Msgr. Richard Antall

Featured in: Favicon

ncregister.com Favicon

angelusnews.com Favicon

am1260therock.com

Articles

Pope Francis clears way for three new saints

3 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Robert Brennan |Carol Glatz |Msgr. Richard Antall

Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonizations of three blesseds: an Armenian Catholic archbishop martyred during the Armenian genocide, a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea killed during World War II and a Venezuelan religious sister who dedicated her life to education and the poor. The Vatican announced March 31 that the pope authorized the decrees March 28.
God's mercy is for everyone; everyone needs healing, pope writes

3 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Carol Glatz |Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall

God is always merciful toward everyone, Pope Francis wrote. "He heals our wounds so that we can love each other as brothers and sisters," he said in the text he prepared for the midday Angelus prayer March 30. While the 88-year-old pope was back at the Vatican and had appeared briefly on the balcony of Rome's Gemelli hospital March 23, the Sunday he was discharged, to offer his blessing, he was following doctors' orders to rest and did not make a televised or public appearance.
How to spend a Lenten Sunday? Why not with “Paddington”?

3 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Msgr. Richard Antall |Ad rem

We’re in the middle of Lent. We edge ever closer toward the most profound week on the liturgical calendar, capped by the holiest day of the year. There is a lot to think about and a lot to pray over in the remaining Lenten season. So, it is only natural that I’m thinking about a movie series with a computer-animated bear in a winter coat and red hat. I am not going to shoehorn the premise of the “Paddington” movies into a treatise on Christian imagery as it pertains to the passion of Our Lord.
Pope's condition shows 'further slight improvement'

1 month ago | angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Mike Aquilina |Msgr. Richard Antall

Pope Francis' condition showed "further slight improvement" in the previous 24 hours, the Vatican said in its evening medical bulletin Feb. 26. The "mild renal insufficiency" previously noted in the pope's condition "has receded," the bulletin said, and the results of a CT scan performed Feb. 25 showed a "normal evolution" of his pulmonary inflammation.
Meet the martyrs who died for one cause — marriage

1 month ago | angelusnews.com | Mike Aquilina |Msgr. Richard Antall |Scott Hahn

To die for marriage is to die for Jesus. Christian Marriage — the faithful, exclusive lifelong bond between one man and one woman — is essential to the Gospel (see Matthew 5:32, 19:3–9). That is the truth behind Pope Francis’ decree of Jan. 27 proclaiming that five Franciscan friars who died in 1597 were killed in odium fidei — in the hatred of the faith. The five martyrs were Spanish missionaries to the New World, serving among the native Guale people in territory that is now the state of Georgia.
Anti-Catholic bias hard to hide in new book ‘Opus’

1 month ago | angelusnews.com | Msgr. Richard Antall |Scott Hahn |Carol Glatz

Oscar Wilde once ironically described an acquaintance as “an excellent man” whom, he said, “has no enemies and none of his friends like him.”Adjusting Wilde’s aphorism, I would say that a Catholic institution like Opus Dei that has such fierce enemies must also have some friends who like it very much. A more direct line from Winston Churchill probably meant the same thing: “You have enemies? Good.
A Catholic review of a Protestant’s biography of the Bible

Dec 17, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Msgr. Richard Antall

At more than 500 pages, Bruce Gordon’s “The Bible: A Global History” (Basic Books, $35) is really a history of Christianity written from the perspective of sacred Scripture. The Bible is the book, the author says with some hyperbole, that has left no one — believing or unbelieving — untouched.
The extraordinary life of U.S. Army chaplain Edward Vattman

Nov 26, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Msgr. Richard Antall |Mike Cisneros |OFM Cap

The English historian Thomas Carlyle said that “history is the essence of innumerable biographies.” The saying aptly explains why I appreciate a monograph recently sent to me about the life of Edward Vattmann, a missionary priest and immigrant whose life reads like a mosaic of American Catholic history.
Another priest kidnapped in Nigeria amid on-going terrorism

Nov 8, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |Msgr. Richard Antall

Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria in what is seen as a growing threat to Christians in Africa’s most populous nation. Father Emmanuel Azubuike, Parish Priest of St. Theresa Obollo Parish in the Okigwe Diocese was taken in Obollo in Imo State while on his way back home from an assignment. Imo is in the southeast of the country, and has a Christian majority. Church authorities confirmed the kidnapping in a statement and urged prayers to secure his safe return.
Twins delivered by priest are thriving father says

Nov 8, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Msgr. Richard Antall |Heather King

Last November, the Catholic Extension Society shared the heart-warming story about a priest who delivered twin babies outside St. Paul Cathedral in Yakima, Washington. A year later the twin boys are thriving. As Father Jesús Mariscal was leaving the rectory on his way to purchase doughnuts for a marriage preparation meeting, he saw a woman in distress in front of a statue of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception.