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Andorra to legalize abortion with or without Vatican approval
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (79+ words) Edgar Beltran, The Pillar on Friday, September 11, 2026 The Andorran Prime Minister has announced a plan to decriminalize abortion in the microstate by April next year “whether the Holy See likes it or not,” despite a Catholic bishop serving as co-head…...
U.S. bishops weigh in on Second Amendment Supreme Court case
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (79+ words) Daniel Payne, EWTN News on Friday, September 11, 2026 The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow local communities to regulate firearm ownership, weighing in on a high-profile federal case that could significantly reshape the nation’s gun laws....
Bishop consecrated to fill Chinese diocese vacant for 25 years
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (66+ words) Michael Haynes, The Catholic Herald on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Bishop Yang now assumes leadership of the Archdiocese of Chongqing, although questions about his links with the Communist party are prominent. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s…...
On the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (201+ words) St. Andrew of Crete on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 This radiant and manifest coming of God to men most certainly needed a joyful prelude to introduce the great gift of salvation to us. The present festival, the birth of the Mother of…...
Christ the good shepherd
1+ week, 2+ day ago (90+ words) St. Gregory the Great on Thursday, September 3, 2026 I am the good shepherd. I know my own – by which I mean, I love them – and my own know me. In plain words: those who love me are willing to follow me,…...
E Pluribus Unum, yesterday and today
1+ week, 2+ day ago (79+ words) John F. Doherty on Thursday, September 3, 2026 Pope John Paul II once said: “the continuing success of American democracy depends on the degree to which each new generation … makes its own the moral truths on which the Founding Fathers staked the future…...
Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa
1+ week, 4+ day ago (267+ words) Hilaire Belloc on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall receive me when the clouds…...
Inaugural meeting of German Synodal Conference postponed indefinitely
1+ week, 4+ day ago (54+ words) Edgar Beltran, The Pillar on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 The Vatican has not yet approved the statutes establishing the new body. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming Mel Gibson film National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of…...
The Church in Dialogue: What Approach? And With Whom?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (256+ words) Randall Smith on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Some of the Church’s dialogue partners, for example, still accept the old Enlightenment dichotomy between reasonable “science” and unreasonable “faith.” The Church addresses this group by trying to show the reasonableness of the faith. These…...
On his 'Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass)"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (123+ words) Dear Lord, here it is finished, this poor little mass. Have I just written sacred music, or rather, sacrilegious music? I was born for opera buffa, as you well know. The post On his ‘Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass)…...