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1 week ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Carl Olson |Michael Miller
The Ascension reveals man’s calling to eternal, divine lifeOn the Readings for Thursday, May 29, 2025, Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. Detail from "The Ascension" (1775) by John Singleton Copley [WikiArt.org]Readings:• Acts 1:1-11• Psa. 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9• Eph. 1:17-23 or Heb.
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2 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Kate Quinones |Michael Miller
Denver, Colo., Oct 10, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Pro-life third-party candidate Brian Carroll squared-off with other third-party presidential candidates in a debate Thursday evening in Denver, with much of the discourse focusing around the difficulties that third-parties often face in gaining traction in U.S. presidential races, as well as issues surrounding education, surveillance, and drug policy.
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4 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Carl Olson |Michael Miller
Apocalypse How? A Scriptural Reflection on the Readings for Sunday, May 11, 2025, the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Detail from "The Ghent Altarpiece: Adoration of the Lamb" by Jan van Eyck (circa 1390 –1441) [Wikipedia Commons]Readings:• Acts 13:14, 43-52• Ps 100:1-2, 3, 5• Rev 7:9, 14b-17• Jn 10:27-30Pop quiz: which book of the Bible describes black helicopters, high-tech warfare involving Russia and China, and computer chips embedded in human flesh?
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1 month ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Madalaine Elhabbal |Michael Miller
Pro-lifers protest law attacking conscience protections in New South Wales, Australia By Madalaine Elhabbal for CNA Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, Australia. / Credit: EWTN NewsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 9, 2025 / 10:12 am (CNA). Pro-life activists in Australia this week protested against a bill that would force health care workers with conscientious objections to refer patients for abortions.
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1 month ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Michael Miller
‘This is Francis:’ A Vatican photographer remembers phone call from the pope By Hannah Brockhaus for CNA Daniel Ibañez embraces Pope Francis. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Apr 28, 2025 / 14:56 pm (CNA). Imagine that your cellphone rings and the display says the call is from a “private number.” You expect it to be a telemarketer, but instead when you answer, you hear a man with an Argentine accent say: “This is Francis.
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1 month ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | George Weigel |Michael Miller
Retrospect on a pontificateThe next pontificate must understand what the Francis pontificate seems not to have grasped. Pope Francis appears for the first time on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 13, 2013.
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1 month ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Almudena Martínez-Bordiú |Michael Miller
Iconic Holy Week processions in Seville vividly portray the Passion By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú for CNA The Mystery of the Brotherhood of San Benito processes through the surroundings of the cathedral of Seville on Holy Tuesday, April 15, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Joaquín CarmonaSeville, Spain, Apr 17, 2025 / 13:01 pm (CNA). The Holy Week processions in the Andalusian capital are one of Spain’s most iconic traditions.
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1 month ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Madalaine Elhabbal |Michael Miller
New York City, N.Y., Jun 4, 2019 / 12:29 pm (CNA).- The United Nations General Assembly last week adopted a resolution proclaiming Aug. 22 as the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. The May 28 resolution was introduced by Jacek Czaputowicz, Poland’s foreign minister. “Any acts of violence against people belonging to religious minorities cannot be accepted,” Czaputowicz stated.
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2 months ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Michael Miller
U.S. bishops back bipartisan effort to keep foreign religious workers in United States By Daniel Payne for CNA null / Credit: Vinokurov Kirill/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Apr 8, 2025 / 14:14 pm (CNA). Multiple U.S. bishops are hailing a proposed bipartisan effort to keep religious workers — including Catholic priests — in the United States by extending their special visas instead of sending them to their home countries for extended lengths of time.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Tyler Arnold |Michael Miller
DOJ: Former Catholic priest convicted of child sex abuse will be deported after sentence By Tyler Arnold for CNA U.S. Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via WikimediaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 5, 2025 / 13:40 pm (CNA).
