CNA Columns
It’s Lent- “God bless the muskrat, for she is a fish”
We talk with writer Matthew Schmitz about weird Lenten foods, and take a deep dive into the Michigan custom of... Read more
Sticking With the Church
This column is being written on the eve of a much-publicized summit meeting of bishops from around the world whom... Read more
CNA Newsroom: "A nun, a comic, and an Iranian walk into the Church"
This week on CNA Newsroom, we're talking converts! We interview three converts to the Catholic faith: Sister Brittany... Read more
The Court and the Cross
Two years after his death, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is missed for many reasons, not least among... Read more
Manifesto of Faith
“Let not your heart be troubled!” (John 14:1) In the face of growing confusion about the doctrine of the Faith,... Read more
The laity and the crisis
Can a one-day conference at a university breathe life into a cause that lately appears to have stalled: involving the... Read more
Anti-Catholicism: “the last acceptable prejudice”
In The Innocents Abroad, published in1869, Mark Twain humorously narrates his travels thorough Europe and the Holy Land. He goes... Read more
Vatican PR
One day back when I was doing media relations for the American bishops’ conference, a journalist asked me what my... Read more
One in a million: reflections on NY's Reproductive Health Act
Has anyone ever told you in life, “you’re one in a million”? For me, that sentence has a whole new... Read more
Can Asia Bibi remain acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan?
This Tuesday a three-judge panel of Pakistan’s Supreme Court will decide whether to reconsider its acquittal of a Pakistani Christian... Read more
The spiritual exercise of dropping your daily nets
My house is a spectacular mess. I keep waiting for someone from the government to show up in a Hazmat... Read more
Prosperity gospel is a travesty of the good news of Christ
Perhaps the most appalling aspect of televangelism is what is called “the prosperity gospel,” that is the conviction that God... Read more
Primacy vs. synodality
Something that happened at a bishops’ meeting nearly half a century ago raises questions about the Vatican’s action last month... Read more
Heaven is the fulfilment of earth
Recently I received a letter from a lady in Seattle in which she said that when she dies she will... Read more
Keeping watch in the little hours
When the good folks who organize perpetual adoration are trying to recruit adorers – a formidable and honorable task to... Read more
The collapse of our country: the antidote
Beneath the soil of every continent lie buried the ruins of fallen civilizations. The Sumerians, Akkadians, Mayans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Minoans,... Read more
Prolife Prospects Hopeful but Uncertain
When thousands of prolifers turn out for the annual March for Life in Washington on January 18, four days before... Read more
On gene editing
A Chinese scientist, Jiankui He, last month announced the birth of twin babies whose genes he claims to have modified... Read more
The Multilayered Multiverse –"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"
Do you know how great it is to be a nerdy dad in the 21st Century? Very few things are... Read more
In Praise of Rudolph, et alia
Deploring the commercialization, secularization, and general thinning-out of the spiritual meaning of Christmas is part of the stock in trade... Read more
