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null / Credit: Reshetnikov_art/Shutterstock Puebla, Mexico, Feb 11, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Being invited to the wedding of a family member or friend is often a cause for joy, but for many Catholics, being invited to a same-sex wedding can precipitate a deep internal conflict. How can one reconcile loyalty to family or a…
Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, is pastor of the parish church at the Marian shrine of Medjugorje. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/ACI Prensa Madrid, Spain, Feb 11, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, the pastor of the parish church at the Marian shrine of Medjugorje, welcomed the recent Vatican recognition of the spiritual…
Our Lady of Lourdes grotto, Lourdes, France. / Credit: Elise Harris/CNA CNA Staff, Feb 11, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. In Lourdes, France, in 1858, 13-year-old Bernadette Soubirous was collecting pieces of wood as part of her daily chores when she…
Parishioners attend a July 2024 Mass at St. Peter Church in Quincy, Illinois. / Credit: Randy Dickerman CNA Staff, Feb 10, 2025 / 17:40 pm (CNA). After years of uncertainty over whether in-person Mass attendance numbers would ever rebound after plummeting during the COVID-era lockdowns, new data suggests that Mass attendance levels have quietly returned…
Bishop Rolando Álvarez in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 10, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA). The Nicaraguan government has lashed out at the Vatican following an interview that Bishop Rolando Álvarez gave last week to the Spanish-language edition of EWTN News in Rome. “We are speaking out against statements made…
Pope Francis greets His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Wales at the canonization of St. John Henry Newman at the Vatican on Oct. 13, 2019. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 10, 2025 / 17:20 pm (CNA). Buckingham Palace announced in a Feb. 7 statement that King Charles and Queen Camilla of England will travel…
Migrants walk alongside the railroad tracks after dismounting from the “La Bestia” train, which they rode through Mexico to reach the Mexico-U.S. border near Chihuahua, Mexico, on Sept. 27, 2023. / Credit: David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 10, 2025 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Minnesota’s Catholic bishops released a statement Feb. 7 advocating for “comprehensive immigration…
The Caesars Superdome is seen on Feb. 7, 2025, ahead of Super Bowl LIX, where the Kansas City Chiefs played the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans. / Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images National Catholic Register, Feb 10, 2025 / 16:30 pm (CNA). The internet is aflutter every year when Super Bowl Sunday comes…
Pope Francis meets with participants of the conference “Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and the Sciences,” sponsored by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, held at the Vatican from March 14–15, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 10, 2025 / 11:40 am (CNA). Defending the rights of Indigenous people is a matter of…
Cardinal Michael Czerny is the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. / Credit: Pablo Esparza/CNA CNA Newsroom, Feb 10, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). A prominent Vatican cardinal said on Monday that people are being “terrorized” by the U.S. government’s “crackdown” on immigration and freeze of Catholic-run aid programs. Cardinal Michael…
