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Many people were struck by the number of people who took part in the eucharistic procession in Emmitsburg, Maryland, on June 6, 2024. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno Washington D.C., Jun 8, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The tiny town of Emmitsburg, Maryland (population 3,629) grew by approximately 50% on Thursday, June 6, when a crowd…
Pope Francis said he prays every day for an end to the war in Israel and Palestine during a prayer service June 7, 2024, in the Vatican Gardens, commemorating 10 years since the symbolic planting of an olive tree in the presence of the presidents of Israel and Palestine in 2014. / Credit: Vatican Media….
Bishop Gregory Hartmayer, archbishop-elect of Atlanta. CNA file photo. / null CNA Staff, Jun 7, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA). Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer of Atlanta was elected chairman of the board of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) for a three-year term earlier this week, the organization announced on Thursday. The largest, private professional education…
Bishop Rob Mutsaerts, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands. / Credit: Danny Gerrits/wikiportret.nl via Wikimedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0) CNA Newsroom, Jun 7, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). A Dutch bishop has described the Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans declaration, which permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples, as an attempt to “make peace with a…
Edinburgh city center, Scotland. / Credit: Shutterstock London, England, Jun 7, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA). Catholic bishops in Scotland have said that new data indicating that the majority of Scots have no religion comes as no surprise. Census results from the year 2022 on ethnicity, identity, and religion in Scotland were released on May…
null / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Jun 7, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Washington is set to ordain 16 men to the priesthood later this month, an increase of 10 compared with 2023. According to the archdiocese, the Mass of Ordination will take place June 15 at 10 a.m. at the…
St. Adalbert Parish sits in the Pilsen neighborhood on the Lower West Side of Chicago in June 2018. / Credit: Julię Sawicki/YouTube CNA Staff, Jun 7, 2024 / 15:45 pm (CNA). A more-than-century-old Catholic parish in Chicago is one step closer to gaining protection status from the city government, putting what one advocate calls the…
Bishop Mariano Crociata meets with Pope Francis on March 23, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 7, 2024 / 14:45 pm (CNA). The president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), Bishop Mariano Crociata, encouraged all European citizens, and especially Catholics, to participate in the elections for…
Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury, England. / Credit: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk London, England, Jun 7, 2024 / 13:27 pm (CNA). A Catholic bishop in England has urged Catholics to make assisted suicide and euthanasia a major consideration before they vote in the forthcoming general election. Following the announcement on May 22 that there would be a general…
Jill Simons, the executive director of the American College of Pediatricians (left) and Catholic Medical Association Executive Director Mario Dickerson (center) talk with “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol on June 6, 2024. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/YouTube CNA Staff, Jun 7, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Top medical groups and physicians have signed a…
