5+ hour, 52+ min ago   (1083+ words) Study Group 7 says bishops’ visits to Rome should be instruments of missionary conversion, communal discernment, and greater co-responsibility in the Church. VATICAN CITY — For centuries, “ad limina apostolorum” visits — the periodic pilgrimage of diocesan bishops to the tombs of the…...

8+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1756+ words) Gov Hyacinth Alia of Benue State Let me state my position plainly. I do not defend everything Fr. Alia does. I defend the Catholic principle that an erring priest must be corrected without being reduced to the sum of his…...

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (622+ words) by INFOVATICANA | September 14, 2026 The feast has its roots in fourth-century Jerusalem and was later linked both to the veneration of Christ’s Cross and to the recovery of the relic after the Persians seized it in the seventh century. Crucifixion was…...

9+ hour, 38+ min ago   (364+ words) EcoOne, an expression of the Focolare Movement that brings together professionals, teachers, technicians, students and others passionate about ecology, has organized an international meeting to be held from 18th-20th September 2026 in Castel Gandolfo (Italy). Participants from all five continents will take…...

10+ hour, 52+ min ago   (475+ words) By Bill Papastergiadis OAM, President, Greek Community of Melbourne Metropolitan Myron of New Zealand, Andrew Mesourouni, my son Lee and I recently had the privilege of meeting Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Constantinople. Over lunch and during a private meeting that…...

9+ hour, 31+ min ago   (54+ words) David Hahn, The Catholic Herald on Monday, September 14, 2026 Not many Catholics are familiar with the devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Mary on September 15, but it captures a unique side of spiritual life. Hope after 9/11, stories of faith and courage…...

9+ hour, 30+ min ago   (324+ words) Casey Chalk on Monday, September 14, 2026 The Church offers a different way of understanding correction, a truly Christian ethic based on a proper anthropology, an understanding of human weakness, of repentance, forgiveness, and redemption that enables us to overcome errors. It…...

10+ hour, 24+ min ago   (1880+ words) In today’s post I would like to ponder some hard and sobering spiritual truths, but ones that will set us free. In calling them “hard truths”, I mean that they are not the usual cozy bromides that many seek. They…...

13+ hour, 49+ min ago   (659+ words) During his Angelus address yesterday, to pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV reflected on the power of forgiving others as Christ has forgiven us, in order to counter hatred, division and violence, and promote peace and love....

14+ hour, 41+ min ago   (883+ words) Governor Hyacinth Alia may not realise it, but his conduct in partisan politics is becoming one of the strongest arguments for the Catholic Church’s wisdom in keeping priests away from partisan political contests. While the impulse for a Catholic priest…...