Archive for December 30, 2024

A wooden crucifix.?w=200&h=150

By AC Wimmer

13 Catholic missionaries and pastoral workers reportedly killed worldwide in 2024

The Vatican’s missionary agency documented that five pastoral workers were killed in Africa, five in America, and two priests died... Read more

Catholic Land Movement co-founders Andrew Ewell (top left) and Michael Guidice (top right), pictured here on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica.?w=200&h=150

By Martin Barillas

In Vatican meetings, Catholic Land Movement proclaims faith, family, and farming

Michael Guidice and Andrew Ewell founded Catholic Land Movement, an initiative that traces its lineage to the Catholic Land Associations... Read more

Blessing of a plane at Dublin Airport.?w=200&h=150

By Patrick J. Passmore

Dublin Airport aircraft blessing: New chaplain continues 77-year Irish Catholic custom

The ceremony, which began in 1947 with a single Aer Lingus plane, adapted to modern times by moving from its... Read more

Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By AC Wimmer

Pope Francis remembers Jimmy Carter’s ‘firm commitment’ to peace, reconciliation

The former president died on Dec. 29 at age 100 after entering hospice care in February 2023. Read more

Father Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and raping a teenage boy in the 1970s, heading off a long-delayed trial that launched with an indictment last year. ?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Louisiana priest Lawrence Hecker dies in prison after life sentence over rape of teenager

Lawrence Hecker was indicted in September 2023 on felony charges related to allegations that he raped an underage teenage boy... Read more

Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

UPDATE: Oakland Diocese denies it used diocesan fund to hide money from abuse victims

The filing claims the diocese “perpetrated a fraudulent scheme to funnel substantial assets away from what would soon become its... Read more

“What we have to aspire to is to be saints,” the relatives of the late Belgian King Baudouin recall him urging.?w=200&h=150

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Relatives of Belgian King Baudouin: ‘His whole life was a witness to the living Christ’

Relatives say if King Baudouin were to be recognized as a saint, they would want for him to be an... Read more

The entry of the cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29, 2024, marks the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land. The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, crossed the threshold of the basilica carrying the jubilee cross accompanied by Archbishop Moussa Hage, Maronite archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land (on his right), and Archbishop Youssef Matta, Greek Catholic (Melkite) archbishop of Acre, Haifa, Nazareth, and Galilee (on his left).?w=200&h=150

By Marinella Bandini

PHOTOS: Cardinal Pizzaballa opens 2025 Jubilee Year in Holy Land

The entry of the jubilee cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29 marked the opening... Read more

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at Massachusetts’ Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Judge says Wisconsin trial against McCarrick will remain suspended until his death

The criminal case against McCarrick in Wisconsin was suspended in January after a psychologist hired by the court found that... Read more

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By Jonah McKeown

Homelessness rose 18% in the past year, HUD report shows

HUD’s figure represents an increase of 118,376 people and an 18% jump from the number of homeless people counted in... Read more

A student workshop at The College of St. Joseph the Worker.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

West Virginia awards Catholic ‘trade college’ $5 million grant for expansion

St. Joseph the Worker, which is based in Steubenville, Ohio, teaches construction trades to students while providing a bachelor’s degree... Read more

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Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest.

Former Maronite priest still presenting himself as a cleric, Denver Archdiocese warns

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Leo XIV eliminates commission for donations to Holy See created by Pope Francis

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1 in 4 post-abortive women regret abortion decades later, study finds

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Catholic bishops back Trump’s removal of gender ideology in refugee forms

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol.

Dozens of Congress members urge court to allow Ten Commandments display in public schools

Bishop Michael Fisher outside the meeting hall during the 2019 USCCB General Assembly, June 12, 2019.

Buffalo bishop will allow faithful to meet at parishes to oppose closures, mergers

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’

Pope Francis receives the bishops of England and Wales for their ad limina visit at the Vatican, Sept. 28, 2018.

Did leak in England suggest broader shift in Vatican policy on the Latin Mass?

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Archbishop Broglio: Drug cartels must be stopped, but not with ‘violence outside the law’

Poster for the St. John of the Cross 2026 Jubilee.

Discalced Carmelites prepare to celebrate jubilee year of St. John of the Cross

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