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The exhibition “En Route” at the Vatican Apostolic Library features historical artifacts and contemporary artistic interpretations. / Credit: Iacopo Scaramuzzi CNA Newsroom, Feb 1, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). As pilgrims make their way to Rome during the Jubilee Year, the Vatican Apostolic Library announced a new exhibition connecting historical journeys to modern pilgrimages through…
null / Credit: Nungning20/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 1, 2025 / 05:30 am (CNA). A priest in South Korea is serving up bowls of rich Korean stew in Seoul via a restaurant ministry as a means to fight youth hunger in the nation’s capital. Father Gabriel Lee Mun-su launched Youth Mungan “out of a desire to…
Pope Francis delivers his catechesis during the Jubilee audience in the Paul VI Hall on Feb. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Feb 1, 2025 / 06:06 am (CNA). Pope Francis highlighted Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion during a Jubilee audience at the Vatican’s…
Pope Francis speaks with Spanish clergy and seminarians on Jan. 30, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 1, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis discussed in a Jan. 30 audience with seminarians and formators from the ecclesiastical province of Valencia in Spain how his mother put up quite a…
St. Brigid of Kildare building the Church of the Oak, detail from a window of St. Etheldreda’s Church in London. / Credit: Lawrence OP via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Dublin, Ireland, Feb 1, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). In Ireland, Feb. 1 marks the beginning of spring and the celebration of “Lá Fhéile Bríde” —…
null / Credit: MantasVD/Shutterstock Dublin, Ireland, Feb 1, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way Ireland’s patron saint, St. Patrick, used…
“The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic” by Mark L. Clifford (right) is an account of Lai’s rags to riches story, his resistance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and his arrest in 2020 following the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. / Credit: David G….
null / Credit: Bumble Dee/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 31, 2025 / 15:55 pm (CNA). Pentagon officials have rescinded a Biden administration-era policy that granted paid leave and reimbursed travel expenses for military service members based in states where abortion is restricted. Officials at the Defense Travel Management Office announced the move to “Remove Travel…
People wait outside a distribution point to receive aid rations in Oromia Region, Ethiopia, in February 2018. / Credit: Will Baxter/Catholic Relief Services CNA Staff, Jan 31, 2025 / 16:25 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops have asked Catholics to reach out to their members of Congress and request the resumption of foreign aid programs following…
Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski serves on the Committee on Migration of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. / Credit: “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”/EWTN News Screenshot CNA Staff, Jan 31, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) committee that oversees…
