Articles by Mary Farrow
Archdiocese faces third discrimination complaint over same-sex marriage policy
Oct 29, 2019 / 15:00 pmThe Archdiocese of Indianapolis on Wednesday defended its decision not to renew the contract of a school employee who publicly defended the same-sex marriages of two former colleagues.
Dead Theologians Society: The ‘memento mori’ youth group
Oct 28, 2019 / 14:12 pmThe incredible story of the Dead Theologians Society.
Relics of Canadian saints stolen from Quebec City's Cathedral
Oct 25, 2019 / 13:30 pmThe Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame in Quebec is working to replace relics of Canadian saints that were stolen after a break-in last month.
Canonization cause opens for Australian woman who was a ‘champion’ of human dignity
Oct 23, 2019 / 17:00 pmOn Wednesday, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP of Sydney announced the opening of the cause of canonization for Eileen O’Connor, a young Australian woman who founded the order Our Lady’s Nurses of the Poor, also known as Brown Nurses.
Grant offered for creation of artificial wombs to help premature babies
Oct 20, 2019 / 15:01 pmA university in the Netherlands has been awarded a $3.3 million grant for the development of a working prototype of an artificial womb that will closely resemble biological conditions and aid in the development of premature babies.
New hotline connects women in crisis pregnancies to resources, community
Oct 17, 2019 / 16:06 pmWhen Pamela Whitehead takes a call for LoveLine, a new pregnancy helpline, she listens.
How a miracle through Cardinal Newman saved a mother and baby in a dangerous pregnancy
Oct 12, 2019 / 03:01 amWhen Melissa Villalobos first heard about Cardinal John Henry Newman, she had no idea the pivotal role he would play in her life, nor the pivotal role she would play in his cause for sainthood. The Catholic wife and mother from Chicago stumbled into a show about Newman on EWTN “just by accident” in 2000, while she was getting ready for work and ironing her clothes. She was struck by what the show had to say about him.
Why this Franciscan nun is about to run her 10th marathon
Oct 3, 2019 / 11:00 amSr. Stephanie Baliga is about to run her tenth marathon. Here's why.
The important legacy of the US' sole Catholic historically black university
Sep 22, 2019 / 15:01 pmThis week the country marked National HBCU Week to recognize the accomplishments of historically black colleges and universities throughout the United States.
In robota Christi? Why robots can never be Catholic priests
Sep 18, 2019 / 15:34 pmOnce a man is ordained a priest for the Catholic Church, he acts, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “in persona Christi capitis”: in the person of Christ the Head.
ND judge nixes law requiring doctors to inform women on abortion pill reversal
Sep 12, 2019 / 17:01 pmAfter a North Dakota judge nixed part of a new law requiring doctors to inform their patients about abortion pill reversal, pro-life advocates say they hope the decision will be overturned.
9/11: When John Paul II grieved with America
Sep 11, 2019 / 02:28 amAs three airliners smashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, and Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, at the time the director of the Vatican press office, delivered the news to Pope John Paul II.
Marriage is 'colorblind' but not 'sex-blind', says Catholic author
Sep 5, 2019 / 02:05 amAfter a wedding venue employee in Mississippi cited her Christian beliefs in refusing to host the wedding of a mixed-race couple, a Catholic scholar clarified that “marriage is a colorblind institution.”
After Epstein death, theologians discuss suicide, salvation, and the obligations of the state
Aug 15, 2019 / 16:03 pmCNA spoke with three moral theologians about suicide, on the hope for salvation that the Church holds for those who take their lives, and the obligations of the state to protect prisoners from themselves.
After Philadelphia police shootings, Chaput calls for 'sensible solutions' to violence
Aug 15, 2019 / 14:25 pmAfter a standoff between police and a gunman in Philadelphia yesterday, in which six officers were shot, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has praised the work of the responding officers and called for solutions to root causes of violence.
Why the 'fact-checking' of Christian satire worries this Catholic writer
Aug 14, 2019 / 02:01 amDid you know that Veggie Tales, the beloved Christian cartoon for kids, recently introduced a new character named Cannabis Carl in celebration of recreational marijuana?
What the Church does - and does not - teach about gun control
Aug 8, 2019 / 16:12 pmJordan Anchondo and her husband, Andre were shopping for school supplies for their five-year-old last Saturday morning at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. They were shot and killed by a gunman who opened fire on the hundreds of people in the store.
How one Cambodian refugee found Catholicism through her mother
Jul 30, 2019 / 02:17 amPhally Budock owes a lot to her mother.
First Nations Canadians celebrate St. Kateri as a bridge between cultures
Jul 28, 2019 / 04:00 amSt. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be canonized a saint, was celebrated by First Nations people throughout Canada on her July feast day as an important cultural bridge between Catholicism and First Nations people.
Why some Catholic women say an NFP-shaming article was ‘off the charts’
Jul 25, 2019 / 13:35 pmNFP, or Natural Family Planning, is an oft misunderstood thing.