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From left to right: Robert Neal, chairman of Catholic University of America’s Board of Trustees; Father Robert Dowd, president of the University of Notre Dame; George Harne, president of Christendom College; Monsignor Joseph Reilly, president of Seton Hall University; and Gerard Joyce, president of Mount St. Mary’s University. / Credit: Courtesy of Robert Neal and…
On the last day of June, a month that the Catholic Church dedicates to the Sacred Heart, the pope asked people to continue praying for Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Myanmar, and other parts of the world where there is much suffering caused by war. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jun 30, 2024 / 09:59 am…
Father Roger Landry displays the Blessed Sacrament aboard the vessel “Sewickley” on the Ohio River near Steubenville, Sunday, June 23, 2024. / Credit: Colleen Rowan CNA Staff, Jun 30, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Faithful on the Seton Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage recently boarded an old-fashioned “sternwheeler” and processed down the Ohio River…
Kathleen Bordo Crombie stands next to an icon of St. Francis of Assisi, dedicated to her late husband, Robyn. The Church of the Divine Child in Dearborn, Michigan, parishioner took up iconography after taking a class at the Sacred Art Institute of St. Edmund’s Retreat Center on Enders Island in Mystic, Connecticut, where she learned…
The Tuan Ma statue is paraded around Larantuka City during the Semana Santa Holy Week celebrations on Indonesia’s Flores island. / Credit: Alfonso Giostanov/Creative Commons/Wikimedia Rome Newsroom, Jun 30, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Flores, Indonesia’s most Catholic island located in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), is set to become an international pilgrim destination following government…
Pope Francis presides over Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, June 29, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 29, 2024 / 09:45 am (CNA). On the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Francis invited the Catholic faithful — including the recently appointed metropolitan archbishops who…
A view of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher during the Easter Vigil, which was celebrated on the morning of Saturday, March 30, 2024. / Credit: Marinella Bandini ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 29, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). In the midst of the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza, the patriarchs and leaders of ancient Christian churches…
Mercy Health Perrysburg Hospital in Perrysburg, Ohio. / Credit: Mbrickn, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Jun 29, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). A spokesperson for a major Catholic hospital system based in Ohio clarified to CNA this week that the system does not perform abortions but may, in emergency situations, perform procedures…
The Merrimack County Courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire. / Credit: Warren LeMay from Covington, Kentucky, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Jun 29, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A private school teacher in New Hampshire faked an illness so she could drive a student to get an abortion without the knowledge of the student’s parents….
A 1775 painting of the fireworks over Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, painted by Jakob Philipp Hackert. / Credit: Public Domain Rome Newsroom, Jun 29, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). For the past 500 years, the Vatican has celebrated the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul with a bang with a spectacular fireworks show influenced by…
