When World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon 2023 began, the great controversy surrounding it was whether the event had lost its evangelizing flavor, given the controversy surrounding Cardinal-elect Américo Aguiar’s statements on interreligious dialogue. This controversy seems relatively forgotten by now,...
Last week a controversy erupted about the way the Blessed Sacrament was stored during the Saturday night preceding Sunday’s papal mass at World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon. Pictures circulating on social media showed plastic containers on top of tables inside...
The story of the miraculous healing of a young Catholic pilgrim on August 5 in Fatima during the World Youth Day festivities has recently been circulating widely in Catholic media. According to several news sources, the young teenaged Spanish pilgrim...
One of the world’s smallest national Catholic communities, Mongolia, is anticipating Pope Francis’s upcoming visit, demonstrating the Holy Father’s willingness to travel great distances and minister to even a handful of the faithful. Announced on July 15, the pope will...
Bishop Robert Barron’s essay on World Youth Day, which he published on the website for his Word on Fire ministry on Thursday, July 13, is an excellent example of a concerning trend in writing on serious religious and moral subjects....
On July 6, 2023, Bishop Américo Aguiar gave an interview to the secular public Portuguese channel, RTP Notícias. The full interview (in Portuguese) can be seen here. Catholic news sites have picked up on a particular section of that interview, which we...
According to multiple news reports, testimony was heard yesterday in the case of Bishop Michael Olson and the Arlington nuns in civil court. As we reported earlier this month, the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy...
Since the story broke on Saturday, the Catholic world has been abuzz with discussion about Bishop Joseph Strickland and the Apostolic Visitation conducted last week in his diocese of Tyler, Texas. Multiple sources have confirmed that the visitation was undertaken...
Might the Bishop Joseph Strickland era soon be over in Tyler? Reports of an apostolic visitation in Strickland’s East Texas diocese were reported by Church Militant just before noon Saturday and by LifeSiteNews in late afternoon. The LifeSite article referenced...
Today I have found myself absorbed in reading two new documents from the Vatican. The first is a new Apostolic Letter by Pope Francis about Blaise Pascal, released yesterday on the 400th birthday of the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher....
Trigger/Content warning: discussion of sexual and spiritual abuse, sexual content Because of the strength of its communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live together, L’Arche has long enjoyed a first-rate international reputation. Thus, after the death of founder...
Update June 15: Sources close to monastery talk to ABC affiliate Since this article is still getting significant traffic since it was posted June 13, I’ll add one more significant development. Several sources close to the Carmelite Monastery in Arlington,...
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