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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Edward Peters
Why We Need Lent: Advice from St. BenedictWe need a time of renewal to throw off our negligence and begin to take up the Cross anew. Detail from a medieval-era depiction ofSaint Benedict delivering his rule to the monks of his order, Monastery of St. Gilles, Nimes, France, 1129. (Image: Wikipedia)Lent shouldn’t be necessary. That’s what St. Benedict of Nursia, the great father of monks, thought, at least. Jesus commanded us to deny ourselves and take up our cross daily.
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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Andy Drozdziak |Edward Peters
Crowds at a town hall meeting on immigration in Los Angeles, January 2014. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Victor Aleman/vida-nueva.comLondon, England, Feb 17, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The U.K. government is “choosing criminalization over compassion and protection” with its new asylum and immigration bill, according to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Jonah McKeown |Edward Peters
San Francisco, Calif., Mar 26, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In 2013, Beyonce Knowles topped GQ’s list of “The 100 Hottest Women of the 21st Century.” That same year, the “definitive men’s magazine” that promises “sexy women” along with style advice, entertainment news and more ran a shorter listicle: “10 Reasons Why You Should Quit Watching Porn.” The list included reasons such as decreased sexual impotence in men that regularly viewed pornography, and a reported lack of control of...
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Tyler Arnold |Edward Peters
Georgetown investigates vandalism of crucifix and Mary statue as ‘potential hate crimes’ By Tyler Arnold for CNA Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C., is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. / Credit: Rob Crandall, ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 6, 2024 / 13:15 pm (CNA).
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Peter Pinedo |Edward Peters
Migrants, mostly Haitians, wait in Mexico City to be sent to different migration centers in Puebla, Hidalgo, and Queretaro to obtain their humanitarian visas, which will allow them to continue their journey to the U.S. border ion March 31, 2023. / Credit: ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 29, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | George Weigel |Edward Peters
Radiant in the GULAG and elsewhereNo woman of our Catholic moment embodied Christocentric fidelity more than Sister Nijolė Sadūnaitė, who died, appropriately, on Easter Sunday, March 31. Sister Nijole Sadūnaite in a June 14, 2020 video.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Tyler Arnold |Edward Peters
Pro-abortion groups reach signature threshold to get amendment on Arizona ballot By Tyler Arnold for CNA A sonogram picture of a fetus in the second trimester of a woman’s pregnancy. / Credit: ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 3, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Pro-abortion groups that are trying to enshrine a right to abortion in the Arizona Constitution surpassed the required number of signatures to get their initiative on the November ballot.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
simplycatholic.com | Edward Peters
Growing up American means growing up aware of how deeply society is influenced by laws. We know, without even having to think about it, that law has something to say about almost everything we do. As children we’re taught about the various branches of government — legislative, executive, judicial — that pass, enforce and interpret the laws at various levels — federal, state and local.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Marinella Bandini |Edward Peters
Thousands gather at the Jordan River with patriarch to mark the baptism of Jesus By Marinella Bandini for CNA Worshipers in front of the Latin church dedicated to the Baptism of Jesus, in the locality known as “Bethany beyond the Jordan,” at the exit of the Mass of the Feast of Baptism, on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. / Credit: Marinella Bandini. See CNA article for full slideshow. Amman, Jordan, Jan 13, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Patti Maguire Armstrong |Edward Peters
Patrick Norton pictured with a magazine cover of Mother Teresa, who picked him up from the streets of Bombay as an infant. Later he was adopted by an American family. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Patrick NortonSt. Paul, Minn., Dec 28, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). In 1962, when he was just an infant, Patrick Norton was abandoned on the streets of Bombay, India, where Mother Teresa found him.
