• Meet the pro-life prisoners whom Trump is expected to pardon
    Thursday, November 21, 2024 from CNA
    From left: John Hinshaw, Jonathan Darnel, Lauren Handy, Joan Bell, and Jean Marshall are among the pro-life activists who are still in prison or awaiting prison sentences on federal charges brought by President Joe Biden’s Department of...
  • Churches around the world lit up red in honor of persecuted Christians
    Thursday, November 21, 2024 from EWTN News - World Catholic News
    St. John’s Cathedral in the Netherlands is lit up for Red Wednesday on Nov. 23, 2022. / Credit: Ldhank, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Nov 21, 2024 / 13:05 pm (CNA). Organized by the Christian aid group Aid to the Church...
  • Vatican Christmas tree wreathed in controversy over environmental objections
    Thursday, November 21, 2024 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Despite an online petition posted to change.org in mid-October that garnered over 53,000 signatures in protest of the evergreen to be used for the Vatican Christmas tree being chopped down, the tree arrived as scheduled in St. Peter’s...
  • Church beatifies German priest who was executed by Nazis in 1944
    Thursday, November 21, 2024 from EWTN News - World Catholic News
    Father Max Josef Metzger, a Catholic priest executed by the Nazi regime in 1944 for his peace activism and ecumenical work, was beatified Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, in Freiburg, Germany. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of...
  • Pope Francis assigns U.S. cardinal to carry out ‘urgent’ overhaul of Vatican pension fund
    Thursday, November 21, 2024 from CNA
    Cardinal Kevin Farrell celebrates Mass for the World Meeting of Families 2022 on June 25, 2022. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 21, 2024 / 08:03 am (CNA). Pope Francis has appointed U.S. Cardinal Kevin Farrell to oversee...
  • Gender: The problem isn’t the term but the anthropology behind it, Catholic expert says
    Thursday, November 21, 2024 from EWTN News - World Catholic News
    “In Jesus there is no contradiction between truth and charity,” notes professor Marta Rodríguez Díaz, who teaches in the philosophy department of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum. / Credit: Courtesy of Marta Rodríguez Díaz...
  • Jimmy Lai’s godfather assesses trial: ‘He’s a real champion of freedom’
    Thursday, November 21, 2024 from CNA
    “We think of these stories of saints that have withstood all this persecution as belonging to the Middle Ages,” said Bill McGurn, godfather of Jimmy Lai. “It’s going on right now, and we can see it.” / Credit: “EWTN News...
  • Wyoming governor pledges to appeal after judge blocks state pro-life laws
    Thursday, November 21, 2024 from CNA
    null / Credit: KieferPix/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 21, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news. Wyoming judge blocks state pro-life laws Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon plans to appeal to the...
  • What do we know about the presentation of Mary?
    Thursday, November 21, 2024 from CNA
    Alessandro Allori, “The Presentation of Mary,” 1598. / Credit: Public domain National Catholic Register, Nov 21, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). It’s easy to conceptualize the presentation of the Lord because we find it in Scripture. Luke’s...
  • Nairobi archbishop declines Kenyan president’s donations to Catholic parish
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from CNA
    Archbishop Philip Anyolo of the Nairobi Archdiocese in Kenya. / Credit: Nairobi Archdiocese ACI Africa, Nov 20, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). The archbishop of Kenya’s Archdiocese of Nairobi has turned down financial donations that the...
  • Jimmy Lai takes the stand in yearslong Hong Kong national security trial
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from CNA
    Jimmy Lai’s wife, Teresa (left), and retired Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun arrive at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts to attend Hong Kong activist publisher Lai’s national security trial in Hong Kong on Wednesday, Nov. 20,...
  • Vietnam, with one of the highest abortion rates, leads UN initiative on premature births
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Senior fellow at the National Catholic Bioethics Center Joseph Meaney speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” CNA Staff, Nov 20, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA). “It’s a completely...
  • Pope Francis reads Ukrainian student’s moving testimony of faith at general audience
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Pope Francis greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience on Nov. 20, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 20, 2024 / 13:25 pm (CNA). “Through this pain, I am learning...
  • Vatican simplifies funeral rite for popes
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Before the wooden coffin is closed, Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Monsignor Diego Giovanni Ravelli, the Vatican’s lead master of ceremonies for papal liturgies, place a white veil over the late...
  • Church leaders will appeal Indian Supreme Court order for tax on salaries of clergy
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from CNA
    The Supreme Court of India. / Credit: Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Bangalore, India, Nov 20, 2024 / 12:25 pm (CNA). Catholic education officials and legal experts are vowing to appeal the Supreme Court of...
