Archive for January 26, 2012

The Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, Minn. ?w=200&h=150

Minnesota governor rejects plan for stadium near basilica

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton does not want the Vikings' new football stadium to be built near the Basilica of Saint... Read more

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Spanish government seeks to add parental consent to abortion law

Spain’s Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz Gallardon, announced on Jan. 25 that the government will work to change the country’s... Read more

Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl at the 2012 March for Life in Washington, D.C.?w=200&h=150

Cardinal Wuerl thinks Church can win contraception fight

Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. believes that the Church can win its fight against the Obama administration’s contraception mandate... Read more

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By Michelle La Rosa

Fr. Lombardi: Vatican corruption charges ‘well beyond reality’

The official Vatican spokesman says an Italian television broadcast claiming to disclose financial corruption at the Vatican exaggerated the situation. Read more

The presentation of the new book on St. John of Avila in Rome?w=200&h=150

By Alan Holdren

Next Church doctor is model for evangelization

Today's world can learn a lot from St. John of Avila, according to those who have studied the life of... Read more

Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan speaks to the press at the November 2011 USCCB meeting?w=200&h=150

Archbishop Dolan says Obama administration 'treats pregnancy as disease'

Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, head of the U.S. bishops' conference, says the Obama administration has revoked the religious freedom of... Read more

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Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of Angola’s Archdiocese of Luanda.

Angola archdiocese announces monthly Eucharistic adoration ahead of Church’s 2025 Jubilee

A patient at the new Misky María Palliative Care Hospital located on the outskirts of Lima, Perú.

New palliative care hospital brings ‘sweetness of Mary’ to poorest in Peru

Professor Mouna Maroun is the first Arab to be elected as the rector of an Israeli university, the University of Haifa. Maroun belongs to the Arab minority in Israel, the Christian minority among Arabs, and the Maronite minority among Christians. She says she is proud of her religious affiliation and wears a golden crucifix around her neck. "My election is an important message that everything is possible in the Israeli academia," she told CNA.

First Arab Christian woman to lead Israel’s University of Haifa

Mother Marla Marie stands on the front porch of the sisters’ Mother of the Light convent in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

From the Washington Post to the Maronite convent: Meet Mother Marla Marie

Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024.

Columbia’s Catholic chaplain: Campus protests were pushed by ‘explicitly communist’ outsiders

President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit Father Greg Boyle on May 3, 2024.

Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit priest for work with youth

Martyred by the Nazis, Dutch St. Titus Brandsma was a journalist who gave his life so that the truths of the faith would not be silenced.

The prayer of a holy journalist before dying for the freedom of the Catholic press

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