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St. Patrick and corned beef.

UPDATE: Where are Catholics allowed to eat corned beef on St. Patrick’s Day this Lent?

Mar 16, 2023

By CNA Staff

Which dioceses are offering a dispensation from the requirement to abstain from meat? Read more

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No, Pope Francis didn’t really hint that the requirement for priestly celibacy will be lifted

Mar 17, 2023

By Father Thomas Petri, O.P.

Secular media outlets and even some Catholic news organizations immediately jumped to the conclusion that the pope is open to... Read more

The image of the Virgin of Ireland in the Cathedral of Gyor, Hungary.

The image of the Virgin Mary that wept tears of blood on St. Patrick’s Day

Mar 17, 2023

By Walter Sanchez Silva

On March 17, 1697, an image of the Virgin Mary known as the Weeping Irish Madonna shed tears of blood... Read more

Pope Francis at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on March 15, 2023

Pope Francis: A Christian life based on achieving higher positions is ‘pure paganism’

Mar 15, 2023

By Hannah Brockhaus

“When you conceive of the Christian life as an advancement, that the one above commands others ... that is not... Read more

Beer.

These 17th-century monks did a beer fast for Lent

Mar 18, 2023

By Matt Hadro

With the Lenten season underway, Catholics are immersing themselves in 40 days of abstaining from sweets, technology, alcohol, and other... Read more

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Here’s why a popular canon law website will have to remove much of its content

Mar 16, 2023

By Tyler Arnold

Father Paul Hedman created the website CanonLaw.Ninja to provide users with a searchable, up-to-date translation of the Code of Canon... Read more

A detail from Joseph with the Child and the Flowering Rod, by Alonso Miguel de Tovar (1678–1752). Public Domain.

How a forgotten nun’s visions shed ‘new light’ on the life of St. Joseph

Mar 19, 2023

By Courtney Mares

Why a little-known book by an 18th-century visionary could be inspiring reading on this feast of St. Joseph. Read more

Delegates at the fifth assembly of the German Synodal Way, meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 11, 2023, applaud after the he passage of a text calling for changes to the German Church's approach to gender identity.

German bishops announce plans to bless same-sex unions, allow laypeople to baptize and preach at Mass

Mar 17, 2023

By AC Wimmer

Following the conclusion of the German Synodal Way, several bishops have announced plans to put into practice resolutions passed by... Read more

A statue of the Virgin Mary on the grounds of the 15th-century Quin Abbey in County Clare, Ireland.

Signs of hope and renewal amid the dramatic decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland

Mar 17, 2023

By Courtney Mares

Father Owen Gorman remembers when Masses in Ireland were so crowded on Sundays that people had to sit on the... Read more

Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, France.

French church vandalized with satanic and anarchist graffiti

Mar 18, 2023

By Diego Lopez Marina

The walls of Sacred Heart Church, located in Bordeaux were vandalized with satanic graffiti and communist and anarchist symbols March... Read more

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller (left) and American Cardinal Raymond Burke.

Cardinals Müller, Burke rebuke German bishops over same-sex union blessings

Mar 17, 2023

By Tyler Arnold

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller and American Cardinal Raymond Burke rebuked the German bishops for approving Church blessings of same-sex unions. Read more

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher.

Vatican-China deal ‘not the best deal possible,’ top Holy See diplomat says

Mar 14, 2023

By Courtney Mares

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher said that negotiations are underway to make the the Vatican-China deal “work better.” Read more

Palazzo della Rovere, also called Palazzo dei Penitenzieri.

Historic building near Vatican to become Four Seasons hotel

Mar 14, 2023

By Hannah Brockhaus

A Catholic order of knighthood has signed a leasing agreement that will allow a Four Seasons hotel to manage part... Read more

Young people at Holy Family Mission in County Waterford, Ireland.

Catholic gap year program in Ireland prepares young people for lifelong mission

Mar 15, 2023

By Courtney Mares

A new gap year program gives young people the opportunity to spend one year living in Ireland in an intentional... Read more

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, NY.

Facing hundreds of sex abuse lawsuits, Albany Diocese to declare bankruptcy

Mar 16, 2023

By Kevin J. Jones

The diocese has been named in more than 400 lawsuits filed from August 2019 to August 2021 under the Child... Read more

There was a candlelit path to the altar holding the Eucharist during adoration in St. Peter's Square on March 14, 2023.

PHOTOS: Nighttime eucharistic adoration in St. Peter’s Square

Mar 15, 2023

By Hannah Brockhaus

The Vatican held its first monthly eucharistic adoration in the area in front of St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday night. Read more

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Legionaries of Christ to ordain 32 new priests in 2023

Mar 19, 2023

By Ana Paula Morales

The soon-to-be new priests come from Germany, Colombia, Chile, South Korea, Canada, Brazil, El Salvador, Spain, the United States, Italy,... Read more

Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville delivers the St. Thomas Day Lecture at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paul, Calif., Jan. 28, 2019. Photo courtesy of TAC.

U.S. Bishop Daniel Flores to help prepare Synod on Synodality assembly

Mar 15, 2023

By Hannah Brockhaus

The first of two nearly monthlong Vatican assemblies for the synod will be in October. Read more

Triplets María Gorete dos Santos, María de Lourdes dos Santos, and María Aparecida dos Santos, 57, are all nuns belonging to the Franciscan Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Called by God from childhood, triplets from Brazil belong to the same religious order

Mar 16, 2023

By CNA Staff

María Gorete dos Santos, María de Lourdes dos Santos, and María Aparecida dos Santos, 57, belong to the Franciscan Congregation... Read more

Sister María del Carmen, a Mexican Combonian missionary who served in Sudan.

Mexican religious sister tells how Christians live in Sudan, a Muslim-majority country

Mar 14, 2023

By Ana Paula Morales

Sister María del Carmen Galicia stressed that “peaceful coexistence” is possible between the followers of Islam and Christianity. Read more