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Michael Phelps of Good Counsel Homes prays the rosary with others as they pass Trinity Church in the shadow of the Freedom Tower in Lower Manhattan on March 25, 2023. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Mar 27, 2023 / 17:05 pm (CNA). Pro-abortion ...

Eucharistic adoration at the SLS18 conference in Chicago. / FOCUS. Denver, Colo., Mar 27, 2023 / 16:23 pm (CNA). A statewide New York Eucharistic Congress will take place Oct. 20-22 at the shrine that marks the martyrdom site of three North American marty...

null / Sidney de Almeida / Shutterstock Washington D.C., Mar 26, 2023 / 11:20 am (CNA). A local Connecticut television station is reporting that the Archdiocese of Hartford is investigating a possible Eucharistic miracle that may have taken place during t...

Bishop Franz Josef Bode of the Diocese of Osnabrck served as vice president of the German bishops' conference from 2017 to 2023. / Courtesy of Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von Lachner CNA Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 08:56 am (CNA). Pope Francis accepted the ...

Pope Francis speaks at the general audience in Vatican City's Paul VI Hall on Feb. 22, 2023. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA). Pope Francis permanently decreed Saturday an updated version of Vos estis lux mundi , his landma...

A statue of St. Michael the Archangel is one of several opportunities for outdoor veneration at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe in Orlando near the major theme parks. / Credit: KEVIN SCHWEERS | CATHOLIC HERALD Orlando, F...

A Notre Dame series titled "Reproductive Justice: Scholarship for Solidarity and Social Change" held an event titled "Trans Care + Abortion Care: Intersections and Questions" on Zoom on March 20, 2023, and drew an audience of about 105 vie...

Pope Francis prays at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal on May 12, 2017. / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Mar 22, 2023 / 06:40 am (CNA). Pope Francis has invited Catholics to annually renew an act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mar...

Pope Francis greets pilgrims at the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on March 22, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Mar 22, 2023 / 05:20 am (CNA). To effectively witness to the Gospel, Christians need to be consistent in what the...

Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, France. / Credit: Olivier432 - Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). The walls of Sacred Heart Church, located in downtown Bordeaux, France, were vandalized with satanic g...

The image of the Virgin of Ireland in the Cathedral of Gyor, Hungary. / Credit: Diocese of Gyor ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 17, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). On March 17, 1697, on the feast day of St. Patrick and in the same year penal laws were enacted in Ireland ban...

German Cardinal Gerhard Mller (left) and American Cardinal Raymond Burke. / Credit: Daniel Ibaez/CNA Washington D.C., Mar 17, 2023 / 13:09 pm (CNA). A synod of German bishops overwhelmingly approved Church blessings of same-sex unions and unions between d...

Pope Francis heard confessions at a parish in Rome on Friday, March 17, 2023, and encouraged people to remember that God "holds out his hand and lifts us up whenever we realize that we are 'hitting rock bottom.'" / Credit: Daniel Ibaez/CNA...

null / Credit: P. Cristian Gutirrez, LC / Cathopic Washington D.C., Mar 17, 2023 / 09:45 am (CNA). On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his election to the See of Peter, Pope Francis sat down with Infobae — a news agency from Argentina —...

Young Salesians in Syria. / Credit: Salesian ANS ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 16, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA). March 15 marked the 12th year of civil war in Syria, where bombs, poverty, and earthquakes have destroyed the country. Nevertheless, the Salesians — th...

null / Credit: Cathopic / Moiss Becerra ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 16, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Spanish seminaries continue to suffer a downward trend in enrollment. According to official data from the Spanish Bishops' Conference, in the 2022-2023 academic y...

null / Credit: Alex Verrone/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Mar 16, 2023 / 16:35 pm (CNA). A popular canon law website, CanonLaw.Ninja , is removing much of its content by Friday, March 17, to comply with a copyright complaint, which will leave the website ...

Migrants, mostly of Venezuelan origin, attempt to forcibly cross into the United States at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on March 12, 2023. / Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images Washington D.C...

Father Sean Gough, a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, England, faced criminal charges for praying for free speech outside an abortion clinic after business hours in violation of a strict buffer zone law in the English city of Birmingham. ...

Fire in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Chapel belonging to St. Francis of Assisi Parish in the village of Selva Oscura, Chile, March 13, 2023. / Credit: Bishopric of Temuco CNA Newsroom, Mar 15, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA). The Catholic community of the Diocese of T...

Plan B. / Mike Mozart via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). Washington D.C., Mar 15, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA). Miami University's student government association has plans to install a "Plan B" emergency contraception vending machine on its Oxford, Ohio, campus...

Ruins after a militia attack in Benue state, Nigeria, during the last week of February 2023. / Credit: Courtesy of Michael Burton/Ignition633.org Washington D.C., Mar 15, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA). The controversial presidential election on Feb. 25 still domi...

Young people at Holy Family Mission in Counter Waterford, Ireland. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA CNA Staff, Mar 15, 2023 / 13:42 pm (CNA). A new gap year program gives young people the opportunity to spend one year living in Ireland in an intentional Catho...

null / Credit: Cherries/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Mar 15, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA). A group of Jewish parents filed a lawsuit Monday against the California Department of Education, calling for the state to provide religious schools with equal access to s...

There was a candlelit path to the altar holding the Eucharist during adoration in St. Peter's Square on March 14, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Mar 15, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). The Vatican held its first monthly eucharistic adoration in the ar...

