Archive for January 24, 2015

Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement. ?w=200&h=150

Beatification cause opened for founder of Focolare movement

Bishop Rafaello Martinelli of Frascati, Italy, has announced that the beatification cause will be opened for the founder of the... Read more

Archbishop Giovanni Becciu, substitute of the Secretariat of State, speaks with journalists aboard the papal flight to Colombo, Jan. 12, 2015. ?w=200&h=150

Pope Francis surprised by misunderstanding of his words on family

Pope Francis was surprised that his words on responsible parenthood were not widely taken in the sense that he intended... Read more

Cardinals pray together at the most recent consistory, held Feb. 22, 2014. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

Worldliness 'stuns more than grappa on a fast,' Pope tells new cardinals

In a letter to the 20 bishops who will be elevated to the cardinalate next month, Pope Francis said that... Read more

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By Elise Harris

Want Christian unity? Deepen your own conversion, Pope says

Pope Francis told a group of religious men and women that they are the forerunners in working towards Christian unity,... Read more

915 crosses placed in front of the Capitol to represent the 915 unborn babies aborted by Planned Parenthood every day. Photo Courtesy of Amanda Lord/SFLA.?w=200&h=150

House stalls on one pro-life bill, passes another

On the 41st anniversary of the legalization of abortion in the U.S., the House passed a ban on federal funding... Read more

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Pope Francis greets the crowd gathered at St. Peter's Square on May 5, 2024.

Pope Francis: Let us thank the Lord for our friends

The "Holy Fire" is passed from inside Christ's tomb to pilgrims gathered inside the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jersusalem on May 4, 2024, for the annual Orthodox Christian ceremony, held on the day before Easter, according to the Julian calendar.

‘Holy Fire’ ceremony at Jesus’ tomb marks beginning of Orthodox Easter celebrations

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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