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
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.
Today begins May, the month dedicated to our spiritual mother, the Virgin Mary
May 1, 2024 / 16:02 pmMay will always be a special month, the month that the Church dedicates to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and our spiritual mother.
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.”
The first Mexican-born martyr: a castaway friar who was crucified in Japan
Feb 5, 2024 / 15:40 pmOnly 25 when he was killed, San Felipe de Jesus — St. Philip of Jesus — is celebrated Feb. 5 for the witness he gave as a missionary.
St. Agatha, the early Church martyr who tradition says was visited by St. Peter
Feb 5, 2024 / 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.
St. Blaise: The bishop who lived in a cave, cured animals, and healed throat ailments
Feb 3, 2024 / 04:00 amSt. Blaise, celebrated on Feb. 3, was a bishop and martyr from Armenia who today is associated with the healing of throats.
The Presentation of the Lord: a symbol of the Messiah’s embrace
Feb 2, 2024 / 04:00 amOn this day we remember when Mary and Joseph carried the infant Jesus to the Temple to fulfill the law.
St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us that faith and reason go together
Jan 28, 2024 / 04:00 amSt. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, was deeply in love with God.
St. Angela Merici: the ‘little friend’ of St. Ursula
Jan 27, 2024 / 04:00 amEvery Jan. 27, the Church celebrates St. Angela Merici, foundress of the Order of St. Ursula, whose members are known as Ursulines.
From struggles with temper to path of charity, St. Francis de Sales is a model for us all
Jan 24, 2024 / 07:00 amOn Jan. 24, the Church celebrates the patron saint of journalists, writers, and the Catholic press: St. Francis de Sales, doctor of the Church.