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In her celebrated book The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt observed that even the most mundane interactions hold the potential to cause harm. Pain and evil are sadly part of our everyday lives. From an unintentional brush past a stranger in a crowded subway car to a careless word, we inevitably encounter one another in ways Read More…

How to communicate with charity: When honesty meets kindness

One of the unique aspects of Christianity is that God is called “Father.” Many other religions view God as a “master,” or as a distant being that is not even named. However, Christians call God “Father,” and we believe that it is not something that humans invented or created. The Catechism of the Catholic Church Read More…

Did humans invent calling God “Father”?

He sought help, and a Catholic psychologist advised him to make some friends. Eventually, he found a group of people who provided him with enough friends, but more importantly, they emphasized for him the friendship of Christ. Jonathan Fields had become a Catholic when he was in his 20s, but it wasn’t easy. He had Read More…

Communion and Liberation founder’s sainthood cause steps forward

At the United Nations general debate of the Commission on Population and Development, the Holy See weighed in. At the meeting, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, spoke on poverty, and promoted the family as the “basic unit” and basis of society.  The archbishop began Read More…

Holy See promotes family, decries poverty at UN meeting

Much beloved St. Damien of Molokai, who cared for those with leprosy in Hawaii, went to eternity on an April 15, in the year 1889. Though the death date of a saint is customarily their feast day, there are a number of saints for which that is not the case. Often, diving into the date Read More…

Here’s why Hawaii’s St. Damien got his May 10 feast day

Xóchitl Gálvez, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, and Claudia Sheinbaum. / Credit: Conference of the Mexican Episcopate ACI Prensa Staff, May 9, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). With Mexico’s June 2 presidential election fast approaching, the attention of the countr... [...]

Pope Francis denounced the “cowardly attack” on refugee camps in Democratic Republic of the Congo, where bombs detonated on May 3 killed at least 18 people and injured dozens more in the Mugunga and Lac Vert displacement camps in the east of the country. In a telegram sent on his behalf by Cardinal Secretary of State Read More…

Pope denounces attack on Congolese refugee camps

Kariye, the former Byzantine Church of St. Savior in Chora in Istanbul in 2020. / Credit: Nathalie Ritzmann ACI MENA, May 9, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Kariye, the former Byzantine Church of St. Savior in Chora, located in the Fatih district of Ist... [...]

Secularism tries to turn this world into a atheistic heaven. Our only defense against this lie is the Ascended Christ.

The Ascension is sometimes just an Easter afterthought. But the full extent of our salvation isn’t revealed until this feast, when the Paschal Mystery is complete.