St. Philip Neri (+1595) was praying one night, as he often did, in the Catacombs of St. Sebastian. A ball of light came down from above and entered his mouth. He was so overwhelmed by the love of God that he cried out, “Enough, Lord! I cannot take anymore” and passed out. When he awoke,…
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A screen grab from a video shared with ACI Africa that shows the parish house at St. Raphael Fadan Kamantan Catholic Church of the Diocese of Kafanchan in flames Sept. 7, 2023. / Credit: ACI Africa CNA Newsroom, Dec 30, 2023 / 09:55 am (CNA). Christians have been persecuted by adversarial groups since the time…
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Pope Francis waves at the crowd of 1.5 million people who attended the closing Mass of World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal on Aug. 6, 2023. / Vatican Media. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 30, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis maintained a busy travel schedule in 2023, visiting six different countries on three…
Children of Afghan immigrants to St. Louis play during a holiday party on Dec. 9, 2023. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Dec 30, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). Despite dominating the news cycle for months in 2021, the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and the plight of the thousands of people who…
Of the seven letters sent by Ignatius on his way to Rome—where death and triumph in equal measure await him—surely the most intimate and impassioned is the one written and dispatched to the church of Rome herself. It is an intensely personal account, having little if anything to say about either shoring up the Office…
In the first part of this essay, I traced the outline of the life and career of Fyodor Dostoevsky, and I detailed how he pursued his struggle with modern ideas through the creation of his novels—in particular, how he created characters seemingly trapped by powerful but false beliefs that doomed them. In this second installment,…
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