From the Roman Office. V. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. R. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo the Great 1st for Twelfth-Day. Dearly beloved brethren, we have but lately celebrated that day whereon the inviolate virginity of Blessed Mary gave…
Caracas Archbishop Raúl Biord Castillo. / Credit: Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) Caracas, Venezuela, Jan 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). On Friday, Jan. 10, according to Venezuelan law, the new president of the republic who won the July 28, 2024, election for the 2025–2031 term must be sworn in. While the country’s National Electoral…
Sister Tonia of the Heart of Jesus Borsellino at the booth for the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament at SEEK25 in Salt Lake City on Jan. 3, 2025. / Credit: Kate Quiñones/CNA CNA Staff, Jan 9, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Before Sister Tonia of the Heart of Jesus Borsellino became a religious sister…
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It was in early 1943, while the war in Europe continued to rage, that a young woman named Simone Weil, who would not live to see its end, set down a series of reflections on the spiritual renewal that France, then under brutal occupation, would need to undergo once the Nazi menace had finally been…
A few years ago, I did a deep dive on my Church History podcast on the Council of Trent, the great reform council that responded to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Trained as an academic historian, I often come to historical questions thinking in terms of processes rather than events, of impersonal influences…
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Firefighters run as a brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving brushfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned buildings and sparked evacuations as “life-threatening” winds whipped the region. / Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images Seattle, Wash., Jan 8, 2025 / 21:58 pm (CNA). A raging wildfire in the…
Students at St. Dominic Academy in Auburn, Maine. / Credit: Courtesy of Becket CNA Staff, Jan 8, 2025 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Catholic parents who live in rural Maine — far from any public schools — are challenging a state law that excludes most faith-based schools from Maine’s rural tuition assistance program. Maine’s tuition assistance…
