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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 Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 22, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA). As the Vatican tries to settle a chaotic yearlong dispute between a Carmelite monastery and Diocese…
President Joe Biden leaves after attending Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 27, 2023. / Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Pittsburgh, Pa., Apr 22, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden, a Catholic, is battling a high unfavorability rating among his fellow Catholics, according to survey…
Credit: (CC0 1.0) CNA Staff, Apr 22, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Since 1970, Earth Day has been celebrated yearly on April 22 to demonstrate support worldwide for environmental protection. The Catholic Church has a long tradition of calling for proper stewardship of the earth. In May 2015, Pope Francis published Laudato Si’, an encyclical…
Pope Francis waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on April 21, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Apr 21, 2024 / 09:36 am (CNA). Pope Francis reflected on the image of Christ as the Good Shepherd during his Regina Caeli address Sunday, noting that it is a role characterized…
Father Nicéforo Obama from Equatorial Guinea was able to be trained as a priest thanks to the Pontifical Mission Societies. / Credit: OMP ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 21, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). On Sunday, April 21, in addition to celebrating the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, the Catholic Church in Spain also celebrates…
The nave of St. Casimir Church in Buffalo, New York. / Credit: Michael Shriver/buffalophotoblog.com CNA Staff, Apr 21, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). A historic Polish Catholic church in Buffalo, New York — one with a unique connection to St. John Paul II — is facing tens of thousands of dollars in bills that threaten…
People queue to buy food in Havana on March 27, 2024. Claims of lack of food coupled with long blackouts, which affected almost the entire Cuban population in recent weeks, led hundreds of people to demonstrate on March 17 in at least four cities in the country, in the largest protests recorded since the historic…
Father Marcel Uwineza. / Credit: Sister Olga Massango/Daughters of St. Paul ACI Africa, Apr 20, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). Women who were sexually assaulted, infected with diseases, and forced into exile, among other brutalities during the 1994 genocide against Tutsis, remain deeply scarred three decades later, and their stories must be told, a Rwandan-born…
Blessed Elena Guerra. / Credit: Oblates of the Holy Spirit Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2024 / 08:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Elena Guerra, paving the way for the canonization of a new female saint known as “an apostle of the Holy Spirit.” A friend of…
After David Smallbone’s successful music company collapses in their home country of Australia, he moves his family to Nashville, Tennessee, in the hopes of a brighter future in the movie “Unsung Hero.” / Credit: Lionsgate CNA Staff, Apr 20, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). St. Teresa of Calcutta once said: “If you want to change…
