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The Vatican on Jan. 10, 2024, announced the confirmation of the election of a new head of the Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Eastern Catholic church in India, Bishop Raphael Thattil. / Credit: Jpullokaran, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Jan 10, 2024 / 10:15 am (CNA). Pope Francis has confirmed a new head…
Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez. / Credit: Facebook Diocese Media – TV Merced Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 10, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). Throughout 2023, more than 130 Catholic priests and religious were either arrested, kidnapped, or murdered, according to a new report on Catholic persecution published by Aid to the Church in Need. The report…
Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his Wednesday general audience on Jan. 10, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 10, 2024 / 09:45 am (CNA). In the third installment of his catechetical series on vice and virtue, Pope Francis on Wednesday focused on the sin of gluttony, noting that the vice is not about…
Sister María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, whose religious name was María Antonia of St. Joseph. / Credit: Public domain Rome Newsroom, Jan 10, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis next month will preside over the canonization Mass of the woman set to become Argentina’s first female saint, the Vatican said this week. The…
Presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Florida, speaks with EWTN News President and COO Montse Alvarado on Jan. 8, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News CNA Staff, Jan 9, 2024 / 20:00 pm (CNA). In an interview with EWTN News, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shared his experience of “the power of prayer” and his belief that family…
Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua, on Jan. 6, 2024, ordained nine new priests in the midst of one of the worst waves of persecution against the Catholic Church in the country. / Credit: Archdiocese of Managua ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 9, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the archbishop of…
Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. / Credit: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 9, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA). Vatican City has new tenants: seven nuns from Argentina who, at the request of Pope Francis, will live in Mater Ecclesiae (“Mother of the Church”), the monastery where Pope…
Janada Marcus, 22, was forced to flee Boko Haram with her family twice before the terrorists attacked them again, killing her father and kidnapping her. / Credit: Aid to the Church in Need Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 9, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA). Global Christian Relief, a religious freedom advocacy group, has developed a new…
Following his release, Bishop David O’Connell (third from left) joined Father Jean Felicien, Monsignor Thomas N. Gervasio, and Monsignor Sam Sirianni at their hotel in Rome. / Credit: TrentonMonitor.com staff photo CNA Staff, Jan 9, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA). Bishop David M. O’Connell of the Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey, was released from a…
Peter Sonski, presidential candidate for the American Solidarity Party, delivers a speech at the Catholic University of America. / Credit: Bernadette Dalgetty CNA Staff, Jan 9, 2024 / 16:35 pm (CNA). As the U.S. presidential race heats up ahead of the November general election, numerous contenders are throwing their hats in the ring to challenge…
