Archive for April 18, 2024

Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako presides over the dedication ceremony of the altar of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Mosul, Iraq. April 5, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Zoe Romanowsky

As new altar is consecrated at destroyed Iraq church, former parishioner recalls ‘wonderful days’

Georgena Habbaba says her eyes filled with tears to see her childhood parish and school in Mosul, Iraq, reconstructed and... Read more

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By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Rite of peace is not just a greeting or friendly gesture, nun explains

The sign of peace is meant to express “the sincere desire to be reconciled among ourselves, to overcome all divisions... Read more

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By Tyler Arnold

House Republicans call for NCAA ban on biological men in women’s sports

The lawmakers penned a letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker that asks him to limit participation in women-only sports to... Read more

Cardinal Wilton Gregory speaks at an interview in Rome on April 11, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Cardinal Gregory recalls time when Black Catholics could not study in U.S. seminaries

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, received this year’s Rector’s Award at an April 11 banquet at the Pontifical... Read more

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By Daniel Payne

Michigan priest resigns amid dispute over school appearance by ‘openly gay’ author 

The Sagninaw priest has been at the center of controversy since last month after area author Dominic Thrasher made an... Read more

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks during the signing of the ELVIS Act to Protect Voice & Likeness in Age of AI event at Robert’s Western World on March 21, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Tennessee names first English-language Bible translation in U.S. as official state book

Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, signed a bill on Tuesday that names the Aitken Bible and nine other texts as... Read more

A member of New South Wales Forensic Police is seen at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley, Australia, on April 16, 2024. Hundreds clashed with police in western Sydney on April 15 after Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed at the altar. New South Wales police have declared the attack a terror event. Police apprehended a 16-year-old in connection with the attack.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

‘I forgive whoever has done this’: Australian bishop who survived stabbing speaks out

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, who was attacked at an Australian church earlier this week, told his attacker: “You’re my son,... Read more

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By Peter Pinedo

Planned Parenthood reports record number of abortions in latest annual report

Released on Tuesday, the 2022-2023 report shows that Planned Parenthood performed 392,715 abortions between Oct. 1, 2021, and Sept. 30,... Read more

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By Walter Sánchez Silva

Ex-Jesuit, alleged abuser Rupnik listed as consultant in 2024 Pontifical Yearbook

The information appears on page 1346 of the yearbook with the list of consultants of the Dicastery for Divine Worship... Read more

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By Tyler Arnold

Scotland pauses sex-change and puberty-blocker drugs for children

The announcement effectively ends the practice of providing sex-change drugs and hormone medications to children in Scotland. Read more

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A patient at the new Misky María Palliative Care Hospital located on the outskirts of Lima, Perú.

New palliative care hospital brings ‘sweetness of Mary’ to poorest in Peru

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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