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Students of the Studienjahr during a lesson at Beit Josef, the headquarters of the program, within the compound of the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem. The Studienjahr program (launched in 1973) is an annual program of ecumenical studies. It brings together every year about 20 German-speaking theology students from all Christians denominations. January…
Pro-life activists are facing federal charges for protesting abortion at the Carafem Health Center Clinic in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. / Credit: Ichabod|Wikimedia|GFDL CNA Staff, Jan 26, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). Six pro-life activists are on trial in Nashville, Tennessee, facing federal charges related to a 2021 blockade of a nearby abortion clinic. The blockade,…
The flag of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. / Credit: AM113/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 26, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). A Catholic-founded charitable organization based in suburban Denver has filed a federal lawsuit against several entities associated with the Order of Malta, claiming that a person associated with the order has “nearly destroyed” the…
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby meets with Pope Francis on Jan. 25, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 26, 2024 / 15:45 pm (CNA). Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby celebrated an Anglican liturgy this morning in the Catholic Basilica of St. Bartholomew, located on Tiber Island in Rome’s Tiber River. …
Susan Lutzke, an alumna of St. Bede School, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in less than one month for her former Catholic institution. / Credit: Tina Lutzke CNA Staff, Jan 26, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). After an Illinois tax credit scholarship program was discontinued, some of the state’s Catholic schools are closing…
Seminarians at Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Nigeria’s Kaduna state where four students were kidnapped and one, Michael Nnadi, was killed in 2020. / Credit: Good Shepherd Major Seminary Kaduna/ Facebook ACI Africa, Jan 26, 2024 / 11:40 am (CNA). Last year, 2023, was a difficult year for Brother Peter Olarewaju, a postulant at the…
Pope Francis meets with members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 26, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Friday clarified the Vatican’s position on same-sex blessings, affirming the recent declaration Fiducia Supplicans and emphasizing that “moral perfection”…
Mary Rose and Ryan Verret. / Credit: Courtesy image via Be Light CNA Staff, Jan 26, 2024 / 10:40 am (CNA). Pope Francis recently nominated two U.S.-based Catholic advocates of marriage and family life to a key Vatican dicastery, an honor that left the recipients both “stunned” and “excited.” The Holy Father named Ryan and…
Security forces guard St. John’s Catholic Church in Youhanabad, Lahore, Pakistan, in 2019. / Credit: Aid to the Church in Need Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 26, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA). Pakistan is ending its mandatory study of Islam for non-Muslim children in first through 12th grade and implementing a new curriculum, one that will…
Father Simon-Peter Engurait. / Credit: Uganda Episcopal Conference CNA Staff, Jan 26, 2024 / 07:15 am (CNA). Father Simon-Peter Engurait has been chosen as diocesan administrator of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in Louisiana following the unexpected death last week of Bishop Mario Dorsonville. Dorsonville died of complications stemming from liver disease on Jan. 19, leaving…
