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Archbishop Georg Gänswein was the personal secretary of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. / Credit: Bohumil Petrík ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 19, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA). The Spanish University Foundation (FUE) canceled an event announced weeks ago that was going to feature Archbishop Georg Gänswein, who was the personal secretary of Pope Benedict…
Father José Filiberto Velázquez Florencio, a priest of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa in the Mexican state of Guerrero, reported that gunmen shot at the car he was in around midnight Oct. 18, 2023. / Credit: Father José Filiberto Velázquez Florencio ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 19, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA). Father José Filiberto Velázquez Florencio,…
Thousands of mostly Jewish protestors from the progressive groups Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow participated in a protest inside and outside the Cannon House Office Building, which is attached to the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 18, 2023. / Credit: Photos used with permission from Jewish Voice for Peace CNA Staff, Oct 19,…
null / Alexandra Lande CNA Staff, Oct 19, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Catholics around the world this week united in a day of prayer and fasting for peace and reconciliation in the Holy Land as war continues to devastate the region. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, called on Catholics to…
Health care professionals at the Colorado-based, pro-life Bella Health and Wellness healthcare clinic / Credit: Bella Health and Wellness Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 19, 2023 / 15:23 pm (CNA). A mother-daughter duo of Catholic nurses and founders of a nonprofit health organization are suing the state of Colorado to be allowed to continue their ministry…
Pope Francis meets with World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder at the Vatican on Oct. 19, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 19, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Thursday met with the president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, with the leader imploring the…
Paolo Ruffini, president of the synod’s communication commission (left); Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas (center); and Cardinal Michael Czerny (right) at a press briefing on Oct. 19, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez Vatican City, Oct 19, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Vatican Cardinal Michael Czerny said Thursday that synodality poses “no danger to the…
Three nuns, a seminarian, and the driver of the vehicle they were in were abducted in Nigeria’s Imo State on Oct. 5, 2023. The nuns’ order, the Missionary Daughters of Mater Ecclesiae, appealed for their safe release in an Oct. 6 statement. The group was released Oct. 13-14, 2023. / Credit: Missionary Daughters of Mater…
Father Björn Lundberg, center, with the tour group he led to the Holy Land in front of the Wedding Church at Cana. / Credit: Bernardo Gonzalez CNA Staff, Oct 19, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA). Father Björn Lundberg was looking forward to his trip to Israel. A parish priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia,…
After Chinese bishops left the Vatican’s synod on synodality early this week, sources in China told The Pillar that their country’s government had given the bishops only short-term exit visas from China. The bishops actually overstayed their allotted time, choosing to remain at the synod past their mandated return date, according to senior Church sources…