Abortion Pill Reversal seeks to counter the effects of the first progesterone-blocking abortion pill, providing an opportunity to save the unborn child. / Shutterstock Denver, Colo., Mar 15, 2023 / 08:25 am (CNA). A Texas man has filed a wrongful death la...

null / ivanko80/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Mar 13, 2023 / 14:50 pm (CNA). The first hearing in what could be the most consequential abortion case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade is set for this Wednesday, March 15. The Alliance for Hippocratic Med...

Cardinal Michael Czerny. / Pablo Esparza/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Mar 13, 2023 / 14:22 pm (CNA). The cardinal who is seen as Pope Francis' point man on the environment said in an address at Gonzaga University last week that universities, especially Catholi...

Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter's Square, Oct. 5, 2016. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 13, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA). Today marks the 10th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis as the 265th successor of St. Pet...

Police have released images from a surveillance camera of a suspect they say vandalized Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Gales Ferry, Connecticut, on March 11, 2023. / Ledyard Police Department Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 13, 2023 / 11:38 am (CNA...

Actor Rainn Wilson on Oct. 6, 2022, in Santa Monica, California. / Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 13, 2023 / 10:50 am (CNA). Actor Rainn Wilson, best known for his role as Dwight in the hit TV series "The Office,&#...

Pope Francis greets pilgrims from the popemobile in St. Peter's Square on March 8, 2023. / Daniel Ibez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 13, 2023 / 10:20 am (CNA). Pope Francis marked his 10th anniversary as pope Monday with a private Mass with cardinals and an ...

EWTN CEO Michael P. Warsaw delivers the keynote address at conclusion of "Journalism in a Post-Truth World," a conference held March 10-11, 2023, at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., co-sponsored by EWTN News and Franciscan University o...

Pope Francis at his weekly Wednesday audience in St. Peter's Square June 26, 2019. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA. St. Louis, Mo., Mar 13, 2023 / 03:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis was elected to the papacy 10 years ago, on March 13, 2013. How has the worldwide Cathol...

Pope Francis at his general audience in Paul VI Hall on Feb. 15, 2023. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 12, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis asked for prayers as he spoke about the future of the Church and his pontificate so far in an interview publi...

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. / Jonathan Liedl/National Catho...

Feminist groups attacked the metropolitan cathedral in Mexico on March 8, 2023. / Credit: Catolin / Paintings of feminists in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Communication Commission of the Archbishopric of Cochabamba ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 10, 2023 / 16:30 pm (C...

null / Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free Washington D.C., Mar 10, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA). "What is the nature of journalism? What are we getting right and what are we getting wrong?" Father Dave Pivonka, the president of Franciscan University, in...

Pope St. John Paul II in 1979. / L'Osservatore Romano Denver, Colo., Mar 10, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Polish lawmakers denounced a documentary alleging that when he was a cardinal and archbishop in Poland, Pope St. John Paul II covered up alleged child ...

Delegates at the fifth assembly of the German Synodal Way, meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 10, 2023, applaud after the he passage of a measure to establish official blessings for same-sex sexual relations. The motion passed with only 14 of 202 del...

Italian Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu (right) waits prior to the start of a consistory during which 20 new cardinals are to be created by the Pope, on Aug. 27, 2022 at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. ( / Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty I...

Damage to the neighborhood near the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Aleppo, Syria / Madonna Ewaz/ACI MENA ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 9, 2023 / 15:35 pm (CNA). Father Hugo Alaniz, an Argentine missionary of the Institute of the Incarnate Word in Aleppo, Syria,...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega / Taiwan Presidential Office (CC BY 2.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 9, 2023 / 14:35 pm (CNA). The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega dissolved Caritas Nicaragua, the aid organization of the Catholic Church that assists those most ...

A sonogram picture of a fetus in the second trimester of a woman's pregnancy / Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Mar 9, 2023 / 14:02 pm (CNA). Lawmakers in Wyoming have sent a new abortion ban to the governor's desk to be signed into law, in an attempt...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega / Taiwan Presidential Office (CC BY 2.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 9, 2023 / 11:01 am (CNA). In a new blow to the Church in Nicaragua, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega has ordered the legal status of several institutions to...

St. Peter's Basilica. / feliks/Shutterstock. Vatican City, Mar 9, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA). St. Peter's Basilica will now host an hour of Eucharistic adoration on its front portico once a month. Beginning March 14, adoration will take place every sec...

Dome of the Rock with Christian church in foreground in Jerusalem. / Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Mar 9, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis underlined the "universal value" of Jerusalem in a meeting with members of a Vatican-Palestinian interrelig...

null / AS photo studio/Shutterstock. Denver, Colo., Mar 9, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). Two state legislatures are considering ending any legal protections for a priest who learns about sexual abuse in the confessional. In response, Catholic leaders warned that...

Pope Francis arrives with Cardinal Marc Ouellet (R) of Canada for the opening of three-day Symposium on priesthood in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Feb. 17, 2022. / Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images) Vatican City, Mar 9, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). Cardin...

Laocon and His Sons, Vatican Museums. / Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Mar 9, 2023 / 08:11 am (CNA). The Vatican held a hearing Thursday to try three climate activists for criminal damage to a famous statue in the Vatican Museums. Guido Viero, 61, and Ester ...