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Pope Francis meets with the Dicastery for Culture and Education at the Vatican on Nov. 21, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 21, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA). In an address to participants of the first plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Culture and Education on Nov. 21, Pope Francis said desire, fearlessness,…
From left: John Hinshaw, Jonathan Darnel, Lauren Handy, Joan Bell, and Jean Marshall are among the pro-life activists who are still in prison or awaiting prison sentences on federal charges brought by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice for protests at abortion clinics — but President-elect Donald Trump has signaled he will likely grant them…
Father Max Josef Metzger, a Catholic priest executed by the Nazi regime in 1944 for his peace activism and ecumenical work, was beatified Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, in Freiburg, Germany. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Germany CNA Newsroom, Nov 21, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Father Max Josef Metzger, a Catholic…
Despite an online petition posted to change.org in mid-October that garnered over 53,000 signatures in protest of the evergreen to be used for the Vatican Christmas tree being chopped down, the tree arrived as scheduled in St. Peter’s Square at 7 a.m. on Nov. 21, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 21, 2024…
St. John’s Cathedral in the Netherlands is lit up for Red Wednesday on Nov. 23, 2022. / Credit: Ldhank, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Nov 21, 2024 / 13:05 pm (CNA). Catholic churches around the world were lit up in red on Wednesday as a display of solidarity with persecuted Christians. Organized…
“In Jesus there is no contradiction between truth and charity,” notes professor Marta Rodríguez Díaz, who teaches in the philosophy department of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum. / Credit: Courtesy of Marta Rodríguez Díaz Madrid, Spain, Nov 21, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Marta Rodríguez Díaz, a Catholic expert on gender ideology, said that rather…
Cardinal Kevin Farrell celebrates Mass for the World Meeting of Families 2022 on June 25, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 21, 2024 / 08:03 am (CNA). Pope Francis has appointed U.S. Cardinal Kevin Farrell to oversee “new and unavoidable” reform to the Vatican’s pension system as it faces a “serious prospective imbalance” that…
null / Credit: KieferPix/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 21, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news. Wyoming judge blocks state pro-life laws Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon plans to appeal to the state Supreme Court after a county judge blocked two pro-life laws in Wyoming. The judge blocked the Life…
“We think of these stories of saints that have withstood all this persecution as belonging to the Middle Ages,” said Bill McGurn, godfather of Jimmy Lai. “It’s going on right now, and we can see it.” / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot CNA Staff, Nov 21, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). After Catholic media mogul and…
Alessandro Allori, “The Presentation of Mary,” 1598. / Credit: Public domain National Catholic Register, Nov 21, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). It’s easy to conceptualize the presentation of the Lord because we find it in Scripture. Luke’s Gospel tells of the Holy Family’s journey to the Temple when Jesus was 8 days old. According to…
