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Pope Francis gives his blessing after leading the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 13, 2022.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
America’s readers respond to an article by Terence Sweeney’s in which he says that supporting Pope Francis is fully compatible with being a “traditional” Catholic.
FaithShort Take
Terence Sweeney
Both critics and supporters fail to see the traditionalism of Pope Francis. Let us share his confidence in Christ. Let us join him in guarding the tradition and preaching the good news.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
While the church’s prayer should not be a battlefield, Archbishop Roche says it is understandable that people are passionate about it.
FaithFaith in Focus
Ana Maria Pineda
Rutilio Grande, S.J., who will be beatified on Jan. 22, has much to teach us about how to live a life of Christian discipleship.
Carmelite Father Casimir Borcz celebrates a Tridentine Mass at the Carmelite Monastery in Munster, Ind., in this March 31, 2007 file photo. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway)
FaithShort Take
Kevin Clarke
Recent edicts and explanations of edicts out of Rome have ignited a familiarly unpleasant conflict in the U.S. church. And yet, though this will infuriate a vocal minority of my fellow Catholics, I just don’t get the brouhaha over the traditional Latin Mass.
Flames and smoke billow from the Notre-Dame Cathedral after a fire broke out in Paris on April 15, 2019.
FaithShort Take
Doug Girardot
Like many parish churches built in the 1970s and ’80s, the Notre-Dame redesign seems to take its inspiration from sensibilities unique to our own decades, rather than drawing on time-tested understandings of God.