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Pilgrims from South Korea wave a flag at the closing Mass of World Youth Day Lisbon with Pope Francis on Aug. 6, 2023. / Credit: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, May 24, 2024 / 14:56 pm (CNA). Nearly 300 delegates hailing from bishops’ conferences in 110 countries are meeting in Rome to participate in the…
City skyline in Sydney, Australia. / Irina Sokolovskaya/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, May 24, 2024 / 13:32 pm (CNA). A new report by the Catholic Church in Australia shows a drop in Mass attendance in 2021, a year heavily affected by pandemic restrictions. However, the report also highlights an unexpected increase in young adult participation, despite an…
Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska. / Credit: Diocese of Lincoln CNA Staff, May 24, 2024 / 13:02 pm (CNA). Bishop James Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, on Friday encouraged Pope Francis to “familiarize himself” with the American episcopate before a prospective return to the United States, which Conley said “could be an…
Pro-abortion activists include the Marea Verde, or Green Wave Movement, a grassroots coalition of protesters who wear green bandanas at events. / Credit: EWTN Pro-Life Weekly/Screenshot CNA Staff, May 24, 2024 / 12:27 pm (CNA). The Vatican recently released a staunchly pro-life document, Dignitas Infinita (“Infinite Dignity”), that identifies various threats to human dignity such…
National Shrine and Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan, also known as Basilica of Mary, Help of Christians, in Shanghai, China. / lobia, Wikimedia. CNA Staff, May 24, 2024 / 11:12 am (CNA). Seventeen years ago today, Pope Benedict XVI asked that all Catholics in the world observe May 24, traditionally observed as the…
As Father Julio Fernández Techera sees it, the Society of Jesus’ leadership prefers “to maintain the fiction that things are going well rather than risk recognizing the religious and apostolic decline of the society.” / Credit: Catholic University of Uruguay ACI Prensa Staff, May 24, 2024 / 10:31 am (CNA). Father Julio Fernández Techera, a…
Elena Guerra, Marie-Léonie Paradis, and Giuseppe Allamano are among the Blesseds whom Pope Francis paved the way for canonization in a decree on May 23, 2024. / Credit: Oblates of the Holy Spirit; centremarie-leonieparadis.com; and Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, May 24, 2024 / 09:41 am (CNA). Pope Francis has authorized…
Valerie Huber, the president and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Health, speaks to EWTN Pro-Life Weekly on Thursday, May 23, 2024 / EWTN News CNA Staff, May 24, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). One woman is working with world leaders to promote women’s health without also submitting to the pro-abortion ideologies that often come…
Hundreds of Catholics join the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas on May 22, 2024. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNA San Juan, Texas, May 24, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). There’s hot and then there’s south Texas hot. MacKenzie Warrens, a National Eucharistic Revival “perpetual pilgrim,” told CNA that the heat…
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria. / Credit: Vatican Media; ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2024 / 18:01 pm (CNA). Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who heads the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF),…
