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null / Credit: SeventyFour/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 1, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). On Nov. 1, the Catholic Church celebrates the solemnity of All Saints, a day in which all who have attained eternal life in heaven are honored and celebrated. The Catholic Church has tens of thousands of saints, blesseds, and venerables — some…
Top, left to right: St. Catherine of Siena, St. John Paul II, Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, St. Francis de Sales. Bottom, left to right: St. John Henry Newman, St. Gertrude of Helfta, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and St. Thomas Aquinas. / Credit: Brooklyn Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Gov.pl, CC…
New Boston Archbishop Richard Henning and outgoing archbishop Cardinal Cardinal Seán O’Malley during a packed two-hour-plus installation Mass at Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Oct. 31, 2024. / Credit: Andrzej Skonieczny Boston, Mass., Oct 31, 2024 / 19:00 pm (CNA). Newly installed Boston Archbishop Richard Henning challenged people of the archdiocese Thursday to…
Our Lady of Lourdes grotto, Lourdes, France. / Credit: Elise Harris/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 31, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA). Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman threw his support behind a Park Hills Catholic church that is embroiled in a legal battle over the proposed construction of a shrine within its property. “It’s not up to the…
Pope Francis with members of “Project Hope,” a program of accompaniment for the spiritual and emotional healing of women and men who suffer the consequences of having chosen abortion, on Oct. 30, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 31, 2024 / 15:10 pm (CNA). Pope Francis received in audience on Wednesday members of…
null / Credit: muzsy/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2024 / 15:40 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal inaccuracies in their lyrics as well as a blanket ban on music by three Catholic composers who…
“This isn’t 1984, but 2023 —I should never have been arrested or investigated simply for the thoughts I held in my own mind,” Vaughan-Spruce, who was arrested for praying outside of an abortion clinic, said. / Credit: ADF UK Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 31, 2024 / 16:10 pm (CNA). A national “buffer zone” law went…
Lights for the celebration of the Hindu festival Diwali. / Credit: Abhinaba Basu via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Bangalore, India, Oct 31, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue issued a message at the celebration of Diwali — India’s biggest Hindu festival of lights, held this year on Oct. 31 —…
Pope Francis prays near the tomb of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, superior general of the Society of Jesus between 1965 and 1981, during a Mass at the Jesuit Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, known as the “Gesu” in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2022, on the 400th anniversary of the canonization of…
Pope Francis meets with participants of Italy’s Educational Commitment Movement of Catholic Action (MIEAC) national congress on Oct. 31, 2024, at a private audience held in the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 31, 2024 / 10:55 am (CNA). Pope Francis encouraged members of Italy’s Educational Commitment Movement of Catholic Action (MIEAC) on…
