My wife, Pat, and I just returned from an important trip to Rome – a trip of gratitude, to give thanks for God’s guidance in acquiring a “Building For Life” with assistance of the Knights of Columbus Church Loan Program. The new headquarters for the Austin-based John Paul II Life and Family Center (JPII Life…
CNA—A Christian teacher settled in court for $360,000 earlier this week after suing a California school district board for firing her after she refused to comply with gender ideology rules that went against her religious beliefs. Refusing to comply with gender ideology “preferred pronoun rule” After refusing to comply with a preferred pronoun rule, Jessica…
CNA—This weekend, the longest Catholic pilgrimages ever organized in the United States — possibly the world — will commence on the edges of the country. The National Eucharistic Pilgrimages, organized as part of the multiyear National Eucharistic Revival, will see a group of young men and women collectively walk over 6,500 miles, carrying the Eucharist…
CNA—A sequestered Catholic college in the foothills of California launched an energy program that has nearly eliminated the college’s carbon footprint while saving $600,000 a year, giving the school more reliable energy than the state power grid. A unique college, even among Catholic colleges Thomas Aquinas College (TAC), a campus of more than 500 students,…
ACI Prensa—Along with other saints, every May 10 the Church honors St. John of Avila, the patron saint of the Spanish clergy. This renowned founder of schools and centers of formation and study recorded in one of his writings what he considered to be the best gift we can give to our heavenly mother, the…
CNA—05-10-24—Construction is nearing completion on the St. Charbel Maronite Church in Doha, Qatar, with plans to open its doors to worshippers in 2025, coinciding with the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year, according to Father Charbel Mhanna from Qatar’s Maronite parish. In an interview with ACI Mena, CNA’s Arabic-language news partner, Mhanna explained that with a capacity…
CNA—New Bishop James Ruggieri became a Third Order Franciscan not long before his ordination in Portland, Maine, on Tuesday — a marker of why Pope Francis appointed him. Love for the poor and homeless Ruggieri, 56, profiled by the National Catholic Register, CNA’s sister news partner, in April, is known for driving a food truck…
CNA/ACI Prensa— World Press Freedom Day is celebrated every May 3, drawing attention to the importance of free and independent news media. Among modern-day saints, there is a journalist-priest who suffered martyrdom by the Nazis for his work in Catholic media: St. Titus Brandsma. St. Titus (1881–1942), canonized by Pope Francis in 2022, was a…
CNA—Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, said on Thursday that the protests making national headlines at the New York City school are being organized in part by “explicitly communist” outside forces. “There is an instrumentalization of what’s going on in Gaza to advance an agenda,” he said. “And that is to deconstruct…
This second edition by Dr. Andrew V. Abela and Dr. Joseph Capizzi streamlines some of the editing from the first edition, and more importantly, includes material from Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si, and his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium. A Catechism for Business presents the teachings of the Catholic Church as they relate to more than…
CNA—“The good makes no noise,” St. Francis de Sales would say of Lille’s candlelight Mass. Indeed, while France regularly shows itself to be at the forefront of the de-Christianization of the West and recently made headlines for its constitutionalization of abortion, the embers of Christian renewal are already igniting — quietly yet powerfully — on…
OK, we admit it… We at Catholic Business Journal absolutely love this photo of the Pope on a boat to Venice. Viva Italia!! That said, this particular trip of Pope Francis is a good reminder that we as Catholic business leaders are living our vocation more fully– as Catholics– when we include serving others in…
CNA—Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati could be declared a saint during the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, according to the head of the Vatican’s office for saints’ causes. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, announced at Catholic Action’s national assembly in Sacrofano, Italy, on April 26 that Frassati’s canonization…
CNA—Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Elena Guerra, paving the way for the canonization of a new female saint known as “an apostle of the Holy Spirit.” A friend of Pope Leo XIII and the teacher of St. Gemma Galgani, Elena Guerra (1835–1914) is known for her spiritual writings…
CNA—When Luke Burgis moved to Silicon Valley to start a business, he never expected he would become a seminarian and then go on to launch entrepreneurship programs for Catholic students. Burgis had attended NYU, worked on Wall Street, started several businesses in Silicon Valley, and moved to Las Vegas before deciding he wanted more meaning…
CNA—A new film depicting the incredible true story of Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish Catholic nurse who risked her own life to hide Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II, debuts in theaters across the country April 15-16. The young Catholic nurse at the heart of the story: Irena Gut “Irena’s Vow” is…
The year was 1891. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution sweeping the Western world at the time, radical changes were taking place in society regarding working conditions, property ownership, government responsibility vs. individual responsibility, and most fundamentally regarding the critical importance of recognizing the dignity of each individual human person. Looking at these social…
Bianca Jagger just issued a thundering warning about Nicaragua’s human rights abuses: “Just like the Castro Regime did in Cuba during the 1960s,” she wrote in the U.K.’s Independent, Nicaragua has put “harsh restrictions on religious freedom, practices, and church processions. Catholic education has been forbidden.” She even compares the country’s current purge of the Catholic…
CNA—The Archdiocese of Baltimore is suing numerous insurers over their alleged failure to pay for abuse claims stretching back several decades. The archdiocese filed for bankruptcy in September of last year ahead of a state law that ended the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits for negligence concerning child sexual abuse. The law opened the archdiocese up…
CNA—A pro-life Catholic lawmaker in the Nebraska Legislature is switching his party registration from Democrat to Republican because of the Democratic Party’s staunch support of abortion. Sen. Mike McDonnell, who had been a registered Democrat for 40 years before this week, said in a news conference that his party change was caused by the Democratic…
