New Advent

Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly ...

https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-venice-biennale-885ddbcd4171c3ba08e1e8ee6039ddc2

‘Is forgiveness and being forgiven an important part of gratitude?” I was asked this as Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, an Iraqi-born Assyrian bishop in Sydney, released a statement from a hospital...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/our-politics-needs-gratitude-and-forgiveness/

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross revealed the greatest act of love that destroyed the works of the Devil, defeated the authority of sin and death, and provided a salvific path for all God�...

https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/walk-spirit-avoid-flesh

Hondo Underwood is a former car thief. He stole hundreds of cars in and around Denver between 2016 and 2017.

http://blog.newadvent.org/2024/04/former-car-thief-explains-how-car-theft.html

The first reading from Sunday’s Mass features an excerpt from a sermon by St. Peter. The contents of the sermon are very similar to others recorded in the Acts of the Apostles by Saints Paul an...

https://blog.adw.org/2024/04/the-ancient-biblical-sermons-break-all-the-modern-rules-maybe-the-rules-should-be-re-examined/

Over the past few days, there has been discussion on X/Twitter – and I suppose elsewhere – of the morality of the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not that th...

https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/the-bomb/

In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us that He is the true vine that God intended Israel to be, the source of divine life and wisdom for the nations (see Sirach 24:17–24). In Baptism, each of us w...

https://stpaulcenter.com/audio/sunday-bible-reflections/on-the-vine-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-fifth-sunday-of-easter/

Carmelite nuns at a Texas monastery say they will not accept the Vatican’s designation of a U.S. Carmelite federation to oversee them, amid an ongoing dispute with their local bishop.

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/texas-carmelites-reject-oversight

“What a strange feeling it is to be looking at what by all appearances is a piece of bread in a little glass compartment in the center of a very simple gold monstrance and feel like you are the...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/five-stories-eucharist-revealed

The CEO of Cisco Systems signed the Vatican’s artificial intelligence ethics pledge on Wednesday, becoming the latest technology giant to join the Church’s call for ethical and responsible us...

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257485/cisco-ceo-meets-pope-francis-signs-ai-ethics-pledge-at-vatican

Many years ago, a friend visiting an Eastern European country diligently wrote several postcards, stamped them, and then dropped them in what he thought was a mailbox. It turned out to be a very ...

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/22/the-pro-life-movement-has-a-storytelling-problem/

“What is truth?” That cynical question, memorably posed by Pontius Pilate, is enjoying new currency today, thanks to public statements by Katherine Maher, the newly installed head of National...

https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/what-is-truth-journalist-asks-pilates-question/

In the Psalms, one of the arguments used with some frequency by those who feel abandoned by God runs like this: First, a rhetorical question is asked about whether the dead can praise God, the pr...

https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/in-psalms-peculiar-argument-to-win-gods-favor/

One of the more puzzling elements in the Gospel descriptions of the post-Resurrection appearances of Jesus is the fact that Matthew’s Gospel ends on a mountaintop in Galilee, while Luke’s acc...

https://stpaulcenter.com/did-jesus-appear-to-the-disciples-in-jerusalem-or-galilee/

At the Regina Coeli on Good Shepherd Sunday, Pope Francis reminds us that Jesus loves us without limit, giving His life for us. He prays that we may go meet the Lord and allow ourselves "to be we...

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-04/pope-at-regina-coeli-jesus-good-shepherd-awaits-us-open-arms.html

Last year, I received a phone call from Father Dwight. “Joseph,’ he said, “I have an idea.” “Well,” I quipped, laughing. “That’s a first!” “We should start a Catholic college ...

