The Catholic Message Board

I am usually focused on the next part: Therefore, O Lord, as we celebrate the memorial of the saving Passion of your Son, his wondrous Resurrection and Ascension into heaven, and as we look forward to his second coming, we offer you in thanksgiving this holy and living sacrifice. Look, we pray, upon...

The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the office of apostolic nuncio in the United States of America presented by His Eminence Cardinal Christophe Pierre, upon reaching the age limit (80). The Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, titular of Sepino, until now Hol...

U.S. Catholic bishops made an appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday, urging the justices to “protect God-given human dignity” by striking down President Donald Trump’s “immoral” executive order on birthright citizenship. “Children do nothing wrong by being born in the United States,” the U.S. Conf...

This spring, the Vatican will debut a simultaneous translation system assisted by artificial intelligence, allowing people to follow liturgical celebrations in St. Peter’s Basilica in real time in up to 60 languages. For the first time, the faithful will be able to follow the liturgy in their own la...

SSPX have rejected the postponement proposal: That said, while I certainly rejoice at a new opening of dialogue and the positive response to my proposal of 2019, I cannot accept the perspective and objectives in the name of which the Dicastery offers to resume dialogue in the present situation, nor ...

Robin Ward, former principal of St Stephen's House, an Anglo-Catholic college in Oxford, announced his reception into full communion with the Catholic Church at St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough. Ordained in the Church of England in 1991, he led the seminary from 2006 until April 2025 and authored b...

I know, or know of, hundreds of parents looking after disabled children who have a greater virtue than Chesterton and other authors.

Observers say moving ahead with new consecrations after explicitly seeking and not receiving Rome’s agreement signals a clear divergence of judgment that will likely harden positions on both sides, making any future canonical solution more difficult. They also say the move implicitly challenges how ...

The commentary I am reading says there are 8 blessings in the third person plural (e.g. blessed are poor in spirit) and one blessing in the second person plural (blessed are you...)

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has moved into a special underground shelter in Tehran after senior military and security officials assessed an increased risk of a potential US attack, two sources close to the government told Iran International. The facility was described as a fortified site with...

We are sad to report that Crux's Editor-in-Chief, John L. Allen Jr., died this afternoon, just before 2pm in Rome, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 61 years old, and is survived by his widow, Elise Ann Allen, whom you all know as Crux's Senior Vatican Correspondent. "Allen was a force...

Speaking to the BBC on Jan. 18. Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services said he “cannot see any circumstances” in which an American military operation to take control of Greenland or another ally’s territory could fulfill the criteria for a just war. The archbishop al...

Republican senator Josh Hawley, who sits on the Senate judiciary committee and is an advocate for harsher restrictions on social media, said that American parents would welcome an Australia-style ban. “I like it. I’ve supported age limits here in the US for kids on social media,” he said. “I say thi...

Pope Leo has urged President Donald Trump not to launch a war to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using military force. The Pope said Tuesday: "It is better to search for ways of dialogue, or perhaps pressure, including economic pressure." He added, during a news conference in Tu...

The Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly has called on all states to view Patriarch Kirill and his church’s leadership as extensions of Vladimir Putin’s regime and to treat them as complicit in its war crimes and crimes against humanity. The church is: “An ideological extension of Vladimir Put...

In his closing remarks at Saturday morning’s ecumenical meeting in the Church of Mor Ephrem – the Syriac Orthodox church in Istanbul that was the first new church building erected since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 – Pope Leo XIV invited everyone present at the ecumenical gathering...

Quebec says it will intensify its crackdown on public displays of religion in a sweeping new law that critics say pushes Canadian provinces into private spaces and disproportionately affects Muslims. Bill 9, introduced by the governing Coalition Avenir Québec on Thursday, bans prayer in public insti...

Bishop Cherry Vann enthroned as Anglican archbishop of Wales, becomes the first lesbian to serve as archbishop globally. Vann has been in a relationship with a female partner for 30 years. "For years, we kept our relationship secret because I worried about waking up and finding myself outed on ...

Jesus did not appear to a woman in Dozulé, France, in the 1970s, and the messages she claimed to receive, including about Jesus’ second coming, are misleading and twist central Christian teachings, said the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. “The phenomenon of the alleged appari...