Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023. / Credit: Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von Lachner CNA Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 13:57 pm (CNA). Th...
null / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2024 / 10:52 am (CNA). The Catholic bishops of England and Wales followed the Vatican’s lead in their April 24 statement “Intricately Woven by the...
One of the priests on “The Sacristy of the Vendée”show sparked a firestorm after quipping in February that he prayed that Pope Francis would “go to heaven as soon as possible.” / Credit...
St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. / Credit: Canva CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis will celebrate Mass in St. Mark’s Square this Sunday in Venice and then private...
Archbishop Luis Argüello and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. / Credit: Archdiocese of Valladolid; La Moncloa ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 23, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The Spanish bishops note...
Orvich said he wanted to share his experience with same sex attraction “so that the Lord might touch hearts and that people repent and try returning to a chaste life." / Credit: Fran Orvich ...
Edward Burne-Jones, “St. George Kills the Dragon,” 1866 / Credit: Public Domain Washington D.C., Apr 23, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). St. George defied an emperor and stared into the eyes of h...
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Participants in Italy's pro-life demonstration in Rome on May 21, 2022. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome, Italy, Apr 22, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA). The provision attached to a health care syst...
Father Nicéforo Obama from Equatorial Guinea was able to be trained as a priest thanks to the Pontifical Mission Societies. / Credit: OMP ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 21, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). �...
Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski of Krakow announced on April 14, 2024, the decision to begin the process of beatification and canonization of Helena Agnieszka Kmiec, a young lay missionary murder...
A bishop and a priest exchange the sign of peace during Mass. / Credit: Father Lawrence Lew, OP; photo courtesy of Martin Beek via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 18, 2024 / 07:...
Father Benedict Kiely, founder of Nasarean.org, speaks during a panel discussion on Day 2 of The National Conservatism Conference at the Claridge on April 17, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. / Credi...
Statue of St. Peter in front of St. Peter's Basilica. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 17, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). The World Meeting of Parish Priests for the Synod on Synodality...
1960. Varigotti (SV). Father Luigi Giussani with students during the Tower Ray. / Credit: Communion and Liberation Official Site Rome Newsroom, Apr 16, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA). Archbishop Mari...
Sachin Jose reaches more than 148,000 people with the Catholic faith with his digital apostolate on X (formerly Twitter). He works as a journalist and social media consultant. Sachin has been re...
The popular chocolate Ferrero Rocher actually honors Our Lady of Lourdes. / Canva Stock Images CNA Staff, Apr 16, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). “The success of Ferrero we owe to Our Lady of Lourd...
Pope Francis blesses an unborn baby during the Papal Foundation's annual pilgrimage in Rome, Friday, April 12, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Stampa, Apr 15, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA). The fa...
Before the march began, the president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, stressed that “life is a gift from God and as such it is an inalienable right of every huma...
Approximately 1,000 people have been working daily on the restoration of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, France. / Credit: Sumit Surai, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staf...
Jaroslaw Kaczynski (front, center), leader of the Law and Justice political party (PiS) in Poland, takes part in the voting on four draft projects on abortion rights at the Polish Parliament (SE...
German police cars (file image) / Mike Baumeister via Unsplah (CC0) CNA Newsroom, Apr 12, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office revealed that the suspects, betw...
Pope Francis meets with a group of 200 children studying catechism and in a relaxed manner answered some of their questions on April 11, 2024, at St. John Mary Vianney Parish in Borghesiana, Ita...
Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Pope Francis on St. Peter’s Square, May 21, 2014. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Apr 12, 2024 / 10:25 am (CNA). While speculation is again runnin...
On April 11, 2024, Bishop José Ornelas Carvalho Leiria-Fátima, Portugal, said that a “fundamental team” would be convened in order to determine the total amounts of compensation awarded to...
The consecration of Father Martin Chambers as the new bishop of Dunkeld, Scotland had been scheduled for April 27. / Credit: Diocese of Dunkeld/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 11, 2024 / 14...
null / Credit: Brian A Jackson / Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Apr 11, 2024 / 06:45 am (CNA). “I ask for forgiveness from the victims and deeply regret everything I have done,” the priest s...
null / Credit: Pixabay CNA Staff, Apr 10, 2024 / 10:50 am (CNA). In the advertisement, an abbess fills a ciborium with potato chips instead of Eucharistic hosts prior to Mass.
