Marc Fogel’s family: Rosary and faith sustained them through his detainment in Russia — By: Catholic News Agency

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Marc Fogel back to the United States after being released from Russian custody, at the White House on Feb. 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. / Credit: Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 12, 2025 / 16:00 pm (CNA). The family of Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher who…

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Mass attendance rises in the UK, though still far below pre-pandemic levels — By: Catholic News Agency

An altar display of items associated with 17th-century English martyr St. Edmund Arrowsmith at the Church of St. Edmund and St. Oswald in Ashton-in-Makerfield, a former mining town midway between Liverpool and Manchester / Photo credit: Joseph Kellaway Burnell CNA Staff, Feb 12, 2025 / 16:30 pm (CNA). Though not yet near pre-pandemic levels, Mass…

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Vatican to project Chinese artist's portraits of inmates on prison exterior — By: Catholic News Agency

The artist Yan Pei-Ming was photographed in his Paris studio in 2016. / Credit:Alfred Weidinger|Flickr|CC BY 2.0 Vatican City, Feb 12, 2025 / 14:20 pm (CNA). A Chinese artist’s paintings of inmates living inside one of Rome’s most well-known prisons will be projected on the prison building’s exterior and displayed in a new exhibit space…

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Pope Francis appoints three new bishops to U.S. dioceses — By: Catholic News Agency

L-R: Cincinnati Archbishop-elect Robert Casey, Sioux City Bishop-elect John Keehner, Norwich Bishop-elect Richard Reidy. / Credits: Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Diocese of Sioux City, Diocese of Worcester. CNA Staff, Feb 12, 2025 / 13:45 pm (CNA). The Vatican on Wednesday announced that Pope Francis had appointed three new bishops to dioceses in the United States.  The Archdiocese of Cincinnati…

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