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One of the most difficult obstacles in today’s world is trying to work for unity, not even outside the Church, but within the Church. Individuals within the Church too often pledge their loyalty to a political party over the teaching of Jesus Christ. This makes it difficult to achieve unity within a diocese, as each Read More…

The Church is at her best when laity, priests, and bishop are united

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

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

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

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

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 [...]

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

The three U.S. Catholic cardinals currently leading dioceses have issued a rare joint statement sharply questioning the moral foundations of American foreign policy, urging national leaders to measure political decisions against principles of human dignity, solidarity, and peace articulated recently by Pope Leo XIV. Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington, and Joseph Read More…

Rare joint statement: 3 U.S. cardinals challenge morality of foreign policy

Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel. Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday program on January 18 (tune into the program at timestamp 37:20), Archbishop Read More…

U.S. Military archbishop: Troops could refuse orders on Greenland

There are sometimes good reasons to go "parish shopping," but we should also ask ourselves if there is something we can contribute to improve the parish we are in.