St. John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, is one of only three people in history — after Jesus and Mary — whose birthday is celebrated in the Church’s liturgy. …
Because it falls exactly six months before the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord, John the Baptist’s birthday is sometimes known as “Summer Christmas.” Statue of St. John the …
Detail from “The Preaching of St John the Baptist” (c. 1690) by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639–1709) [Wikipedia Commons] Readings:• Is 49:1-6• Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15• Acts 13:22-26• Lk 1:57-66, 80 …
Little over a week ago, Fr. Joseph laid upon the sanctuary floor of St. Cecilia’s Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska. He lay there like a corpse, outstretched with face upon the …
Speaking at a conference at the Angelicum, Cardinal George Koovakad, the prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, said that brotherhood is not a utopian ideal, even amid “crimes against …
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations praised the ministry of deacons as the bishops’ conference released its annual survey on the permanent diaconate …
The Vatican newspaper published a reflection by American author Elizabeth Strout on Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo’s encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. L’Osservatore Romano …
Last October, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration sold their two-acre Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center in Wisconsin to the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Ojibwe people for its 1966 …
In a statement for the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision (CWN coverage), the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities warned that the “victory of …
Columns at the United States Supreme Court building. (Photo: Jesse Collins / Unsplash) Article III of the Constitution, which establishes the Supreme Court, is the shortest of the three articles …
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