Edward Pentin World May 17, 202 Many national newspapers across Europe carried the story of the leaked draft opinion as front-page news, indicating the influence of US policy on abortion laws on the continent. VATICAN CITY — Pro-life campaigners in Europe are hailing the possible overturning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark decision as…
Statement – Communiqué 13 May 2022 In the course of a dialogue with our Bishop, Msgr Dominique Rey—a meeting had been arranged for ten days’ time and a telephone conversation was promised for this week—the Chancellor of our diocese has today sent out to clergy an inflammatory statement which is creating confusion, if not scandal,…
by George Weigel In the early 1990s, I met Kirill, now Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, when the man christened Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev was chief ecumenical officer of the Russian Orthodox Church. The occasion was a dinner hosted at the Library of Congress by the late, great James H. Billington, whose history of Russian culture, The…
by Cristiana de Magistris One day, when St Francis de Sales was speaking with Giampietro Camus, the bishop of Belley, (an admirer and spiritual son of his, on whom he had also conferred the episcopal ordination), the saint had this to say: “Be careful not to deceive yourself, because one can be very devout and, at the same…
By CNA Staff Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 8, 2022 / 07:08 am Catholics across the U.S. kept a wary vigil Sunday for pro-abortion activists to follow through on a threat to disrupt Masses on Mother’s Day. While the weekend proved mostly peaceful, there were incidents of violence, vandalism, and aggression in some parts of the…
By Andrea Gagliarducci Last week, a meeting of the committees of the Synod on Synodality, which Pope Francis convened for 2023, was held in Rome. It was a meeting to set up a common path, talk to each other, and begin to concretize what should be a Synod that will give a new face to the…
Roberto de Mattei, historian and former vice president of the National Research Council, directs the Fondazione Lepanto, the monthly Radici Cristiane, and the press agency CorrispondenzaRomana. After recalling that no one can sing victory over a pile of rubble, Pope Francis reiterated that war destroys both winners and losers. These are the positions of the realist school of international relations:…
In a case started in France by secular humanists, the court ordered the removal of the statue. The city appealed. 31 Marzo 2022 by PierLuigi Zoccatelli Last month, Bitter Winter reported about the strange case of a statue of the Virgin Mary in the French village of La Flotte-en-Ré, on the Ré Island, that the secular humanist…
By CNA Staff Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 12, 2022 / 06:00 am More than 70 bishops from around the world have released a “fraternal open letter” to Germany’s bishops warning that sweeping changes to Church teaching advocated by the ongoing process known as the “Synodal Path” may lead to schism. The letter expresses “our growing concern…
Roberto de Mattei De todos os dias da Semana da Paixão, aquele em que talvez menos se medita é a Terça-feira Santa. Este dia, porém, é tão importante e intenso como poucos na vida de Nosso Senhor. É o dia que, de facto, encerra a Sua pregação pública. É o último dia apostólico de Jesus,…
