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A statue of Charles de Foucauld in front of the Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg, France. / Maykova Galina via Shutterstock. Rome Newsroom, Feb 28, 2024 / 12:46 pm (CNA). After a nearly year-long vacancy, Pope Francis has appointed a new head of the French Archdiocese of Strasbourg, which has been subject to an apostolic…
Pope Francis appeared in a wheelchair at his general audience on Feb. 28, 2024. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 28, 2024 / 12:01 pm (CNA). Pope Francis this week called for prayers for, and expressed his closeness to, the victims of twin terrorist attacks on Catholic and Muslim communities in the West African country…
Pope Francis meets at the Vatican with bishops from the Armenian Catholic Church o Feb. 28, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Feb 28, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church to “take up the cry for peace” amid ongoing threats of conflict and…
null / Billion Photos / Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Feb 28, 2024 / 10:18 am (CNA). A former priest was sentenced to 15 months in prison this week for molesting an Ohio minor suffering from cancer. The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office announced the indictment of Luis Barajas in November of last year. Barajas had been “acting…
Pope Francis appears in a wheelchair at his general audience on Feb. 28, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 28, 2024 / 07:43 am (CNA). Pope Francis went to the hospital on Rome’s Tiber Island on Wednesday morning after meeting with the public at his general audience. The Vatican confirmed on Feb. 28…
Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his Wednesday general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on Feb. 28, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 28, 2024 / 07:44 am (CNA). Pope Francis, still visibly suffering from a “cold,” visited a Rome hospital for diagnostic tests on Wednesday following his weekly…
Credit: tglegend/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 27, 2024 / 17:20 pm (CNA). A New Orleans priest accused of choking and raping a teenager in the 1970s is too sick to attend his own trial, his lawyers are claiming, though state prosecutors are vowing to bring him into the courtroom on a hospital stretcher in order to…
The president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, Bishop Antonio Staglianò, affirms that Freemasonry is incompatible with Catholicism. / Credit: Public Domain ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 27, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, Bishop Antonio Staglianò, has reiterated the incompatibility of Catholics belonging to the Masons days after…
Father Felice Palamara. / Credit: Father Felice Palamara / Facebook ACI Stampa, Feb 27, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). During evening Mass on Feb. 24, Father Felice Palamara, a parish priest in Cessaniti, a village in the Vibo Valentia province of Italy, was once again apparently targeted by the ’Ndrangheta, a criminal organization in Italy…
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke during the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, June 29, 2019. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Staff, Feb 27, 2024 / 13:38 pm (CNA). Cardinal Raymond Burke this week invited Catholics to join in praying a nine-month novena seeking Mary’s intercession beginning on March…
