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Pope Francis delivers his Sunday Angelus message to about 20,000 faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 22, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 22, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). During Sunday’s Angelus address, Pope Francis spoke to the faithful on the importance of the correct relationship between the Church…
Pope Francis meets President Joe Biden on Oct. 29, 2021. / Vatican Media/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 22, 2023 / 13:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Sunday afternoon to discuss “the latest developments in Israel and Gaza,” according to a statement from the White House. The Holy See…
A priest surveys the damage caused by ISIS at a Catholic Church in Karamles, Iraq. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Stephen Rasche CNA Staff, Oct 23, 2023 / 08:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis cited the examples of Western intervention in Libya and Iraq in arguing that the West should not “export” its own “type of…
Father Timothy Radcliffe told the Synod on Synodality delegates on Oct. 23, 2023, that the time before the 2024 assembly “will be probably the most fertile time of the whole synod, the time of germination.” / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 23, 2023 / 07:27 am (CNA). Father Timothy Radcliffe said Monday that “the…
null / Credit: mangpor2004/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 23, 2023 / 09:27 am (CNA). The attorney general of Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit against the nation’s first religious charter school, claiming its establishment violates the state’s religious liberty protections. State Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a Republican, announced the lawsuit in a press release on his website…
Myanmar’s Cardinal Charles Maung Bo celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 23, 2023 / 12:11 pm (CNA). Myanmar’s Cardinal Charles Maung Bo described the Synod of Synodality as “a long march of hope for all humanity” during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica…
Delegates meet at round tables during the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 10, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 23, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). As the Synod on Synodality in Rome launches into its final week with a changed calendar, all eyes are on the anticipated Letter to the People of God,…
St. John Paul II during an open-air Mass on June 9, 1991, in Warsaw, Poland. / Credit: JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 22, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). Catholics worldwide remember St. John Paul II on his feast day, Oct. 22. His “secret” to life and all that he did, he…
Blessed Theodore Romzha. Left: A painting in the Basilian monastery of Glen Cove, New York, painted in the 1980s. Photo taken by Josaphat Vladimir Timkovic, OSBM. Right: An icon of Theodore Romzha, St. Anthony’s Church at Russicum. / Credit: Misko3, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Vladimir, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Detroit, Mich.,…
When the bells at St. Peter’s Basilica chimed nine o’clock on Saturday evening, hundreds of Catholics joined a candlelight rosary procession, praying the rosary in several languages as a steam of candles formed a lighted ribbon around the edges St. Peter’s Square. The Oct. 21 procession was the third to be held this month, as…
