Love is a free gift; it cannot be coerced, manipulated, or commodified. The greatest example of this is found in the Incarnation ..read more

A patient at the new Misky María Palliative Care Hospital located on the outskirts of Lima, Perú. / Credit: Asociación de las Bienaventuranzas (Association of the Beatitudes) ACI Prensa Staff, May 4, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). In the context of the ..read more

Professor Mouna Maroun is the first Arab to be elected as the rector of an Israeli university, the University of Haifa. Maroun belongs to the Arab minority in Israel, the Christian minority among Arabs, and the Maronite minority among Christians ..read more

Mother Marla Marie stands on the front porch of the sisters’ Mother of the Light convent in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Boston, Mass., May 4, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). It was 1983, in the last years of the Cold War, when 21 ..read more

Just northeast of the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, lies the site of a magnificent miracle. And today that site—the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion—is the only approved Marian apparition site in the ..read more

Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News The World Over / Screenshot Washing ..read more

A few years ago on YouTube, there was a brief and fascinating fad for “tensegrity tables.” Tensegrity is a portmanteau combining “tensional” and “integrity,” and refers to structures whose parts are held together by a ..read more

Tim Sullivan’s recent piece for the Associated Press on the state of the Church in America has made the rounds in Catholic circles, and it feels like a generally accurate snapshot of where things are and ..read more

Father Greg Boyle gives an address at “We ♥ LA: An Urban Retreat for LA's Passionate Leaders” in 2010. / Credit: durfeefoundation, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 3, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA). The White House on Friday announced that Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, the founder of a prominent ministry dedicated to rehabilitating gang-affiliated youth, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom alongside 18 other recipients this afternoon.  Boyle, ordained a priest in 1984, founded Homeboy Industries in 1992 while pastor of Dolores Mission, a Catholic church and school in an area ..read more

Martyred by the Nazis, Dutch St. Titus Brandsma was a journalist who gave his life so that the truths of the faith would not be silenced. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons CNA Newsroom, May 3, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA). World Press Freedom Day is celebra ..read more