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A scene from the “Silent Night” Christmas video from the Diocese of Lansing. / Credit: Matt Riedl/Diocese of Lansing CNA Staff, Dec 24, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Diocese of Lansing in Michigan has released a Christmas video featuring the story of a beloved Christmas carol, a high school student choir, and the beauty…
A variety of fish dishes served on Christmas Eve. / Francesca Pollio Fenton / CNA CNA Staff, Dec 24, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). There are numerous Christmas Eve traditions families around the world take part in, whether it’s watching a certain movie together, baking cookies for Santa, opening one present before going to bed,…
A moment at the vigil in preparation for Christmas, held on Dec. 22 at the Church of St Saviour in Jerusalem. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Dec 23, 2023 / 09:42 am (CNA). Christians in Jerusalem began the weekend before Christmas with an evening of prayer and music. On Friday, Dec. 22, in the Church…
Fresco by Giotto of St. Francis of Assisi embracing the Child Jesus at Christmas Mass in Greccio in 1223, located in the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Assisi, Italy. / Public domain Rome Newsroom, Dec 23, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of…
Cardinal Thomas Aquinas Manyo Maeda of Osaka, Japan / Credit: Photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 23, 2023 / 05:55 am (CNA). The Vatican is currently investigating miracles associated with the intercession of Blessed Justus Ukon Takayama that, if confirmed, could lead to the canonization of the Church’s first samurai saint….
Pope Francis embraces Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, during a meeting with bishops of the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the Vatican on Sept. 6, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 16:56 pm (CNA). The leader of the Ukrainian Greek…
null / null CNA Newsroom, Dec 22, 2023 / 16:44 pm (CNA). Will Catholic parishioners go to Mass twice in the coming days as they’re supposed to, once for Sunday and a second time for Christmas? Parish coffers could take a hit if they don’t. “The fourth Sunday of Advent is also Christmas Eve. How…
Bishop Louis Mascarenhas of Allahabad greets Father Babu Francis at the gate of Naini jail in Prayagraj district with a bouquet of flowers. / Credit: Diocese of Allahabad Bangalore, India, Dec 22, 2023 / 16:36 pm (CNA). A Catholic priest who was arrested by Indian authorities for violating “anti-conversion” laws, was released from jail on…
Sacred art under construction at Centro Aletti. / Credit: Vaticano/EWTN News Rome Newsroom, Dec 22, 2023 / 16:50 pm (CNA). Daniele Libanori, an auxiliary bishop of Rome and commissioner of the Loyola Community, founded by Father Marko Rupnik and recently dissolved by the Vatican, has revealed that all the nuns of that community will return…
A plenary meeting of the Polish bishops’ conference on March 15, 2022. / episkopat.pl. CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 15:40 pm (CNA). Catholic bishops in Poland have ruled out the possibility of blessing “same-sex unions,” but remain open to blessing individuals with homosexual tendencies, only if they are “living in complete abstinence” of sexual…
