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The rose window of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral is seen a few weeks before its reopening to the public scheduled for Dec. 7, 2024, on Oct. 25, 2024, in Paris. / Credit: Chesnot/Getty Images Seattle, Wash., Dec 3, 2024 / 09:05 am (CNA). U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to travel to Paris this Saturday…
Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador. / Credit: Presidencia SV ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 3, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church in El Salvador has asked President Nayib Bukele not to repeal the 2017 law that prohibits the mining of metals, including gold, following the president’s announcement of his intention to lift the…
Close to the Pantheon in the heart of Rome, one of the city’s oldest and most popular ecclesiastical tailor shops — Ditta Annibale Gammarelli — is ready for the Dec. 7, 2024, consistory for the creation of new cardinals. / Credit: Sergio Natoli/EWTN News Rome Newsroom, Dec 3, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Close to…
A 17th-century Japanese depiction of St. Francis Xavier from the Kobe City Museum collection. / Credit: Public Domain CNA Staff, Dec 3, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Dec. 3, the Roman Catholic Church honors St. Francis Xavier, one of the first Jesuits who evangelized vast portions of Asia. Francis Xavier was born in 1506…
Missouri’s bishops said citizens can reach out to the governor’s office to express opposition to the pending execution of Christopher Collings, who was convicted of the 2007 abduction, rape, torture and murder of a 9-year-old girl. Collings is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of the Missouri Department of Corrections…
Smoke of war rises over a residential area in Aleppo. On Dec. 1, 2024, the Franciscan complex of the Terra Santa College in Aleppo was hit by a strike. No casualties were reported. / Credit: ACI MENA ACI MENA, Dec 2, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Syrian city of Aleppo, whose name has long…
According to Venerable English College, during the Catholic persecution in England, students would gather around the “Martyrs’ Picture” in the chapel to sing the Te Deum — a Latin hymn of thanksgiving — whenever news reached Rome of the martyrdom of a former student. This custom continues today on Martyrs’ Day, Dec. 1, when the relics…
The Holy Father’s Dec. 2, 2024, letter to Catholics in Nicaragua comes at a critical time for the country. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 2, 2024 / 15:45 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has written a moving letter to Catholics in Nicaragua to express his closeness, affection, and incessant prayer to the Virgin, imploring…
Attendees including workers of reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral gather during a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron (center) in the nave of the cathedral in Paris on Nov. 29, 2024. / Credit: CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 2, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA). As the Notre Dame Cathedral…
The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity Discalced Carmelite Nuns CNA Staff, Dec 2, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). The Vatican has suppressed the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, following a…
