LUCERA, Italy (ChurchMilitant.com) – An Italian bishop is warning laity and visitors to the diocese’s cathedral and churches not to treat the altar like a stage. An Extinction Rebellion protester rushes to the altar in Turin On Advent Sunday, the diocese of Lucera-Troia, in the ecclesiastical region of Puglia in southern Italy, posted a stern rebuke…
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Pope Francis speaks at his general audience on Dec. 6, 2023, in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Dec 6, 2023 / 09:22 am (CNA). Pope Francis’ multi-week catechetical series on the essential components of the proclamation of the Gospel culminated with a fourth and final component: the Holy…
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke during the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, June 29, 2019. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 6, 2023 / 10:10 am (CNA). Reports emerged last week that Cardinal Raymond Burke — a prominent American archbishop — will soon lose his current Vatican…
Detroit (ChurchMilitant.com) – A new live-action feature film about the Holy Eucharist is in the works. Angelo Libutti The film, titled The New Manna, is being directed by Angelo Libutti. It aims to explore the enigma of the Holy Eucharist and showcase various Eucharistic miracles that have occurred over time. Libutti has reported that the…
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Two vignettes: Both matters came to mind recently while reading “The Ethicist.” In case you don’t know, “The Ethicist” is a New York Times help column written by Kwame Appiah, who teaches ethics at New York University. The ethical dilemmas his correspondents pose are hardly those of my childhood, which focused on whether to bring…
You don’t see it as much anymore, but many good Catholic Examinations of Conscience used to refer to a “fear of Hell” as an acceptable, albeit imperfect, means of contrition when confessing one’s sins. Perhaps it’s our modern desensitization to the reality of Hell and the demonic, or the failure of Church leadership to adequately…
