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null / Credit: Jesus Cervantes/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 5, 2025 / 15:40 pm (CNA). The Catholic Church has a series of practices and traditions that mark the liturgical calendar and guide the spiritual life of its faithful. Among these are fasting and abstinence during Lent, the 40-day period of preparation for Easter. To help…
null / Credit: Sidney de Almeida/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 5, 2025 / 16:10 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is currently investigating a possible Eucharistic miracle. “The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is aware of a reported occurrence that took place at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Morris, Indiana. A careful investigation, with assistance from a professional laboratory,…
Pope Francis administers confirmation during the Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, April 4, 2015. / Credit: Martha Calderon/CNA CNA Staff, Mar 5, 2025 / 14:40 pm (CNA). Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore has decided to lower the age of confirmation to 9 in a move designed to increase family involvement in the…
José Antonio Satué, bishop of Teruel and Albarracín in Spain. / Credit: Diocese of Teruel and Albarracín Madrid, Spain, Mar 5, 2025 / 15:10 pm (CNA). A former teacher at an Opus Dei school in Spain has been asked to leave the personal prelature after being found guilty following a second Vatican investigation of alleged…
U.S. Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 5, 2025 / 13:40 pm (CNA). A former Catholic priest who was convicted of sexually abusing a minor will be deported back to his native country of Colombia after he serves his time…
Cardinal Angelo De Donatis sprinkles ashes during the celebration of Mass on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at the Basilica of Santa Sabina located on Rome’s Aventine Hill. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 5, 2025 / 14:10 pm (CNA). Pope Francis said the Lenten journey reminds the Church that hope in Jesus Christ…
null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 5, 2025 / 12:10 pm (CNA). The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to pay out billions in frozen foreign aid, siding with a lower court that had directed the White House to disburse the money to nonprofit organizations. In its divided 5-4 ruling, the court upheld U.S. District…
null / Credit: maxuser/Shutterstock Vatican City, Mar 5, 2025 / 13:10 pm (CNA). A high-level gathering of judges, legal scholars, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts convened in Vatican City this week to explore the impact of AI on justice, democracy, and human dignity. The two-day workshop, titled “Artificial Intelligence, Justice, and Democracy,” was hosted by…
A woman receives ashes on the observance of Ash Wednesday at a church in Manila, Philippines, on March 5, 2025. The 40-day period of Lent begins for Catholics around the world on Ash Wednesday. / Credit: TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Mar 5, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis asked Christians on…
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2025, as Vice Preseident JD Vance (back left) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (back right) look on. / Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 5,…
