The California Catholic Conference is calling on residents to urge legislators to pass a bill restricting “addictive features” on social media for children under 16 in the same week that Meta agreed to pay billions of dollars and add safety […]
California’s Catholic bishops are urging state lawmakers to end child marriage in what is one of just three states with no minimum age to wed, as a bill to close the loophole heads toward a vote on the Senate floor. […]
On June 27, Bishop Alberto Rojas welcomed LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families and friends to a special Family Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral in San Bernardino. The liturgy was co-coordinated by Embrace and Gifted and Called, two […]
Several U.S. bishops in recent months have tightened diocesan funeral policies, emphasizing stricter adherence to the Order of Christian Funerals (OCF) amid evolving popular practices at funerals that depart from Church norms and concern visitations, eulogies, and cremated remains, among […]
During a one-hour conversation on July 17 at Vance’s pool house, Bishop Robert Barron and Vice-president J.D. Vance covered much ground – Father Rene Girard, Peter Thiel, Thomas Aquinas – but there were surprises. Example: […]
Today’s CWN briefs brings the report that the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) has presented its top annual honor, the John Courtney Murray Award, to Bryan Massingale, who describes himself as “both a black theologian and a publicly gay/queer/same-gender […]
Father Joseph Illo, pastor of Star of the Sea parish in San Francisco, gave this 21-minute homily on Sunday, July 12. I’d like to welcome a seminarian, Benil, a friend of Will Hayes, who was with […]
Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists. This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of […]
Again the Pope says that the just-war tradition is outdated. And again I ask: What’s the alternative? “The theory of a just war dates back to centuries when it was impossible to imagine the weapons and the […]
Your Eminence: In an article recently published by a major German Catholic website, you suggested that the question of whether the Church can ordain women has not been definitively settled: “I cannot imagine how a Church […]
