Archive for August 5, 2019

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI met Aug 1 with Msgr Livio Melina of the JPII Institute. ?w=200&h=150

Amid JPII Institute controversy, Benedict XVI meets with recently dismissed professor

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI met last week with a recently dismissed professor of moral theology at Rome’s Pontifical John Paul... Read more

Cincinnati auxiliary Bishop Joseph Binzer.?w=200&h=150

By Ed Condon

Auxiliary bishop did not disclose Cincinnati priest accusations

An auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and member of the USCCB committee on child protection, is facing accusations... Read more

Rose petals fall in St. Mary Major Basilica Aug. 5, 2017 to commemorate the "miracle of the snow." ?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

White roses fall inside Roman basilica to mark 4th century Marian miracle

White rose petals fell from the ceiling of St. Mary Major Basilica Monday, as Romans celebrated the anniversary of a... Read more

The flag of Vietnam. ?w=200&h=150

Funeral of Catholic lawyer disrupted by police in Vietnam

The funeral of Therese Tran Thi Ly Hoa, a Catholic lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City, was interrupted last week... Read more

Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Carl Anderson speaks with CNA in Rome, June 26, 2014. ?w=200&h=150

By Matt Hadro

Knights of Columbus donated over $185 million to charity in 2018

Ahead of its annual convention this week, the Knights of Columbus announced August 1 that it donated more than $185... Read more

St. Oswald's Church in Liverpool. ?w=200&h=150

Catholic church vandalized in Liverpool

Merseyside Police are investigating the vandalization of St. Oswald's, a church in inner city Liverpool that had windows smashed and... Read more

The Maine State House in Augusta. ?w=200&h=150

By Christine Rousselle

Maine's pro-life movement 're-vitalized' to oppose abortion, assisted suicide laws

A pair of petition campaigns for a people’s veto referendum vote have kicked off in Maine with the support of... Read more

Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School. Courtesy photo.?w=200&h=150

Indianapolis Jesuit high school makes Vatican appeal of disciplinary measures

A Jesuit-sponsored high school in Indiana has asked the Vatican to overturn Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson’s decision to revoke the... Read more

Syrian refugee. ?w=200&h=150

By Matt Hadro

Bipartisan senators urge Trump administration to keep refugee program

A bipartisan group of 18 senators is urging the Trump administration not to shut down refugee admissions, but rather to... Read more

Protests have continued in Hong Kong since June 9th, as demonstrators speak out against an extradition proposal. ?w=200&h=150

Hong Kong university students protest extradition proposal

Catholics university students in Hong Kong are joining their voices to the widespread protests against a now-suspended proposal to permit... Read more

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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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Chicago priest blesses same-sex ‘spouses,’ says Fiducia Supplicans allows it

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took possession of his titular church, St. Onuphrius, in Rome on May 1, 2024.

Cardinal Pizzaballa: Peace in Holy Land built on dialogue, action

The spiritual shepherd of the Church in Singapore is Cardinal William Goh, archbishop since early 2013 and a cardinal since 2022.

Cardinal Goh of Singapore: ‘Deep encounter with Jesus’ is key to passing on the faith

Oviedo Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes accused the government of focusing "in a biased and manipulative way on the problem of pedophilia as something attributable only to the Catholic Church."

Spanish archbishop slams government’s obsession with the Catholic Church

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Florida issues emergency rules to combat Biden abortion ‘misinformation’ 

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