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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...

Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., 18th President of St. Johns University At the end of April, Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., the new president of St. John’s University—an ostensibly Catholic institution—sent the following email to faculty and staff, under the subject line “LGBTQ+ Climate Assessment”: Earlier this semester the Office of Equity and Inclusion engaged the Transgender Training Institute to conduct an LGBTQ+ climate assessment. As I read the survey results, I was disheartened...

(Image: Jomarc Cala/Unsplash.com) Popes answer questions. It is the office of any bishop, but especially the Bishop of Rome, to teach the Faith. And the office of teaching, which is a share in the prophetic office of Christ ( munus docendi) involves answering the most difficult questions concerning revelation, theology, and the sound application of Church teaching in a world fraught with complexity and confusion. Pope Francis not only answers questions. He provokes questions, often in startling...

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, former vicar of Rome, reaffirmed the importance of a Vatican text banning clergy from blessing homosexual unions.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini answers questions at the Vatican press office on June 17, 2014. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Help us expand our reach! Please share this article Rome Newsroom, May 4, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini has said that he is praying there will be no schism in Germany, as priests and bishops in the country announce their disagreement with a document from the Vatican saying the Church cannot bless same-sex unions. In a May 4 interview with the newspaper Il Foglio,...

Defending Marriage in the Pope Francis Era 05/03/2021 at 2:52 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White THE DECISIVE BATTLE By Richard A. Spinello, New Oxford Review, May 2021 On December 26, 1957, Lucia dos Santos, one of the three child visionaries from Fatima, gave her final public interview. The other two visionaries, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, had died shortly after Mary appeared to them in 1917. Sr. Lucia lived until 2005 and received additional Marian apparitions in the Carmel of Coimbra o...

Deir al-Surian: Saving ancient Christian manuscripts in Egypt For twenty years now, an Anglo-Egyptian foundation has been working to preserve and restore one of the most prestigious collections of ancient manuscripts, which contain Christian texts of exceptional historical value that were secretly preserved for centuries. By Jean Charles Putzolu It is one of the oldest monasteries known to the modern world. Deir al-Surian was founded in the 6th century A.D., although this is only a hypothesis c...

Pressure Intensifies on Catholic Church to Change Teaching That Homosexuality Is ‘Intrinsically Disordered’ 04/20/2021 at 4:53 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White According to analysts, the continuing push to remove this phrasing from the Catechism of the Catholic Church is rooted in a broader campaign to legitimize homosexual acts. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, April 20, 2021 VATICAN CITY — Pressure continues to be exerted on Church leaders to remove the language of Cat...

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! Prayer is dialogue with God; and every creature, in a certain sense, “dialogues” with God. Within the human being, prayer becomes word, invocation, hymn, poetry… The divine Word is made flesh, and in each person’s flesh the word returns to God in prayer. We create words, but they are also our mothers, and to some extent they shape us. The words of a prayer get us safely through a dark valley, direct us towards green meadows rich in water, and en...

CNA Staff, Apr 19, 2021 / 18:25 pm America/Denver (CNA). The bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania has proclaimed a jubilee year to promote a greater dedication to the Holy Eucharist. Bishop Alfred Schlert of Allentown declared a “Year of the Real Presence,” which began on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 11, and will end on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, June 19, 2022. The jubilee also aligns with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the diocese, which occurred on January 28. During the ju...