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Image of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, beside sealed boxes of documents compiled during the diocesan phase of his canonization cause. / Crédito: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Rome Newsroom, Nov 15, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Nov. 14 marked the closing of the diocesan phase of the cause for the beatification of Father Pedro Arrupe, the 28th…
Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washington, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education, speaks to CNA during the USCCB’s fall plenary assembly on Nov. 13, 2024. / Credit: Jack Haskins/EWTN News Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA). U.S. bishops gathering in Baltimore this week discussed their plans…
Bishop Carlos Herrera is president of the Bishops’ Conference of Nicaragua. / Credit: Bishops Conference of Nicaragua ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2024 / 15:25 pm (CNA). The dictatorship of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has expelled Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez of Jinotega, president of the country’s bishops’ conference. The prelate recently criticized a pro-Ortega…
null / Credit: Dan Henson/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 15, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). A bookkeeper at a Florida Catholic parish has been sentenced to more than two years of federal prison after stealing nearly $900,000 from the church at which she managed financial records. Heather Darrey will spend 27 months in prison on a…
Left: Protesters burn a bishops’ circular in front of St. Mary’s Basilica, the cathedral of Ernakulam Archdicoese in India. Right: An elderly woman puts a burning circular into a bin in front of Vazhakkala, India, church. / Credit: Anto Akkara Kochi, India, Nov 15, 2024 / 12:15 pm (CNA). This month’s delayed priestly ordination of…
Pope Francis waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Angelus address on Nov. 10, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 15, 2024 / 12:45 pm (CNA). As Rome’s temperatures drop and the jubilee year approaches, Pope Francis has asked the city’s priests and religious to open any vacant facilities on…
null / Credit: rarrarorro/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 15, 2024 / 11:20 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent abortion- and pro-life-related news. Thune ‘an unwavering defender of life’ A pro-life advocacy group is lauding the GOP’s recent election of Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as Republican majority leader to replace Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell….
Pope Francis meets with Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley on Nov. 14, 2024, at the Vatican ahead of a meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life titled “Common Good: Theory and Practice” in which Mottley was a panelist. The academy’s meeting discussed the global financial system in light of the social doctrine of the…
Ernest Board (1877-1934), “Albertus Magnus Teaches in the Streets of Paris.” / Credit: Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0 National Catholic Register, Nov 15, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). St. Albert the Great was considered the “wonder and the miracle of his age” by his contemporaries. He was an assiduous Dominican whose accomplishments and gifts to the…
Mexico’s new president, Claudia Scheinbaum, meets with the country’s bishops during their plenary assembly on Nov. 13, 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of Mexican Bishops Conference Puebla, Mexico, Nov 14, 2024 / 16:40 pm (CNA). The first meeting between Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s new president, and the country’s Catholic bishops took place on Nov. 13. Among the…