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/04/rosary-college-joseph-pearce.html

Perhaps the most overlooked truth about human life is that we are made for contemplation. All of us. It’s not that our activist and practical age directly rejects this. Almost worse, our custom...

https://life-craft.org/made-for-contemplation-3-practical-applications-for-everyday/

As the NFL draft approaches at the end of April, speculation runs rampant among fans about which players their teams will take and which areas of their rosters have the greatest needs. As a lifel...

https://denvercatholic.org/the-church-draft-gods-divine-roster-for-an-apostolic-age/

Close your eyes and imagine standing in the outfield of a big baseball game. You can’t see the ball but after the pitcher winds up, you hear the crack of the bat. Your first step is backwards a...

https://websterjournal.com/2024/04/26/blind-baseball-world-series-coming-to-st-charles/

I’m so blessed to have Dr. Peter Malinoski back on the show to chat about this. We chat about some fascinating questions, such as how do we tell the difference between the truth and a conspirac...

http://blog.newadvent.org/2024/04/heres-truth-about-conspiracy-theories.html

Jesus compares himself to a plant in the Gospel reading for Mass on the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B. In fact, this Gospel comes from the night before he died, in the Last Supper Discourse, aft...

https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-jesus-is-the-vine-that-leads-from-genesis-and-to-the-new-jerusalem

I must say, I think everyone at Catholic Answers is taking the AI priest debacle — and it has been a bit of a debacle — in pretty good humor. It takes an admirable dose of humility to admit t...

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/what-you-pray-for-virtual-priesthood

In an interview released on Wednesday, Pope Francis endorsed a practice that used to be frowned upon but now is a robust phenomenon among practicing Catholics: choosing their own parish. Pope Fra...

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/did-pope-francis-just-endorse-parish-shopping

Pope Francis is reportedly considering returning to the United States in September to speak before the United Nations General Assembly. The news was initially reported by the French Catholic news...

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257496/pope-francis-may-visit-united-states-in-september-after-un-invitation

While Lent offers us a clear path of conversion, turning away from the world, Easter invites us into God’s own life. In Lent, we seek to die with Christ; in Easter, we must live with him. It ap...

https://denvercatholic.org/the-fullness-of-life-bishop-erik-vardens-resurrection-of-chastity/

Pope Francis pleaded for peace worldwide amid ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, telling CBS News on Wednesday that "a negotiated peace is better than a war without end." "Please. Countries at war...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-norah-odonnell-interview/

Since you have no intention of denying any rightful moral or professional claims to your gender-confused colleagues, signing such a document should pose no problems. But since you are dealing wit...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/non-discrimination-policies-slippery-slope

Do human beings have infinite dignity? Certainly, those who through baptism receive a share in the divine nature, which is by definition infinite, also share in the infinite dignity of that natur...

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/04/13/dignitas-infinita-strengths-and-ambiguities/

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is putting the finishing touches to a new document that sets out clear rules on discerning apparitions and other such supernatural events. The dicaster...

https://www.ncregister.com/news/cardinal-fernandez-new-document-on-discerning-apparitions-being-finalized

Just because you see something done in a movie, that doesn't mean you should try it yourself. Take, for example, a human running on top of a moving train. For starters, you can't be sure it's rea...

https://www.wired.com/story/can-you-really-run-on-top-of-a-train/

Xavier University’s health insurance plan not only appears to cover abortion – it looks like the school specifically added it into the coverage.But the Catholic Cincinatti university denies i...

https://www.thecollegefix.com/catholic-xavier-university-lists-abortion-in-health-insurance-plan/

Taking chastity seriously requires a belief that communion with God, life in Christ, and holiness are more important than our desires, our inner turmoils, and our existential crises—and, in fac...

https://whatweneednow.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-reign-of-gay-ecclesiastical

We find our starting point in the plausible assertion that modern man would find it difficult to relate to the Church’s traditional sexual morality. Instead, it is said, he has come to terms wi...

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2023/07/14/what-is-the-source-of-objections-to-catholic-sexual-morality/

Father Justin, we hardly knew ye.Less than two days after debuting an artificial intelligence (AI) priest character to overwhelmingly negative reviews, Catholic Answers has given “Father Justin...

https://www.ncregister.com/news/catholic-answers-ai-priest-cancelled

“This destroyed household that now stands between the sexes is a wound that is suffered inescapably by both men and women.” My eyes were opened when I read these words of Wendell Berry. My wi...

https://life-craft.org/husbands-and-wives-need-husbandry-and-housewifery/