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An unprecedented letter published by the synod on synodality Wednesday said that the Church should focus more on the idea of synodality ahead of the October 2024 final session of the Church’s years-long consultative process. The Oct. 25 text also emphasized discipleship of Jesus Christ, and commitment to both service of the poor and protection…
Maison DesChamps has assumed the brand of “pro-life spiderman” as he has scaled seven city skyscrapers to bring attention to the pro-life cause. In this photo, he is climbing the Accenture Tower in Chicago Oct. 10, 2023. / Credit: Pro-Life Spiderman/YouTube Oct. 13, 2023 CNA Staff, Oct 25, 2023 / 11:31 am (CNA). On Oct….
Pope Francis waves to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square during his Angelus address on Oct. 15, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Oct 25, 2023 / 12:35 pm (CNA). Pope Francis reaffirmed the impossibility of women becoming priests, or even modern Church deacons, in an interview for a book released Tuesday in Italy. The…
Pope Francis at the general audience at St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 25, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 25, 2023 / 12:13 pm (CNA). Pope Francis in his ongoing catechetical series on apostolic zeal on Wednesday spoke about the example of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, the ninth-century “apostles of the Slavs” whose…
Father Marko Rupnik. / Credit: Screen shot/ACI Prensa Rome Newsroom, Oct 25, 2023 / 12:55 pm (CNA). Father Marko Rupnik, the former Jesuit priest and mosaic artist accused of serious abuses against women, has been accepted for priestly ministry in a diocese in Slovenia, according to Italian and German media reports. The news portal financed…
As the synodal sessions in Rome approach their half-time break, participants are preparing to vote on the text of an interim report on their work. The assembly has also decided to issue a “Letter to the People of God” — a novelty in the history of the institution. The synodal assembly’s decision to address the…
null / Credit: Jill Sauve/Unsplash Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 25, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA). Nearly 30 prominent Catholic scholars have signed on to an essay calling for advancing “a Catholic vision of the human person” and bringing about a society that puts “life at the center.” The essay, published by First Things this month,…
Archbishop Ulises Gutiérrez of Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela and second vice president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference. / Credit: CEV ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 25, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). Ulises Gutiérrez, the archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar and second vice president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, said the opposition primary elections in Venezuela on Sunday…
Hussam Abu Sini and Chiara Pezzulich bring their daughter, Marta, to be baptized on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Haifa, Israel. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Hussam Abu Sini Jerusalem, Oct 25, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). Catholic couple Hussam Abu Sini and Chiara Pezzulich hadn’t planned to…
Stan “JR” Zerkowski received a handwritten note from Pope Francis in October 2023. / Credit: JR Zerkowski/Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2023 / 18:56 pm (CNA). A Kentucky man involved in LGBTQ Catholic ministry has posted a letter online he says he received earlier this month from Pope Francis thanking him for his work….
