Richard Gaillardetz is the Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College. He is the author of By What Authority? Foundations for Understanding Authority in the Church; the revised edition was just released by Liturgical Press, and An Unfinished...
During her childhood in North Korea, Mi Jin Kang never believed in the existence of God, until one person began to spark her curiosity. “From school education, I learned that religion is a drug,” Mi Jin told CNA, “However, I heard the story of God from a girl that I...
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a diocesan bishop in Nigeria who has been at the centre of a long-running dispute in which local priests refused to accept his oversight. In its daily press bulletin, the Holy See said Pope Francis had accepted the...
If Christians in the Middle East are going to be “honest” with their Muslim dialogue partners, said Chaldean Arch-bishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, Muslims will have to acknowledge that the persecution of Christians in the region did not start with the Islamic...
The Vatican’s most senior liturgical official says the pra- ctise of receiving communion on the hand is part of a “dia- bolical attack” on the Church which diminishes reverence to God. Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship and...
