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null / Credit: IgorAleks/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). Few things ignite the “culture wars” like the seemingly innocent and innocuous abbreviation “Merry Xmas.” Many, including faithful Christians, believe that the “XMas” is an attempt to de-Christianize one of Christianity’s most holy of holidays: By rendering the word “Xmas” instead of…
Scene from “It’s a Wonderful Life” / Credit: RKO Radio Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons St. Louis, Mo., Dec 22, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). Fire up your favorite streaming service, and there’s no shortage of Christmas movies for you to snuggle up with. But if you’re a Catholic parent looking for a classic…
null / Credit: Lisa Missenda/Shutterstock Denver, Colo., Dec 22, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). This year, the fourth Sunday of Advent falls on Dec. 24 — Christmas Eve. The next day is Monday, Dec. 25 — the solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord. That means the faithful must attend two Masses back to back…
Mnsgr. Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega is bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, Nicaragua. / Credit: Diocese of Siuna ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Nicaraguan police arrested on Dec. 20 the bishop of Siuna, Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega, making him the second prelate arrested by the dictatorship headed…
Olive harvest season in the southern border town of Rmeish, Lebanon, in the midst of a crisis situation. / Credit: Rmeish’s Facebook page CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 17:45 pm (CNA). About 90% of those living in southern Lebanon’s Christian villages have fled their homes amid the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, according to…
His Excellency José Ignacio Munilla is bishop of the Orihuela-Alicante Diocese in Spain. / Credit: Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 18:15 pm (CNA). The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, has elaborated on his response to the Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans on the blessing of couples in…
Bishops gathered at the19th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar in Accra, Ghana, July 2022. / Courtesy of SECAM. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 16:51 pm (CNA). More Catholic bishops have publicly declared their opposition to the Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans document, which permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples,…
Woman with transgender symbol on her hand. / Juanje Garrido/shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 14:52 pm (CNA). Saint Mary’s College — a Catholic women’s school in Notre Dame, Indiana — is reversing its controversial transgender admissions policy, the school’s president revealed in an email on Thursday. President Katie Conboy had last month confirmed a…
Injured parishioners receive Communion on the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 17, 2023, at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. / Credit: Father Gabriel Romanelli/Facebook CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 12:22 pm (CNA). The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has again denied claims that an IDF sniper “murdered” two women at the Catholic Holy Family Parish…
Pope Francis gives his annual Christmas address to the cardinals who work in Vatican offices on Dec. 21, 2023, in the gilded Hall of Benediction at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 11:13 am (CNA). Pope Francis warned the Roman Curia on Thursday that “rigid ideological positions” can be…
