How to vote according to our Catholic faith

 

Bishop Paprocki: We must weigh cost of ‘extraordinary’ shutdowns

By Catholic News Agency on Sep 24, 2020 05:24 pm
Denver Newsroom, Sep 24, 2020 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- In an essay published this month, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield in Illinois argued that months-long lockdowns in response to the coronavirus are an extraordinary means [...]
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Vatican Cardinal Angelo Becciu resigns from office and ‘rights’ of cardinals

By Catholic News Agency on Sep 24, 2020 03:08 pm
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who until today was prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, has resigned from that office and from the rights extended to members of the College of Cardinals. The [...]
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Chronicle of a Dream offers both a history and spiritual “autobiography”

By James Baresel on Sep 24, 2020 01:31 am
It is tempting to use Jose Luis Olaizola’s Bartolomé de las Casas: Chronicle of a Dream as a backdrop for yet another look at the history of the relationship between ethnically European Catholics and non-European [...]
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How to vote according to our Catholic faith

By Bishop Donald J. Hying on Sep 23, 2020 03:17 pm
Many faithful Catholics have asked me to offer some direction regarding conscience formation and the moral aspect of the many issues facing us as a nation, as we approach this year’s presidential election. We would [...]
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The providential demise of the Papal States

By George Weigel on Sep 23, 2020 03:10 am
Evelyn Waugh’s Catholic traditionalism was so deep, broad, and intense that self-identified “traditional Catholics” today might seem, in comparison, like the editorial staff of the National Catholic Reporter. Yet the greatest of 20th century English prose [...]
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Padre Pio and the Wounds of Christ

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Sep 23, 2020 03:01 am
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on the September 23, 2020, the liturgical memorial of St. Pius of Pietrelcina, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. Today the Church honors the [...]
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The National Centre for Padre Pio is a monument rooted in faith and gratitude

By Father Seán Connolly on Sep 22, 2020 07:08 pm
Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus delivered these parting remarks to His disciples: “And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; [...]
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The See of Peter in a dark and troubled age

By Timothy D. Lusch on Sep 22, 2020 02:35 am
Anyone who has experienced the miracle of modern dentistry mourns little the passing of the Middle Ages. But Modernity (the period from the Renaissance to sometime in the twentieth-century), even with extraordinary advances in medicine [...]
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Survey finds correlation between Catholic Mass attendance, political views 

By Catholic News Agency on Sep 22, 2020 02:16 am
CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2020 / 06:00 pm (CNA).- A recent survey has found a correlation between the religious practices of Catholic likely voters, their party affiliation, and the political issues they say are important, [...]
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Amy Barrett and the relationship between religion and politics

By Brian Jones on Sep 21, 2020 09:15 pm
During Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing for Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, held on September 6, 2017, Senator Chuck Grassley posed the following question to the nominee: “When is it proper for a judge to [...]
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