‘Hope Never Disappoints’ is Holy Father’s new book for 2025 Jubilee Year — By: Catholic News Agency

The book “Hope Never Disappoints” is based on interviews author Hernán Reyes Alcaide (pictured here) conducted with Pope Francis. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot CNA Staff, Nov 20, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The author of a new book based on interviews with Pope Francis discussed the Holy Father’s views on Christian hope, migration, and…

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Nearly half of 2,500 anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe were in France, report says — By: Catholic News Agency

The historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, was ravaged by arson on the night of Sept. 2, 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of Father Sébastien Roussel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 20, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A recently released report from a European watchdog group has found…

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Brooklyn pastor removed after secretly loaning $2 million of parish funds to lawyer — By: Catholic News Agency

Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brooklyn. / Credit: Jim.henderson, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Nov 19, 2024 / 14:35 pm (CNA). A pastor in Brooklyn, New York, has been removed from his city parish after a review found alleged “severe” financial violations, including a secret transfer of parish funds totaling almost…

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Pro-life group asks Supreme Court to throw out abortion ‘buffer zone’ laws — By: Catholic News Agency

Sarah Richardson, a sidewalk counselor with Coalition Life in Carbondale, Illinois. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Thomas More Society St. Louis, Mo., Nov 19, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA). A St. Louis pro-life group has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a rural Illinois town’s now-defunct “buffer zone” law, which previously impeded the…

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What is the Jerusalem Cross? — By: Catholic News Agency

Coat of arms of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher. / Credit: Mathieu Chaine/CC BY-SA 3.0 National Catholic Register, Nov 19, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Associated Press recently claimed that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, had tattoos supposedly connected with Christian nationalism and even white supremacy. It…

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