Fom the Easter Vigil Mass in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, April 2025. / Credit: John McElroy CNA Staff, Jun 4, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The recent election of Pope Leo XIV has sparked new interest in Catholicism, with Google data showing a spike in searches on “how to become Catholic” shortly after the death…
Pittsburgh Bishop-elect Mark Eckman / Credit: Courtesy of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Vatican City, Jun 4, 2025 / 07:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appointed Pittsburgh Auxiliary Bishop Mark Eckman to lead the northern U.S. diocese, with the bishop-elect succeeding Bishop David Zubik in that role. Leo accepted Zubik’s resignation June 4. The…
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From the Roman office. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of St. Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa. Discourse on the Lords Ascension. The very thought of this day’s Festival is great enough in itself, but the Prophet David…
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This year’s class of ordinandi at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers. Bishop Joseph Massa is seated in the center. / Credit: Theo Deluhery, Diocese of Camden New York City, N.Y., Jun 4, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). In the Archdiocese of New York, where ordinations to the priesthood have sharply declined in recent decades, a…
Comedian and podcaster Theo Von recently showed a kind of courage that I hope and pray will be the defining characteristic of the rising generation of public figures: the courage of living in solidarity with the vulnerable. In a short, simple, unpretentious video, he spoke out on what he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
The leaked Liturgical Norms document from Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte reads like a parody of 1970s fervor, delivered by a tyrannical hand through a series of ironically rigid dictates. They are poised to cause direct harm to the priests of the diocese and, through their pain, to faithful parishioners. The man…
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