Archive for March 11, 2024

An estimated 24,000 people participated in Eucharistic adoration at the SEEK24 conference in St. Louis on Jan. 3, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Jonah McKeown

What to expect at the 2024 Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis

The congress is the culmination of a multiyear “Eucharistic Revival” initiative of the U.S. Catholic bishops.  Read more

Suhail Shadi Abu Dawod with Father Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest of Gaza, on the seashore in Gaza last summer 2023. Romanelli, belongs to the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), a Catholic clerical religious institute founded in Argentina on March 25, 1984, which Abu Dawod has petitioned to join.?w=200&h=150

By Marinella Bandini

Gaza teen waits to follow vocation: ‘My faith is flourishing amidst the challenges of war’

Suhail Shadi Abu Dawod was planning to join the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) in Italy — then the... Read more

Pope Francis washes the feet of 12 young men and women, inmates at Casal del Marmo juvenile detention center on Rome’s outskirts, during a Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday, April 6, 2023.?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Vatican’s Venice Biennale pavilion leads visitors in Catholic tradition of visiting prisoners

Visitors will enter an active women’s prison on Venice’s Giudecca island, where inmates will play an active role in the... Read more

Haitian police officers deploy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 9, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Diego López Marina

Archbishop of Port-au-Prince: ‘There is real danger of civil war in Haiti’

Port-au-Prince Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor shared his perspective on the difficult situation facing his country and the pastoral work of... Read more

"Abortion is a crime disguised as a solution" and "The size of your body doesn't take away your rights" are among the signs held high by pro-life marchers in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, March 10, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

March for Life in Spain takes the mask off culture of death

“It’s time to unmask the lies, horrors, businesses, and ideologies that sustain the culture of death,” said the organizers of... Read more

A camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Renk, South Sudan.?w=200&h=150

By ACI Africa

South Sudan bishop: Our people ‘on brink of destitution, slowly perishing’

In a March 8 letter, Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala described the desperate situation of his people in South Sudan. Read more