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Patricia Neal: A story of love, healing, and forgiveness

Patricia Neal was one of the 20th century’s most gifted actresses of stage and screen. Her life, though, was a Greek tragedy, transformed by God’s healing love. She was born 100 years ago today — christened “Patsy Louise” — in Packard, Kentucky, the coal country hometown of her “earnest, warm-hearted” mother, Eura Mildred Petrey, whose Read More…

Patricia Neal: A story of love, healing, and forgiveness

Eucharist stolen from Catholic school in India

Church officials in India fear the Eucharist was desecrated after a tabernacle was stolen from a Catholic school in the Indian city of Nagpur the night of January 14. CCTV cameras caught masked men entering the St. Claret School building around midnight and entering the principal’s office, reported Catholic news website UCA News. The thieves Read More…

Eucharist stolen from Catholic school in India

Christian Zionism is a “damaging ideology,” says statement from church heads

The influence of Christian Zionism in the Holy Land is making life harder for the Christians who reside in the area, said a January 17 statement from the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem. “The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in the Holy Land affirm before the faithful and before the world that the Read More…

Christian Zionism is a “damaging ideology,” says statement from church heads

Loving Our Neighbor: This Religious Sister Confronts Suicide in Bangladesh

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Interview with Greenland’s only parish priest

Greenland has only about 57,000 inhabitants, of whom only a handful are Catholic. The only Catholic parish — in the capital city of Nuuk — is run by Father Tomaž Majcen, a Franciscan who is also a missionary in Denmark. He spends three weeks at a time in Greenland several times a year. Other priests Read More…

Interview with Greenland’s only parish priest

When words mean anything, they mean nothing(ness)

Over the course of a few days in mid-January, the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) heard oral argument in a major Title IX case, a U.S. Senate committee held a hearing about the danger of chemical abortions, and [...]

“Throughout the year”: Why there is nothing ordinary about “Ordinary Time”

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on January 18, 2026, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. Let’s check your grasp of what we were taught in kindergarten about the “primary [...]

Watch: Priest brings down the house with dance at basketball game

A video of Fr. Nonso Ohanaka, chaplain of Pope Saint John Paul II Preparatory School in Hendersonville, Tennessee, dancing at a recent basketball game has gone viral on social media, amassing more than two million views over the weekend. “Father O brought out the moves at halftime of the JPII vs Father Ryan Men’s Basketball Read More…

Watch: Priest brings down the house with dance at basketball game