s we progress through the month of June, I have encountered numerous articles in which someone is trying to make sense of what it means to be a man or a woman, and how to define gender. I am struck by the narrowness of the
They were the world’s most famous hostages, yet no one seemed to know what it had taken to bring them home or how they had survived. Members of the class of 2014 at Nigeria’s Chibok Government Secondary School for Girls had been just a few
If you have followed mainstream coverage of religion (and politics) in recent decades, you know that many journalists tend to make liberal use of the vague term “moderate.” This has certainly been true of coverage of warfare inside the Southern Baptist Convention. Since “liberal” is
A priest was killed in a hail of bullets while he was on his way to celebrate Mass in north central Mexico Saturday. Franciscan Fr. Juan Antonio Orozco Alvarado, 33, apparently got in the way of rival drug gang gunfire. Several other people were also
On Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden was asked about a “resolution” of the U.S. bishops to deny him and other pro-abortion politicians Communion – even though their vote this week was on drafting the teaching document, not any national policy of denying Communion. “That’s a
By Matthew Handley Ann Arbor, Michigan, 21 June 2021 / 12:30 pm On Friday, Ed Clancy, the Director of Outreach for Aid to the Church in Need joined guest host Matthew Bunson on Kresta in the Afternoon to discuss Ethiopia’s Tigray region and Nigeria. It
While the work toward a formal apology from Pope Francis is ongoing, a clear majority of Canadians hold the Catholic Church primarily responsible for the damage done by residential schools, according to a Leger poll conducted June 4- 6. Sixty-six per cent of 1,539 people
On Wednesday, Archbishop Christophe Pierre addressed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. His fundamental message to them was, based on Pope Francis’ insights, to begin again from Christ. A crucial point he develops is evident in the following words from his address: “The kerygma —
Pray for the conversion of pro-abortion activists! On Sat., June 12, two priests walked through a pro-abortion mob and stood for the unborn. The priests walked through the streets of Brooklyn, New York in a peaceful and prayerful demonstration to a nearby abortion clinic after
According to Bishop Mathew Kukah of Sokoto, the Church in Nigeria is one of martyrs. However, he said it wasn’t a Church of sorrows, because despite the persecution perpetrated by Islamic terrorist organizations, “our people have risen to the challenge.” “The great news for us