  • How will Trump impact abortion, gender, and migration policies in Latin America?
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from CNA
    Argentine President Javier Milei walks past President-elect Donald Trump as they attend the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. / Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images ACI Prensa...
  • Red Wednesday in the Land of the Martyrs 
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from CNA
    Memorial tree in Mayfouk, Lebanon, in remembrance of Christians killed in the Lebanese civil war. / Credit: Ambassador Alberto Fernández/EWTN News Washington D.C., Nov 20, 2024 / 10:35 am (CNA). Nov. 20 marks Red Wednesday, a growing...
  • Catholic NASA scientist delves into investigation of potential life on other planets
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from CNA
    null / Credit: Denis Belitsky/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Nov 20, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). The unresolved question of whether life exists on other planets continues to spark curiosity from the public and the interest of scientists — but...
  • Nearly half of 2,500 anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe were in France, report says
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from EWTN News - World Catholic News
    The historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, was ravaged by arson on the night of Sept. 2, 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of Father Sébastien Roussel Washington, D.C....
  • Persecuted Christian children remembered on Red Wednesday
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Christian Today
    Buildings are being floodlit red on Wednesday to remember millions of Christians around the world being persecuted for their faith.
  • ‘Hope Never Disappoints’ is Holy Father’s new book for 2025 Jubilee Year
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from CNA
    The book “Hope Never Disappoints” is based on interviews author Hernán Reyes Alcaide (pictured here) conducted with Pope Francis. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot CNA Staff, Nov 20, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The author of a new book...
  • Pope Francis announces 2025 canonizations for Carlo Acutis, Pier Giorgio Frassati
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Blessed Carlo Acutis (left) and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati / Credit: Diocese of Assisi/Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Nov 20, 2024 / 05:58 am (CNA). The surprise announcement came at the conclusion of the pope’s...
  • Called beyond qualification: how God's strength shines through human weakness
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Christian Today
    The question is not whether we are strong enough, skilled enough, or good enough, but whether we are willing to let Him shape us for His purposes.
  • Royal Mail's 2024 Christmas stamps capture snowy splendour of iconic UK cathedrals
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Christian Today
    This festive season, the Royal Mail's 2024 Christmas stamp collection features a series of evocative snowy scenes of iconic UK cathedrals.
  • One fatality, several YWAM staff injured in bus accident in Nigeria
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Christian Today
    A multi-vehicle accident near the coastal town of Badagry, 70 kilometres from Lagos, Nigeria turned fatal, claiming the life of a Youth With A Mission (YWAM) staff while several others were rushed to nearby hospitals with various injuries.
  • Daniel Ortega's regime expels the president of the Bishops' Conference from Nicaragua
    Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Christian Today
    Nicaraguan media in exile report that Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera, president of the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference, has been banished to Guatemala. He is the third bishop to be expelled by Daniel Ortega's regime in the past year.
  • Texas Supreme Court allows previously-delayed execution of Robert Roberson to proceed
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from CNA
    The Texas Supreme Court will allow the execution of Robert Roberson, who was convicted of the murder of his infant child, with the ruling coming after a legislative committee attempted in October 2024 to delay the capital sentence by...
  • New Jersey bishop says hundreds of diocesan donations have gone missing from drop box
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from CNA
    null / Credit: Biz Pic Baby/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 19, 2024 / 15:35 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, is missing a large batch of donations with parishioners urged to monitor bank accounts amid an investigation into the...
  • Pope Francis laicizes schismatic Argentine priest 
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from CNA
    null / Credit: natatravel/Shutterstock Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov 19, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA). “With a supreme and definitive decision,” Pope Francis expelled from the clerical state for the crime of schism Fernando María Cornet, an...
  • Brooklyn pastor removed after secretly loaning $2 million of parish funds to lawyer
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from CNA
    Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brooklyn. / Credit: Jim.henderson, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Nov 19, 2024 / 14:35 pm (CNA). A pastor in Brooklyn, New York, has been removed from his city parish after a...
  • Pope Francis conveys closeness to Ukraine in letter marking 1,000th day of war
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Pope Francis attends a Vatican screening of the 2022 documentary “Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” on Feb. 24, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Nov 19, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). In a letter sent to Archbishop Visvaldas...
  • Pro-life group asks Supreme Court to throw out abortion ‘buffer zone’ laws
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from CNA
    Sarah Richardson, a sidewalk counselor with Coalition Life in Carbondale, Illinois. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Thomas More Society St. Louis, Mo., Nov 19, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA). A St. Louis pro-life group has petitioned the U.S. Supreme...
