Archive for December 28, 2021

Missionaries of Charity house, Calcutta, India.?w=200&h=150

By Kevin J. Jones

Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity seek swift fix after Indian government blocks foreign donations

Supporters of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity reacted with surprise and concern to the Indian government’s ruling that the organization... Read more

Bishop Carl Kemme of Wichita performs the absolution over the coffin of Father Emil Kapaun after his funeral Mass at Hartman Arena in Park City, Kan., Sept. 29, 2021.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Olivera

A year in review: The biggest stories from the Church in the US in 2021

It can be hard to believe any year could top 2020 in terms of news, but 2021 was a momentous... Read more

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The Christendom College Women’s Basketball team, with Mary Pennefather, third from left, voices opinions on women’s sports at the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13, 2026. | Credit: Madalaine Elhabbal/CNA

Supreme Court reviews transgender athlete bans

Martha Patricia Molina, a Nicaraguan lawyer and Catholic researcher, urges the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to “return your eyes to Nicaragua” at a Jan. 13, 2026, hearing. | Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNA

Nicaraguan researcher urges religious freedom commission to refocus attention on abuses

Bishop Raimo Goyarrola with a family in Helsinki | Credit: Courtesy of Bishop Raimo Goyarrola

First Catholic school in Finland: The dream of Helsinki’s only Catholic bishop

Scott Adams had previously announced his intention to convert to Christianity. | Credit: Art of Charm, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On his dying day, renowned cartoonist’s faith in Christ made public

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New York senator pushes for more church security after crimes, vandalism at Catholic parishes

Archbishop Hebda speaks to EWTN News in August 2025. | Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot

Archbishop Hebda calls for hope, healing as community suffers ‘heaviness’ after shooting

Angola is one of the African countries Pope Leo XIV plans to visit in what will be his first pastoral trip to the continent as Pontiff. | Credit: Vatican Media/Catholic Archdiocese of Luanda

Angola among African countries Pope Leo XIV to visit; dates being finalized

Bishop Stanislav Přibyl of Litoměřice celebrates Mass with Bishop Wolfgang Ipolt of Görlitz, Germany, and other clergy at the Basilica of Mary, Help of Christians in Filipov, Czech Republic, on Jan. 13, 2025, during the annual pilgrimage commemorating the 1866 healing of Magdalena Kade. | Credit: Lubomír Holý/Člověk a víra

Czech bishop declares Year of Reconciliation 80 years after World War II expulsions

St. Patrick Cathedral in the Diocese of Charlotte. | Credit: Diocese of Charlotte

Dozens of Charlotte priests query Vatican over bishop’s move to abolish altar rails, kneelers

Grand Master Fra’ John Dunlap addresses the diplomatic corps accredited to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta at the Magistral Villa on Rome’s Aventine Hill on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. | Credit: Order of Malta

Order of Malta seeks greater UN role as hospital in Bethlehem faces operational constraints

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