Archive for October 21, 2022

Adrián Martínez Cádiz, a news correspondent for EWTN, posted a summons he received from Cuba's Ministry of the Interior on his Facebook account Oct. 19, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Diego López Marina

EWTN correspondent in Cuba asks for prayers ahead of interrogation

Adrián Martínez Cádiz, who only started working with EWTN on Oct. 12, has asked his supporters to pray Psalm 91... Read more

Pope Francis greeting pilgrims on St. Peter's Square, Oct. 19, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Justyna Galant

Pope Francis welcomes opening of Jewish-Catholic center at Polish university

Pope Francis has welcomed the establishment of a Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations in Poland and called for a deepening appreciation... Read more

Pope emeritus Benedict XVI.?w=200&h=150

By AC Wimmer,Shannon Mullen

Benedict XVI reflects on Vatican II in new letter

The letter provides fresh observations from one of the few remaining theologians to have personally participated in Vatican II, which... Read more

Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks at an EWTN dinner in Frascati, Italy, Oct. 19, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Cardinal Parolin to EWTN: Truth must be ‘fearlessly upheld’

The Vatican’s Secretary of State told employees and collaborators of EWTN this week that the truth must be “fearlessly upheld”... Read more

Citizen protests against the Cuban regime in Nuevitas, Camagüey, August 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Eduardo Berdejo

Cuba threatens citizens to keep them from joining demonstrations

Eduardo Cardet, coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement, charged that the residents of Velasco, a town in the Cuban province... Read more

The beatification of Pauline Jaricot in Lyon, France, on May 22, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Andrea Gagliarducci

World Mission Day 2022: Key figures and notable anniversaries

Figures published on the occasion of this year’s World Mission Sunday — this year celebrated on Oct. 23 — are... Read more

Roberto Dell’Oro is the director of the Bioethics Institute and a professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.?w=200&h=150

By Kevin J. Jones

Another Pontifical Academy for Life member criticizes overturning Roe v. Wade

Bioethicist Roberto Dell’Oro argues that the Dobbs decision violates women’s “autonomy.” Read more

Migrants waiting to cross the Gulf of Urabá to start the route through the Darién jungle.?w=200&h=150

By CNA Staff

Church wants migrants to be aware of dangers of route through Panama’s Darien jungle

Passing through the Darién jungle in Panama as the first stage of the route to reach the United States continues... Read more

Communion Wafers.?w=200&h=150

By ACI Prensa

Tabernacle desecrated, consecrated hosts stolen from Costa Rica church 

In the early hours of the morning, caretakers of the St. Rose of Lima Parish, Pocosol, noticed that sound equipment,... Read more

Adrián Martínez Cádiz, EWTN correspondent?w=200&h=150

By CNA Staff

Cuban dictatorship fines EWTN correspondent and threatens him during interrogation

On Friday, the police of the dictatorship in Cuba interrogated Adrián Martínez Cádiz, EWTN correspondent in Havana, and later fined... Read more

An embryo, between 9-10 weeks of pregnancy?w=200&h=150

By Edie Heipel

The Guardian is wrong: this is what a 9-week old unborn baby looks like  

An article published this week by The Guardian that purports to show that an unborn child “is not visible” until... Read more

Sister Marie-Sylvie Kavuke Vakatsuraki, who was killed in Maboya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Oct. 19, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Kevin J. Jones

Islamist rebels kill nun, six others at Catholic hospital in DR Congo

A Catholic nun serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was among the seven people killed Wednesday evening when... Read more