Like many of you, my thoughts about the adulterous couple caught red-handed (and red-faced) at the Coldplay concert have bounced around like a ping-pong ball in the last few days. When I first heard of the incident, I was visiting family out of town. I only saw a headline with two still shots of the…
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Sean Graber, president of EWTN Digital (left), and Peter Gagnon, president of EWTN Studios. / Credit: EWTN Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 16:47 pm (CNA). Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) Chairman and CEO Michael P. Warsaw has announced a new organizational structure to further EWTN’s mission in the digital landscape by enhancing its…
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Father Alphonsus Afina. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Fairbanks CNA Staff, Jul 22, 2025 / 14:16 pm (CNA). A Nigerian priest who served for years in the U.S. has been released after being held in captivity by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram for several weeks. Father Alphonsus Afina was captured by…
null / Credit: Dzelat/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The Richmond office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spied on a priest because he refused to discuss private conversations he had with a parishioner who was converting to Catholicism, according to a July 22 report from the House Judiciary…
null / Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 15:46 pm (CNA). Massachusetts federal judge Indira Talwani on Tuesday issued a ruling blocking the provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that stopped taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion centers. In the July 21 ruling, Talwani unilaterally decided that…
The grounds at the Sanctuary of La Sainte-Baume. / Credit: Sanctuary of La Sainte-Baume Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 16:17 pm (CNA). Tucked away in a rocky mountain in southeast France is a cave formed by natural erosion called La Sainte-Baume. It is one of the oldest Christian pilgrimage sites in the world…
Understandably, people become stressed over rancorous and bitter disagreements. This is one reason why John Lennon was able to captivate so many with the invitation to imagine no religion or possessions, making possible a “brotherhood of man.” Who wouldn’t want that? A generation or two later, in a very different musical genre, Kurt Cobain likewise…
If we are well past the days when it was common for faithful Catholics to become unhinged at the very suggestion of “fixing” the Missal of Paul VI, we must admit that is in large part due to the influence of those calling for a reform of the reform—obviously including a pope, several curial cardinals…
