Robert Brennan

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Cindy Wooden |Caroline de Sury |Heather King |Robert Brennan

While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a detention facility, arriving at Rome's Regina Coeli jail at about 3 p.m. April 17. The pope was welcomed by Claudia Clementi, the jail's director, and met with about 70 inmates in the building's rotunda, a space where various wings of the jail intersect.

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Cindy Wooden |Heather King |Robert Brennan

As legislators in multiple states seek to advance so-called "medical aid in dying" laws, a Catholic ethicist warned the practice was contrary to both Catholic teaching and American ideals. Supporters of physician-assisted suicide argue the practice protects the autonomy of suffering individuals in their final days, but opponents argue the practice disregards the dignity of human life and leaves those who are ill or dying vulnerable to coercion, among other objections.

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Heather King |Robert Brennan |Scott Hahn

“When the images of earth cling too tightly to memory, when the call of happiness becomes too insistent, it happens that melancholy rises in man’s heart: this is the rock’s victory, this is the rock itself. The boundless grief is too heavy to bear. These are our nights of Gethsemane.” — Albert Camus, from “The Myth of Sisyphus”Many years ago, I had a thought that has stayed with me ever since: Maybe the whole reason I was born is so I can sit with Christ for an hour in the Garden at Gethsemane.

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Heather King |Scott Hahn |Ad rem

I will wager that most people reading this have no idea who St. Fiacre was and what he has in common with the Beatles. The whimsical Beatles song, “When I’m 64,” is a projection into a beautiful future with the singer joyfully looking forward to growing old with his true love, where even the simplest pleasures, such as “doing the garden, digging the weeds,” are things devoutly to be wished for.

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |Judith Sudilovsky |Carol Glatz |Robert Brennan

On Friday, the Nigerian government assured the United States of its commitment to uphold freedom of religion and expression. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave this assurance in a statement signed by its acting spokesman, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, saying any reports of threats or intimidation against religious leaders would be investigated and appropriate actions would be taken.