ACI Prensa
ACI Prensa is the Catholic News Agency's sister agency, which was founded in Lima, Peru, in 1980 by Fr. Adalbert Marie Mohm (†1986). In 1997, ACI Prensa launched the website www.aciprensa.com, which is the largest and most visited online source of Catholic news in Spanish. In 2014, Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) acquired Catholic News Agency and ACI Prensa. Since the merger, CNA and ACI Prensa have expanded their distribution platform. Now it is a service of EWTN News Inc.
Articles by ACI Prensa
Today begins May, the month dedicated to the Virgin Mary
May 1, 2025 / 14:30 pmThe Catholic Church dedicates the entire month of May to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and spiritual mother of all.
St. Agatha, the early Church martyr who tradition says was visited by St. Peter
Feb 5, 2025 / 04:00 amAgatha was ruthlessly tortured and martyred under the Roman Emperor Decius in the third century and credited after her death with saving her home town of Catania.
The little-known story of when the Masons tried to kill Don Bosco
Jan 31, 2025 / 04:00 amHistory notes how much the Freemasons hated St. John Bosco — whose feast the Church celebrates Jan. 31 — but less is known about their attempts to kill him.
How St. Francis de Sales overcame his temper to become a saint of kindness
Jan 24, 2025 / 04:00 amOn Jan. 24, the Church celebrates the patron saint of journalists, writers, and the Catholic press: St. Francis de Sales, doctor of the Church.
Here are Pope Francis’ prayer intentions for 2025
Dec 31, 2024 / 06:00 amThe pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network has released the Holy Father’s list of prayer intentions for the year 2025.
Archdiocese of Denver reacts to expulsion of 10 members of the Sodality of Christian Life
Sep 28, 2024 / 21:37 pmThe Peruvian Episcopal Conference announced that on Sept. 25 Pope Francis ordered the Sodality of Christian Life to expel 10 of its members.
Aug. 22 marks International Day of Victims of Religious Persecution
Aug 22, 2024 / 18:30 pmEvery Aug. 22 the International Day of Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief is commemorated.
Venezuelan cardinals warn Maduro government may be fabricating election tally sheets
Aug 7, 2024 / 07:00 amThe cardinals poined out that there are indications that the Maduro government may be “fabricating” election tallies to supposedly prove Maduro won.
12 keys to using the brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Jul 16, 2024 / 04:00 amThe Blessed Mother is said to have given the scapular to St. Simon Stock on July 16, 1251.
Opus Dei founder St. Josemaría Escrivá: You can be a saint doing your ordinary job
Jun 26, 2024 / 17:50 pmToday the Catholic Church honors St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (1902–1975), Spanish priest, founder of Opus Dei, and author of “The Way.”
Seeing the Eucharist through the eyes of 10 saints
Jun 1, 2024 / 10:20 amMany saints have encouraged Catholics to prayerfully participate in the holy sacrifice of the Mass and the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
5 reasons to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Apr 7, 2024 / 10:10 amThe Divine Mercy Chaplet is a pious practice revealed to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska by Jesus himself that has spread throughout the world.
Why the Catholic Church celebrates Easter Monday under the title ‘Monday of the Angel’
Apr 1, 2024 / 05:00 amIn many countries in Europe and South America, this day, also known as “Little Easter,” is a national holiday.
130,000 oppose leftist government’s attempt to change meaning of Spain civil war monument
Mar 28, 2024 / 10:30 amA Spanish association has garnered more than 130,000 signatures on a petition calling for the Madrid government to protect the Valley of the Fallen.
Catholic chapel where two men celebrated ‘marriage’ now subject to deconsecration
Feb 28, 2024 / 18:28 pmThe private Catholic chapel where two Spanish men celebrated their civil “marriage” last weekend is subject to “canonical effects” and deconsecration.
St. Peter Damian, the driving force behind the reform of the Church 1,000 years ago
Feb 21, 2024 / 04:00 amThis doctor of the Church was simple, firm, and honest in the face of error.
Francisco and Jacinta: brother and sister saints who were seers at Fatima
Feb 20, 2024 / 04:00 amOn Feb. 20, the Church celebrates the lives of two children, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the seers of the Fatima apparitions canonized in 2017.
10 ways to renew your life in Christ this Lent
Feb 11, 2024 / 07:00 amConsider these tried-and-true ways of entering into Lent this year.
Survivor of human trafficking St. Josephine Bakhita discovered God’s infinite love
Feb 8, 2024 / 11:15 amOn the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, we honor the Sudanese-Italian saint Josephine Bakhita.
The remarkable life and papacy of Blessed Pope Pius IX
Feb 7, 2024 / 10:30 amHe convened Vatican Council I, proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and declared St. Joseph “Patron of the Church.”