The Mass is not a dirge. But we tend to sing the common prayers as if we were at a funeral. Leading into the Gospel Acclamation, “Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia” can be stretched and slowed out of all shape. “Allllllleluuuuia, allllllleluuuuuia, alllllllleluuuuuia.” Put it in your mind that the layman on the altar has cast the…
On this day in 1969, Paul VI slapped Roman and Eastern Catholics in the face with his motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis. With all of the wisdom and foresight of a bureaucrat, Paul VI explained why the “suppression of reference to a certain number of saints who are not universally known” is required as part of…
Sts. Cyril and Methodius. / Credit: Self-scanned, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). On Feb. 14, the universal Church honors brothers Sts. Cyril and Methodius, who are called the “Apostles of the Slavs” for their tireless work in spreading the Gospel throughout Eastern Europe in the ninth…
The skull of St. Valentine is kept in the Greek-Catholic Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome. / Credit: nomadFra/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). In most stores in the weeks leading up to St. Valentine’s Day, you’re likely to find a plethora of pink-and-red cards, heart-shaped boxes of Russell…
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null / Credit: Mehdi Kasumov/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 13, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Catholic University of America announced that it has earned the R1 designation for institutes with the “highest levels of research activity,” according to Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education, which grants the status. “Being named an R1 institution…
