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Pope Francis washes the feet of 12 young men and women, inmates at Casal del Marmo juvenile detention center on Rome’s outskirts, during a Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday, April 6, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 11, 2024 / 11:18 am (CNA). Visiting prisoners is one of the Catholic Church’s…
Suhail Shadi Abu Dawod with Father Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest of Gaza, on the seashore in Gaza last summer 2023. Romanelli, belongs to the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), a Catholic clerical religious institute founded in Argentina on March 25, 1984, which Abu Dawod has petitioned to join. / Credit: Courtesy of Father…
An estimated 24,000 people participated in Eucharistic adoration at the SEEK24 conference in St. Louis on Jan. 3, 2024. / Credit: FOCUS CNA Staff, Mar 11, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The 2024 National Eucharistic Congress, taking place July 17–21 in Indianapolis, is expected to draw tens of thousands of people for Masses, worship, talks, workshops,…
Pope Francis delivers the Angelus address on March 10, 2024. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 10, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis said Sunday that governments and civil society have a fundamental duty to help ensure that women are able to accept the gift of life. “Institutions, social and political, have the fundamental…
Richard Carrillo, composer of “Requiem for the Forgotten,” conducts a choir. Carrillo is finishing his doctorate in choral conducting at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. / Credit: Kevin White CNA Staff, Mar 10, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A Miami parish will host the world premiere of a new sacred…
The violence in one of the most troubled regions of Mexico led to a temporary parish closure. / Credit: Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 10, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Bishop Cristóbal Ascencio García of the Diocese of Apatzingán in Mexico, one of the regions hardest hit by organized crime and where a church was…
Female pilgrim on Camino Portuges de la Costa, Portugal, August 2021. / Photo credit: Confraternity of St. James – Croatia Dubrovnik, Croatia, Mar 10, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Since the Middle Ages, a great number of ancient roads throughout Europe have led to Santiago de Compostela (St. James of Compostela) — a shrine in…
Pope Francis presides over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish in Rome on March 8, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 9, 2024 / 18:34 pm (CNA). The Vatican on Saturday said Pope Francis did not mean to suggest that Ukraine ought to surrender to Russia when he referred to…
Votes are counted in Dublin, Ireland, on March 9, 2024, after voters in the country went to the polls March 8 to decide on a pair of referendums proposing wording changes to the Irish constitution aimed at reflecting secular values. / Credit: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images CNA Newsroom, Mar 9, 2024 / 10:32 am (CNA). Voters…
Holy Spirit stained glass in St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Alexey Gotovskyi/CNA CNA Staff, Mar 9, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A novena is a traditional form of Catholic prayer lasting nine days. Typically, novenas focus on asking God for a specific intention and many are prayed through a saint’s intercession. Novenas are a beautiful…
