than 100 parishes in Germany, in defiance of the Vatican. Those actions, according to Fr. Hugo Valdemer, a priest with the Archdiocese of Mexico, were an "act of rebellion against the Pope" and the Church, and constituted a "truly diabolical act of pride and immorality," reported the In March, the Vatican reaffirmed the Churchs 2,0...

Blog By Michael W. Chapman | May 13, 2021 | 11:43am EDT (Getty Images) On Monday, May 10, Catholic priests blessed gay couples at more than 100 parishes in Germany, in defiance of the Vatican. Those actions, according to Fr. Hugo Valdemer, a priest with the Archdiocese of Mexico, were an "act of rebellion against the Pope" and the Church, and constituted a "truly diabolical act of pride and immorality," reported the In March, the Vatican reaff...

Mexico City, Mexico, May 11, 2021 / 14:19 pm (CNA). Fr. Hugo Valdemar, canon penitentiary of the Archdiocese of Mexico, said that the blessing that priests and pastoral workers gave May 10 to homosexual couples in Germany “is a truly sacrilegious act” and a “diabolical act of pride and immorality.” The blessing of homosexual couples in Germany “is not only an act of indiscipline and rebellion against the pope and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), it is a truly sacr...

This book will prove to be a most effective weapon against the debunking and skeptical attitudes toward the Gospels that are so prevalent, not only in academe, but also on the street, among young people who, sadly, are leaving the Churches in droves. Robert Barron, author of "Catholicism" For well over a hundred years now, many scholars have questioned the historical truth of the Gospels, claiming that they were originally anonymous. Others have even argued that Jesus of Nazareth did not think...