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Pope Francis prays during his general audience address in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on Dec. 27, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 13:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month of January is for the gift of diversity in the Church. “There is no…
Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience on Nov. 15, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA). Each month Pope Francis shares a prayer intention as part of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. The monthly prayer intentions express the Holy Father’s concerns for humanity and the mission of…
Image of “Santa Muerte,” or “St. Death.” / Credit: David Ramos/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 12:10 pm (CNA). Father Andrés Esteban López Ruiz, a member of the College of Exorcists of the Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico, recently warned about the risks of the cult of “Santa Muerte” or “St. Death,” pointing…
Archbishop Georg Gänswein celebrates a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 31, 2023, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 2, 2024 / 11:48 am (CNA). Friends, scholars, and former colleagues of Pope Benedict XVI gathered in the Campo Santo Teutonico in…
Firefighters inspect collapsed wooden houses in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2024, a day after a major 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture. / Credit: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 12:56 pm (CNA). Pope Francis was “deeply saddened” to learn of a devastating earthquake that…
Hong Kong media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai. / Credit: Napa Institute CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 11:10 am (CNA). Jimmy Lai, the embattled Hong Kong Catholic democracy activist, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to all charges leveled against him in his national security trial there. Lai, the Chinese-born founder of the…
null / Finkes / Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). There is growing interest in the trades for many families around the country, according to the leaders of postsecondary Catholic trade institutions, and it comes amid major skilled-labor shortages in the U.S. According to the 2023 Career Advancement in Manufacturing Report…
Three Kings. / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 2, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). How many days is Christmas? When should you finally take those lights off the porch or remove the tree? Read on for some of the arguments for and against commonly agreed-upon end dates for Christmas. ‘Christmas is one day’ This,…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, spoke about the “courage” and the “madness” of working for peace during his homily during the Mass of the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God, on Jan. 1, 2024, in the Pro-Cathedral of the Latin Patriarchate, in Jerusalem. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Jan 1,…
Pope Francis at the first Mass of the new year, urged the faithful to entrust 2024 to the Mother of God. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jan 1, 2024 / 10:15 am (CNA). Pope Francis began the new year by urging his fellow Catholics to entrust 2024 to the Mother of God, who “knows…
