Phil Donahue, talk show pioneer and ‘lapsed Catholic’ who courted controversy, dies at 88
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 17:20 pm Phil Donahue, a self-described “lapsed Catholic” who reinvented the daytime television talk-show format beginning in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in New York at age 88. Born in Cleveland in 1935 and raised in a Catholic family, Donahue …
Planned Parenthood mobilizes for Democratic convention in Chicago
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 13:30 pm Planned Parenthood is offering free abortions and vasectomies to residents and visitors in Chicago as the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicks off in the city’s downtown. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which dispenses abortion and contraception in southern Illinois, said …
Cardinal Cupich decries ‘fear of the other,’ calls for unity at Democratic convention
By Peter Laffin CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 11:21 am In his prayer of invocation at the opening night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Chicago archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich lamented the “ongoing injustices in our national life” while calling for national unity. Speaking before a packed house at …
Pope Francis receives Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
By Walter Sánchez Silva ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 14:45 pm Pope Francis received Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon — who was accompanied by his fiancée, Lauren Sanchez — at the Vatican last week. The Vatican Press Office made no mention of the meeting in its bulletin …
Keeping the Body with Holiness and Reverence: Part 2
Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” (TOB). We have seen in previous articles that purity of heart is necessary if we are to fulfill the commandment “thou shall not commit adultery.” This purity requires conversion of heart …
Co-Ops for Faithful Education
Late summer means it is time to go back to school. While some students are packing up their backpacks, grabbing their brown paper lunch bags and heading out the door to catch the bus, others have an easier commute. Some young people instead head to the kitchen table to begin …
Royalmont on Pilgrimage
For some, the thought of going to Ireland sounds like a dream vacation, but for Royalmont Academy students, their recent trip there had a much deeper purpose, a pilgrimage. Josh Ater, Head of School at Royalmont Academy, expressed the importance of taking a pilgrimage, “Too often, we forget the universality …
What We Have Seen and Heard
On Sept. 9, 1984, 10 Black Bishops came together and published a pastoral letter as a testament to the Black community. This pastoral letter was titled What We Have Seen and Heard, and in it the bishops convey that evangelization involves both a call and a response; it is not …
Other Gospels
Is it true that the Church destroyed other gospels besides the four Gospels? In the early Christian world, there were many writings about Jesus and the apostles—not just the four canonical Gospels and other writings that became part of the New Testament. Additional related writings from this time that the …
Busca al Senor
Dios creó los cielos y la tierra, estableciendo un universo ordenado a partir de lo que había sido el caos. Entre todo lo que existe – la tierra y el mar, los árboles y las flores, los pájaros, los peces y los animales – el hombre y la mujer se …
