Bishop Yaacoub Camil Afram Antoine presides over a Mass celebrating the launch of the Association of Hebrew Catholics on Aug. 8, 2025, at St. Thomas Syriac Catholic Church in Jerusalem. / Credit: Yarden Zelivansky Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 11, 2025 / 12:19 pm (CNA). A group dedicated to providing a welcoming space for Jewish converts…
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Cardinal Fernando Chomali, archbishop of Santiago, Chile. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdioceses of Santiago, Chile ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 11, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). “The Christian of the 21st century will either be a martyr or will not be a Christian,” the archbishop of Santiago and primate of Chile, Cardinal Fernando Chomali, said during…
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The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration from the Our Lady of Solitude Monastery in Tonopah, Arizona, accompanied by their local priest. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Mother Marie Andre Campbell CNA Staff, Aug 11, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Aug. 11 the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Clare of Assisi, a woman…
In many Catholic parishes and schools today, it has become common to designate specific “themes” for Mass. A Wednesday morning school Mass might revolve around a theme such as light, joy, kindness, or unity. Students and teachers are often asked to help prepare a “Liturgy Sheet,” complete with song choices, Scripture selections, and, of course,…
The above indictment is from Women: Icons of Christ, authored by Phyllis Zagano. This well-respected scholar is arguably the leading advocate for the ordination of women to the diaconate, an issue to which she has devoted her theological career. She was a member of the 2016 Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women…
