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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…
null / ZouZou/shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 12:27 pm (CNA). Draft guidelines issued this week by the U.K. Department for Education (DfE) state that schools should only support student pronoun changes in rare cases and that teachers should not be forced to use the pronouns chosen by students identifying as transgender. At the…
Papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski. / lvivadm via Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0). CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 12:32 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has sent Cardinal Konrad Krajewski to the Holy Land for Christmas as his personal representative to bring solidarity to people suffering amid the war. The Polish cardinal, who serves as the papal…
People mourn outside the Charles University building following a mass shooting yesterday, on Dec. 22, 2023, in Prague, Czech Republic. Fourteen people were killed and 25 injured. Police say the gunman was a 24-year-old student at the university. / Credit: Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 11:38 am (CNA). Pope Francis offered…
On Dec. 21, leaders of the three communities responsible for the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher took part in a meeting for the presentation of the work in progress in the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in 2023. From left to right: Father Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, H. B. Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox…
Pornhub website logo. / Kate Krav-Rude/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 10:35 am (CNA). The European Union (EU) this week announced that Pornhub, along with two other high-traffic pornography sites, must comply with major age verification and safety laws passed last year by the governing body. The European Commission, which proposes and enforces laws…
Israeli Ambassador to the Holy See Raphael Schutz. רפי שוץ, CC BY-SA 3.0 / Credit: רפי שוץ|Wikimedia| CC BY-SA 3.0 Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 22, 2023 / 10:41 am (CNA). The Israeli ambassador to the Holy See accused the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem of “blood libel” for saying that two Christian women in Gaza had…
