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null / Credit: Vlad Zymovin/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday released a report estimating that nearly 772,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States at the beginning of 2024, the highest number recorded since data collection began in 2007. HUD’s figure,…
A student workshop at The College of St. Joseph the Worker. / Credit: College of St. Joseph the Worker Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 30, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA). The College of St. Joseph the Worker, an Ohio-based Catholic college, received a $5 million grant from West Virginia to develop a construction company to employ…
Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at Massachusetts’ Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021. / Credit: Andrew Bukuras/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA). A Wisconsin judge last week ordered that a sexual assault case against disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick will remain paused until the laicized clergyman dies. …
The entry of the cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29, 2024, marks the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land. The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, crossed the threshold of the basilica carrying the jubilee cross accompanied by Archbishop Moussa Hage, Maronite…
“What we have to aspire to is to be saints,” the relatives of the late Belgian King Baudouin recall him urging. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Baudouin family Madrid, Spain, Dec 30, 2024 / 11:55 am (CNA). After praying silently at King Baudouin’s tomb during his recent trip to Belgium, Pope Francis announced the…
Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Dec 30, 2024 / 10:25 am (CNA). Pope Francis praised former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s “firm commitment” to peace and reconciliation in a message of condolence following Carter’s death at…
Father Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and raping a teenage boy in the 1970s, heading off a long-delayed trial that launched with an indictment last year. / Credit: New Orleans Police Department CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2024 / 10:55 am (CNA). Lawrence Hecker, the disgraced Louisiana priest who was sentenced to life…
Blessing of a plane at Dublin Airport. / Credit: Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) Dublin, Ireland, Dec 30, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). Dublin Airport’s tradition of blessing aircraft entered a new chapter in 2024 with the appointment of a Nigerian-born priest as chaplain, ensuring the continuation of a custom that dates back 77 years. The…
A wooden crucifix / AC Wimmer / EWTN News CNA Newsroom, Dec 30, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). Thirteen missionaries and pastoral workers were killed in service to the Catholic Church in 2024, according to a new report published on Monday. Eight priests and five lay people lost their lives across three continents, according to…
Catholic Land Movement co-founders Andrew Ewell (top left) and Michael Guidice (top right), pictured here on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrew Ewell Ann Arbor, Michigan, Dec 30, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Going back to the land is a newfound reality for Catholic families who are part of…
