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Pro-lifers march through lower Manhattan amid a heavy downpour and pro-abortion protests necessitating a significant police presence on March 23, 2024. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 25, 2024 / 18:18 pm (CNA). In what has become an annual confrontation, pro-life advocates faced taunts and intimidation from abortion activists as they made their…
Saint Josemaría Escrivá inspired and promoted UNIV, an international meeting of young university students seeking to deepen their faith. Since 1968, thousands of students travel to Rome every Holy Week for this purpose. / Crédit: Ágatha Depiné / Unsplash ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 25, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). In 1968, St. Josemaría Escrivá inspired…
A Palestinian family walks past buildings destroyed in previous Israeli strikes in Gaza City on March 25, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. / Credit: AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 25, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is asking the American faithful…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, gives the final blessing with the relic of the holy cross at the end of the Palm Sunday procession from Bethphage to Jerusalem on March 24, 2024. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Mar 25, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA). On Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, Christians participated in…
Plymouth Bishop-elect Christopher Whitehead’s planned installation was cancelled in February. / Credit: © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk|Flickr|CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED CNA Staff, Mar 25, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). A diocese in England has announced that it will undertake “no canonical action” against a priest whose installation as bishop of Plymouth was canceled without explanation earlier this year….
The Annunciation by Fra Angelico (public domain) via Wikimedia Commons. / null ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 25, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Every March 25, the solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord is celebrated in the Catholic Church, but this year Holy Week supersedes that observance. The Annunciation of the Lord commemorates the archangel…
St. Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy. / Shutterstock|maziarz Vatican City, Mar 25, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis will travel by motorboat along Venice’s canals and offer Mass in St. Mark’s Square during his visit to the “floating city,” the Vatican announced Monday. The Holy See Press Office has released the schedule for the pope’s upcoming…
Ultrasound of baby at 12 weeks / arhendrix/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 25, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA). Norway’s Council of Catholic Bishops is warning that a proposal to liberalize the country’s abortion laws “represents a step away from Norway’s Christian and humanistic heritage” and “obscures our understanding of what is, and is not, a…
Pope Francis addresses approximately 7,000 children from around the world in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Nov. 6, 2023, at an event sponsored by the Dicastery for Culture and Education dedicated to the theme “Let us learn from boys and girls.” / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 25, 2024 / 08:51 am (CNA)….
Pope Francis meets with Nigerians living in Rome on March 25, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 25, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis gave thanks on Monday for the many young Nigerians who have answered God’s call to the priesthood or religious life. In a meeting with Nigerians living in Rome…
