Mass attendance ticks back up nationally after pandemic falter, data suggests — By: Catholic News Agency

Parishioners attend a July 2024 Mass at St. Peter Church in Quincy, Illinois. / Credit: Randy Dickerman CNA Staff, Feb 10, 2025 / 17:40 pm (CNA). After years of uncertainty over whether in-person Mass attendance numbers would ever rebound after plummeting during the COVID-era lockdowns, new data suggests that Mass attendance levels have quietly returned…

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Nicaragua lashes out at Vatican after EWTN interview with Bishop Rolando Ɓlvarez — By: Catholic News Agency

Bishop Rolando Ɓlvarez in Rome. / Credit: Daniel IbƔƱez/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 10, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA). The Nicaraguan government has lashed out at the Vatican following an interview that Bishop Rolando Ɓlvarez gave last week to the Spanish-language edition of EWTN News in Rome. ā€œWe are speaking out against statements made…

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Minnesota bishops call for ā€˜generous but also prudentā€™ welcome of refugees — By: Catholic News Agency

Migrants walk alongside the railroad tracks after dismounting from the ā€œLa Bestiaā€ train, which they rode through Mexico to reach the Mexico-U.S. border near Chihuahua, Mexico, on Sept. 27, 2023. / Credit: David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 10, 2025 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Minnesotaā€™s Catholic bishops released a statementĀ Feb.Ā 7 advocating for ā€œcomprehensive immigration…

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