Love is a free gift; it cannot be coerced, manipulated, or commodified. The greatest example of this is found in the Incarnation, writes Carl E. Olson on the Readings for the SIxth Sunday of Easter. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/04/six…

For the first time, an Arab Christian woman has been elected as the rector of an Israeli university — the University of Haifa. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/04/fir…

It was 1983, in the last years of the Cold War, when 21-year-old Marla Lucas’ eyes filled with tears at the sight of a cartoon prepared to be printed in the Washington Post criticizing then-Pope John Paul II during his activism against communism in Poland.
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The twofold message of Our Lady of Champion—to offer Communion for the conversion of sinners and to teach children their catechism—is a crucial one, especially today, writes Susan Ciancio. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/the…

I may share the criticism of Catholic Answers’ slight naïvete with others, but I find myself mostly out of sympathy with the majority of appraisals I’ve read, writes Joe Grabowski. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/we-…

Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, said on Thursday that the protests making national headlines at the New York City school are being organized in part by “explicitly communist” outside forces. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/col…

The Church, having identified too intimately with the culture, has been wallowing in more “liberal” talk of forgiveness, mercy, compassion, and love, but without a corresponding and primary emphasis on truth, writes Matthew Becklo. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/on-…

The White House on Friday announced that Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, the founder of a prominent ministry dedicated to rehabilitating gang-affiliated youth, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom alongside 18 other recipients this afternoon. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/bid…

World Press Freedom Day is celebrated every May 3, drawing attention to the importance of independent news media. Among modern-day saints, there is a journalist-priest who suffered martyrdom by the Nazis for his work in Catholic media: St. Titus Brandsma. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/the…

A priest in Chicago last month blessed a same-sex couple, saying that the Vatican’s recent document Fiducia Supplicans authorized such blessings. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/chi…

What the presidency requires above all is prudence—the ability consistently to make morally good choices in pursuit of morally good ends, writes Russell Shaw. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/ext…

The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem delivered an impassioned lecture on Thursday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome detailing the process of peace in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war ... catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/car…

Pope Francis recently announced his intention to travel to Southeast Asia in September to visit Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Singapore. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/03/car…

“Ours is a different pathway than that of liberal institutions,” says program manager Leah A. Jacobson about the new online program offered by the University of St. Thomas Houston, “we seek to understand and cooperate with God’s natural design.” catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/02/mas…

“They have done it again. It is a kind of obsessive mantra every time they need a smokescreen to distract from the real problems we have and to which they so clumsily and insidiously apply their tortuous governance.” catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/02/spa…

The record-low fertility rates in the United States and the decline in fertility globally are driven by both social and economic factors, according to Catholic panelists speaking at an event hosted by the Institute for Human Ecology (IHE). catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/02/wha…

Former President Donald Trump is polling more than 10 points ahead of President Joe Biden among Catholic voters, thanks in part to increasing support from Hispanic Catholic voters, according to a recent Pew survey. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/02/tru…

Pope Francis published a letter on Thursday addressed to all parish priests in the world with his advice for building a missionary Church in which all the baptized share in the mission of proclaiming the Gospel. catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/02/pop…

Here’s a look at abortion-related developments that took place in various U.S. states this week.catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/01/pro…

Father Paul Tatu Mothobi, a member the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata (CSS/Stigmatines) and former media and communications officer of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), was reportedly murdered last weekend in South Africa.catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/02/pri…