9+ hour, 53+ min ago   (247+ words) August 16, 2026 (Readings on USCCB website) Mass Propers for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Entrance Antiphon, Ps 84(83):10-11: Turn your eyes, O God, our shield; and look on the face of your anointed one; one day within your courts is better…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (180+ words) » Continue to this story on Religion Clause CWN Editor's Note: The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a Protestant pastor’s admission, in a conversation with his co-pastor (and brother-in-law), that he sexually abused the latter’s 13-year-old niece, does not fall under…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (178+ words) » Continue to this story on Thomas More Law Center CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, joined a Lutheran nursing home and four doctors in filing a lawsuit to halt the implementation of the state’s new assisted-suicide law....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (173+ words) » Continue to this story on What We Need Now CWN Editor's Note: The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, in an address to the recent Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus, paid tribute to patriotism, which…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (255+ words) The members of the Catholic Biblical Association of America elected a Jewish scholar, Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, as the association’s president. Dr. Levine is a professor at the Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and professor emerita at Vanderbilt University....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (163+ words) » Continue to this story on EWTN News CWN Editor's Note: A predominantly Garo Catholic village in Bangladesh was attacked after the body of a Muslim man was found buried near a canal there. Eleven homes were looted, according to a…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1243+ words) Other Commemorations: St. Tarcisius, Martyr (RM); St. Hyacinth of Poland, Priest (RM); St. Stanislaus Kostka (RM); Other Titles: Dormition of Our Lady (Eastern Rite) August 15, 2026 (Readings on USCCB website) Mass Propers for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Entrance…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (132+ words) » Continue to this story on Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia CWN Editor's Note: The Episcopal Conference of Colombia declared Sunday, August 16, as a national day of prayer for victims of the severe earthquake there. The bishops also launched a national fundraising…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (208+ words) An English bishop who was charged with rape in June made his first court appearance via video and was released on bail. Bishop David Oakley of Northampton was charged with two counts of rape of a girl under 16; the rapes…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (178+ words) A person attempted to set fire to a parish in Kielce, a city of 190,000 in south-central Poland. On the night of August 3-4, the person placed a burning package beneath the side door of St. Joseph the Worker Church. A nearby…...