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Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has appointed Stanley B. Prusiner, an American neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine, and Zeresenay Alemseged, an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist who discovered the fossilized remains of the “world’s oldest child,” to be members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The pope also appointed Emilce Cuda, an Argentine theologian and secretary […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — Jesus brings peace to today’s shattered world through meekness and not through an “armed peace” that seeks to subjugate others, Pope Francis said. During his weekly general audience April 13, the pope said that the war in Ukraine, “like every war, represents an outrage against God, a blasphemous betrayal of the Lord […]
National
By Joseph P. Owens
ABOARD THE STAR TRUST — Moments after Bishop William E. Koenig of Wilmington, Delaware, completed his first Mass on a refrigerated ocean cargo ship on the Delaware coast, he chatted with a group of Filipino crewmen who were attending Mass together for the first time in months. “What’s your favorite port,” he asked the 20 […]
Movies
By John Mulderig
NEW YORK — Positive priest characters are certainly a rarity in contemporary films. So, Catholics will welcome the uplifting fact-based biography “Father Stu” (Columbia). While deeply moving, however, this dramatization of the life of Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) is also hard-edged, particularly in terms of its dialogue. Yet that’s part of the point. The movie […]
Columns
By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
The universal church always has recognized that the almighty triune God — the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit — is merciful. Our risen Lord Jesus Christ, during the 1930s, shared with Sister Maria Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament Kowalska (1905-38), a Polish nun, his message of merciful love. St. Faustina’s work, “Diary: Divine […]
Global
By Dennis Sadowski
In the world of Catholic prayer apps, it seems like there is just about something for everyone. From prayer to Scripture study to the rosary to inspiration and connecting with God, dozens of apps exist and more are likely on the way. Most of the apps are available for use in Apple and Android formats, […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — People following the Stations of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum this year will find along the Via Dolorosa a message of hope, including with a Russian and Ukrainian family both carrying a cross together at the nighttime ceremony. “It is not a Way of the Cross that lists all the difficulties in […]
National
By Julie Asher
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Catholic Church’s three-year eucharistic revival about to get underway “is not a program but a movement” that is an invitation to the faithful from God to go on mission and be compelling witnesses of our faith, said Tim Glemkowski, the newly named executive director of the National Eucharistic Congress. “We the […]
Local
By Ashleigh Kassock
This year’s Mass Under the Lights event, usually held at an outdoor athletic field at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, was celebrated inside due to inclement weather.
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Jared Leto stars in this drab Marvel Comics-based adventure, directed by Daniel Espinosa. He plays the gifted physician of the title, Morbius, who, in attempting to cure the blood disease from which he has suffered since childhood, partially succeeds but with the rather alarming side effect that he frequently transforms into a rampaging vampire. His […]
