Advent: From the Latin ad-venio, to come to. “Send down the dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just One: let the earth be opened, and bud…

CNA — Washington’s archbishop, who will be made a cardinal this weekend, told a journalist Tuesday that in his diocese, he will not deny Holy Communion to a politician who…

The American elections have made it clear that the Catholic Church now accepts abortion, considers it normal for a Catholic politician to include it in their agenda and believes that…

A distinguished Italian economist is deriding Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti as “not at all inspired by the thought of St. Francis of Assisi, but rather by the satirical novel Utopia by St. Thomas…

It is deeply disturbing to read that, in one Asian cardinal’s opinion, Christianity must be baptized into Eastern religions: “The Church needs to be baptized in the Jordan of Asian…

The new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (hereafter FT), is an atypical papal document. First, because contrary to tradition, it is not addressed to the Catholic bishops, clergy, or faithful.1 Instead, it is written for…

The Catholic Faith in the voice of the Magisterium of all times, the sense of the faith of the faithful (sensus fidelium) as well as common sense clearly reject any…

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, in his first reaction to the new papal interview which endorses civil unions of same-sex couples, states that when there is a conflict between the words of…

Pope Francis’s encyclical Fratelli Tutti presents a dilemma for all who defend the right of private property. On the one hand, the teaching document Pope Francis signed on October 3 questions this right. On the…

The worldwide communications media have reported with strong emphasis, as a change of course, the news that Pope Francis has declared that persons in the homosexual condition, as children of…