Five years later: How some parishes are thriving after weathering COVID lockdowns — By: Catholic News Agency

An Easter Vigil procession at St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco. / Credit: St. Dominic Parish/Lorelei Low CNA Staff, Mar 15, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Five years ago this week, public health orders issued amid the uncertainty of the novel coronavirus turned Mass schedules across the country and the world upside down.  In those…

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Death camp in Mexico: Church denounces ‘cruelty and human wretchedness’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Entrance to the Izaguirre ranch. / Credit: Courtesy of the Office of the Prosecutor of the State of Jalisco Puebla, Mexico, Mar 14, 2025 / 17:10 pm (CNA). The Catholic Church in Mexico expressed its “profound indignation and grief” following the discovery of an organized crime training and extermination camp on a ranch in Jalisco…

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Order of Malta reaffirms commitment to Lebanon’s stability and reconstruction — By: Catholic News Agency

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (right) welcomies Sovereign Order of Malta Grand Chancellor Riccardo Paternò di Montecupo and the delegation at Baabda’s presidential palace on March 14, 2025. / Credit: The Sovereign Order of Malta ACI MENA, Mar 14, 2025 / 15:40 pm (CNA). Faithful to its ongoing commitment to supporting Lebanon, a high-level delegation from…

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Zelenskyy delivers list of POWs in Russia to the Vatican to mediate their release — By: Catholic News Agency

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shakes hands with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin during a meeting at the Vatican on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 14, 2025 / 16:10 pm (CNA). Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has provided the Vatican with a list of names of Ukrainians detained by…

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‘No future for Syria without Christians’: Archbishop calls for justice for massacre victims — By: Catholic News Agency

Archbishop Jean-Abdo Arbach. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 14, 2025 / 15:10 pm (CNA). The Greek-Catholic archbishop of Homs, Jean-Abdo Arbach, condemned the massacres of civilians that occurred in Syria last weekend — which left at least 1,000 dead — and urged Christians to maintain…

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Archbishop Sample rebukes ‘celebration of death’ as Oregon governor honors abortionists — By: Catholic News Agency

Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland, Oregon, processes out of the Church of Our Lady of Providence after Mass during a Rise Up Encounter of World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 4, 2023. / Credit: Giulio Capece/EWTN News Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 14, 2025 / 14:10 pm (CNA). Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample condemned what…

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