  • Socialism is ‘an enemy of the cross,’ Spanish bishop says
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from EWTN News - World Catholic News
    Bishop José Ignacio Munilla was among the speakers featured at the 2024 Conference on Catholics and Public Life Nov. 15–17, 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of the Catholic Association of Propagandists (Advocates) Madrid, Spain, Nov 19, 2024 /...
  • In these dire times for the Church, Paul's attitude and example in 2 Timothy are inspirational
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Christian Today
    Paul's exhortation to Timothy is surely pressingly relevant to those called to proclaim the Christian message in every age and generation.
  • What is the Jerusalem Cross?
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from CNA
    Coat of arms of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher. / Credit: Mathieu Chaine/CC BY-SA 3.0 National Catholic Register, Nov 19, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Associated Press recently claimed that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be...
  • What does obedient leadership look like in the face of laws to kill babies?
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Christian Today
    What evil has God asked you to confront in your life? How is God asking you to stand for Him in your life? Like Elijah, are you doing it?
  • Why are we so far away from what we read about in Acts?
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Christian Today
    Despite once being a world leader in generosity, the UK has steadily declined in global generosity rankings over the past decade.
  • Why the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury may prove challenging
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Christian Today
    The deep divisions within the Church of England and the Anglican Communion over the issue of human sexuality mean that it will become very difficult, if not impossible, to find someone everyone can agree on.
  • America’s pro-life movement readies 2025 federal- and state-level policy efforts
    Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from CNA
    null / Credit: Orhan Cam/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 19, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pro-life advocates plan to push federal- and state-level legislative and policy reforms on abortion when the United States Congress and many...
  • Pope Francis’ claim that Israel action in Gaza could be ‘genocide’ draws criticism
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Pope Francis prays during the Synod on Synodality closing Mass on Oct. 27, 2024, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Nov 18, 2024 / 18:15 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ call for an investigation into...
  • 3 things to know about the 2 papal basilicas dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul in Rome
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    “Sts. Peter and Paul,” Altar of St. Catherine (1465), Schwabach, Germany. Artist unknown. / Credit: Public domain Vatican City, Nov 18, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA). Here are three things to know about the historical, architectural, and...
  • Brendan Carr, CUA Law graduate, tapped to lead Federal Communications Commission
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from CNA
    Before being named a commissioner, Brendan Carr was a legal adviser for the Federal Communications Commission and then served as its general counsel. / Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via...
  • Arizona Catholic parish fire being investigated as arson
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from CNA
    null / Credit: Noska Photo/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 18, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). Police in Arizona are investigating an October parish fire as an act of arson, with authorities seeking help identifying a suspect in the blaze amid...
  • Vatican approves liturgical adaptations for Indigenous communities in Mexico
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from CNA
    Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, bishop emeritus of San Cristóbal de las Casas in the Mexican state of Chiapas, expressed his hope that the approval of a series of liturgical adaptations for Indigenous communities in the Mexican state...
  • Nigerian Catholic religious sister wins $1.2 million Opus Prize
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from CNA
    Sister Francisca Ngozi Uti on Nov. 14, 2024, was named the 2024 Opus Prize laureate, which comes with a $1.2 million award recognizing transformative humanitarian work. / Credit: Santa Clara University ACI Africa, Nov 18, 2024 / 11:40 am...
  • Missouri abortion amendment: Close vote sparks hope, Catholic leader says
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from CNA
    A bridge over the Mississippi River near St. Louis. / Credit: Checubus/Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Nov 18, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). After a close but heartbreaking loss at the ballot box that saw Missouri voters choose to enshrine a right...
  • Extraordinary events save a priest's life after random stabbing
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from Christian Today
    "The love of Jesus" means "how could I not forgive her", says victim.
  • The little known story of England's first evangelical Queen
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from Christian Today
    The little known story of England's first evangelical QueenThe modern evangelical movement owes a great debt to England's first evangelical queen. This is the story ...
  • UPDATE: Trump picks several Catholics for Cabinet: Kennedy, Rubio, Stefanik, Ratcliffe, Duffy
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from CNA
    Left to right: John Ratcliffe, Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Image; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images; Jason Mendez/Getty Images Washington, D.C....
  • Calls for Archbishop of York's resignation over CofE safeguarding failures
    Monday, November 18, 2024 from Christian Today
    A dame who was sacked from the Church of England's now defunct Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) has called for the Archbishop of York to follow the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in stepping down.
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