By JAN BENTZ/CNA/EWTN NEWS | ROME — The fourth annual Summorum Pontificum Conference was held last Saturday in Rome to promote the understanding and use of the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, and to discuss the liturgical heritage of … Continue reading →

By JOSEPH PRONECHEN | CHARLESTON, S.C. — The mass shooting death of nine individuals during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston on Wednesday evoked prayers for both the victims and the alleged assailant… Original … Continue reading →

By Dan Burke | Can you trust a spiritual director who uses an enneagram? Here’s my answer to a reader’s question. Dear Dan, I recently began a new relationship with a spiritual director who claimed to be committed to the … Continue reading →

By Joanna Bogle | Church Played Crucial Role | LONDON — June 19 will mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta — the great charter of rights and freedoms drawn up by the abbots of England’s … Continue reading →

By TITO EDWARDS | Let’s Listen to Pope Francis on Climate – Josiah Neeley, First Things The Return of Catholic Anti-Modernism (Laudato Si by Pope Francis) by R. R. Reno of First Things – Big Pulpit Ten Things in Laudato … Continue reading →

By Mark Shea | St. Paul’s place in the Church has been a bone of contention ever since he was knocked off his horse by our Lord on the way to Damascus. He was a mass of paradoxes that seemed … Continue reading →

By Jimmy Akin | Pope Francis’s highly anticipated encyclical—Laudato Si’—is now out. Here are 13 things to know and share . . .   1) What are the basic facts about this encyclical? An encyclical is a teaching document issued … Continue reading →

By EDWARD PENTIN | VATICAN CITY — In his encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis has issued a lengthy warning on the “destruction of the human environment” that draws on theology and “the best scientific research available today” to challenge all… … Continue reading →

By MATT HADRO/CNA/EWTN NEWS | WASHINGTON — Several leading U.S. bishops praised Laudato Si (The Care for Our Common Home), the new papal encyclical, as an invitation to turn away from sin and grow closer to God through a relationship … Continue reading →

By ELISE HARRIS/CNA/EWTN NEWS | VATICAN CITY — In his new encyclical on the environment, Pope Francis condemns attacks against human life such as abortion, embryonic experimentation and population control — saying that respect for creation and… Original Article