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The Insurance Fund for Priests Association is one of the 1,500 nongovernmental organizations whose legal status was canceled this month by the dictatorship. / Credit: Alexey Gotovskiy/EWTN Vatican Lima Newsroom, Aug 28, 2024 / 16:23 pm (CNA). The Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua has eliminated and confiscated a retirement fund for aging Catholic priests, which it…
Archbishop Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo leads a Christmas Mass at Jakarta Cathedral in Jakarta on Dec. 25, 2023. / Credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Aug 28, 2024 / 14:37 pm (CNA). Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo, the archbishop of Jakarta, has decried how the poor in Indonesia ultimately pay the price for the country’s…
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak on stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. / Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 28, 2024 / 15:07 pm (CNA). “First it was kind of a shock — we…
St. Augustine is the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, and a number of cities and dioceses. / Credit: Attributed to Gerard Seghers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Lima Newsroom, Aug 28, 2024 / 15:53 pm (CNA). St. Augustine, whose feast day is today, Aug. 28, had an aversion for gossip to the extent he…
Pope Francis meets with the bishops of the Arabian region on Aug. 28, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 28, 2024 / 12:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis met Wednesday with the Latin-rite Catholic leaders of some of the Middle Eastern and Arabic-speaking countries amid fears of an escalation of the…
The Smith family at the motherhouse for the Nashville Dominican sisters on the solemnity of the Assumption, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Colin Smith CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 13:20 pm (CNA). A student at the University of Notre Dame revealed this month that his entire family converted to Catholicism…
Bishop Mylo Hubert C. Vergara of the Diocese of Pasig in the Philippines announced in July 2024 that the Vatican has given permission to continue with the sainthood cause of Servant of God Laureana “Ka Luring” Franco. / Credit: Diocese of Pasig CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 14:07 pm (CNA). Bishop Mylo Hubert C….
Pope Francis addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his general audience on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 28, 2024 / 11:06 am (CNA). Pope Francis said Wednesday those who knowingly and intentionally “repel” migrants are committing a grave sin. Breaking from the current theme of his general…
Pope Francis addresses the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Angelus address on Aug. 25, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 28, 2024 / 12:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis this week congratulated Catholics and Orthodox Christians for collaborating together for the XVII Inter-Christian Symposium taking place Aug. 28–30 in Italy. This year’s…
null / Credit: JoannaTkaczuk/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). St. Augustine, whose feast day is today, Aug. 28, is associated most prominently with Hippo Regius, the ancient name of the modern city of Annaba in Algeria. Yet well before his ancient bishopric, Augustine hailed from a now-long-vanished town located just a…
