Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Benedict Kiely, The Catholic Thing - I recently saw a request on social media for people to say why they were Christians in five words or less. I was tempted to paraphrase Chesterton’s reason for his Catholicism and use three words: “It is true.” Then I remembered novelist and Catholic convert Walker Percy, when asked why he had converted to Catholicism, responded: “What else is there?”... Is there any greater mission statement, which every parish seems to require, or a better blueprint for evangelization?

By Bishop Athanasius Schneider, The Catholic Thing - .... I would like to address some important points of the Instrumentum Laboris for the October 2023 Session of the Synod on Synodality. This Working Document or Instrumentum appears to undermine the Divine constitution and the Apostolic character of the life and mission of the Catholic Church, substituting for them an invented “synodal church,” inspired predominantly by Protestant, social and anthropocentric categories. Below are several principal areas of concern.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - As we reported on Wednesday, the canonization of both Pier Giorgio Frassati (†1925) and Carlo Acutis (†2006) have been approved and scheduled. Blessed Pier Giorgio will be canonized during the Jubilee for Youth (July 28 to August 3 in 2025) and Blessed Carlo during the Jubilee for Teenagers in St. Peter’s Square on April 27, 2025. The first died at the age of 24 and the second at 15... Since Carlo Acutis died relatively recently, most readers will have heard of the many books published about his life by Catholic outlets ....