To mark its 10th anniversary, the Saint Pio Foundation in the United States on April 29, 2024, will release 10 never-before-seen photographs of Padre Pio. The foundation’s director, Luciano La...
A plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. / Credit: MichalPL via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) CNA Staff, Apr 9, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Catholic bishops in the European U...
Luis Argüello, archbishop of Valladolid and general secretary of the Spanish Episcopal Conference. / Credit: CEE ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 8, 2024 / 16:25 pm (CNA). Among the issues raised by A...
null / nito/Shutterstock. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 8, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The 15-year study, which was conducted by researchers at the Netherlands’ University of Groningen, track...
St. John Paul II (1920-2005). / Credit: Itto Ogami via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) National Catholic Register, Apr 7, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Pope John Paul II made teaching and spreading D...
“A retreat is a moment of prolonged personal encounter, without distractions, with God, and in God, with oneself," says Father Guillermo Serra. / Credit: Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 6...
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Cardinal Marc Ouellet takes part in the Pontifical Council for Culture's Plenary Assembly on Women's Cultures in Rome on Feb. 6, 2015. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA. CNA Newsroom, Apr 5, 2024 / 13:10 p...
Father Javier Sánchez, 60, from the Archdiocese of Zaragoza in Spain died April 4, 2024, a victim of burns suffered when his liturgical vestments caught fire from a candle during the Easter Vig...
null / Andrii Zastrozhnov/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 4, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Father Francisco “Patxi” Bronchalo said among the wounded he sees “children broken by very hard l...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I / President.gov.ua / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 4, 2024 / 10:15 am (CNA). “It is a scandal to celebrate separately the uniqu...
There is exponential growth in conversions of Muslims to Christianity in France. / Credit: Unsplash National Catholic Register, Apr 3, 2024 / 13:15 pm (CNA). The phenomenon is forcing dioces...
Father Matthieu Raffray. / Credit: @AbbeRaffray on X ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). The French government has initiated a series of legal measures against Father Matthieu Ra...
Bishop Xavier Novell Gomà, Bishop Emeritus of Solsona. / Credit: Conferencia Episcopal Española via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). After obtaining a ...
Critics of the hate speech bill worry that it could criminalize the speech of people such as author J.K. Rowling, who has said that "transgender women" are not actually women. / Credit: Daniel O...
A smoker in Leipzig, Germany. (Photo from 2018.) / Credit: Tobias Tullius / Unsplash (CC0)) CNA Newsroom, Apr 2, 2024 / 11:15 am (CNA). Germany legalized the recreational use of cannabis on ...
Jean’s journey into the Catholic Church was propelled by an earnest desire to align himself with the apostolic tradition, a lineage he felt was absent in his previous religious experiences. / ...
Pope Francis presides at the Vatican's Easter Vigil, Saturday, March 30, 2024 / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 30, 2024 / 17:22 pm (CNA). “This is the Pasch of Christ, the revelation...
Pope Francis speaks at the Vatican's Easter Vigil, March 30, 2024 / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 30, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). The Holy Father delivered the homily late in the evening a...
A monumental cross towers above the Valley of the Fallen complex. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA). A Spanish association has garnered more than 13...
The Brotherhood of the Holy Supper processes through Seville, Spain, on Holy Monday, March 25, 2024. / Credit: Joaquín Carmona Seville, Spain, Mar 27, 2024 / 18:15 pm (CNA). Holy Week in Se...
Catholics gather in Rome’s Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island on Holy Tuesday, March 26, 2024, for a prayer vigil honoring Christians who have been killed for their faith in recent ye...
Saint Josemaría Escrivá inspired and promoted UNIV, an international meeting of young university students seeking to deepen their faith. Since 1968, thousands of students travel to Rome every ...
Plymouth Bishop-elect Christopher Whitehead's planned installation was cancelled in February. / Credit: © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk|Flickr|CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED CNA Staff, Mar 25, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CN...