Category: Church News

null / Mehdi Kasumov/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 20, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A K–12 education initiative out of the Catholic University of America (CUA) seeks to bolster what its director calls “the distinctive excellence of Catholic education” by offering school accreditation and fostering professional development of Catholic school leadership around the country.  The Institute…

An illustration of the topic of Thomas Aquinas and AI created by DALL-E, a text-to-image model native to ChatGPT. / Credit: DALL-E/OpenAI CNA Staff, Feb 20, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). What would Thomas Aquinas think of artificial intelligence (AI), and what does a large language model think of Thomas Aquinas? According to one German…

Official portrait of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, designed by Silvia Patricio. Courtesy of the Fatima Shrine. / null ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 20, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Every Feb. 20, the Catholic Church celebrates Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the little shepherd seers of Fatima. Both were born in Aljustrel, a small…

An archaeological guide provided historical information and answered questions during a visit to the catacombs by delegates of the Synod on Synodality. Early Christians gathered within the catacombs for funeral rites and to honor the martyrs. Rome, Italy. Oct. 12, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 19, 2024 / 13:50 pm (CNA). Rome’s…

Father Fernando Gonzalez, / Credit: Cameron County Sheriff’s Department CNA Staff, Feb 19, 2024 / 14:51 pm (CNA). A priest in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, has been arrested after being accused of sexual misconduct with a minor victim.  Brownsville Bishop Daniel Flores said in a statement last week that diocesan officials had “received an…

Cardinal Protase Rugambwa at Santa Maria in Montesanto, Feb. 18 / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Feb 19, 2024 / 12:30 pm (CNA). Cardinal Protase Rugambwa took possession of his titular church, Santa Maria in Montesanto — one of the twin churches that sits in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo — on Sunday. The Rite of…

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron imposes ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass on Feb. 14, 2024, at St. Aloysius Parish in downtown Detroit. Archbishop Vigneron encouraged Catholics to think of this Lenten season as a military campaign proclaiming the kingdom of Christ. / Credit: Valaurian Waller/Detroit Catholic Detroit, Mich., Feb 19, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Archbishop…

Symbols of several of the world’s leading religions. / Credit: Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 19, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Father Eduardo Hayen Cuarón, director of the weekly newspaper Presencia of the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, recently responded to the question of whether all religions are equal, good, and true. Responding on…

Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 19, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Goya Producciones has announced that the film “Guadalupe: Mother of Humanity” will premiere on Feb. 22 in the United States (with English subtitles), Mexico, Central America, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, and Chile. “Shot on location in Mexico, the United States, Spain, and Germany,…

Pope Francis addresses pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square during his Sunday Angelus on Feb. 18, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 18, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA). On the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis focused his Angelus address on the temptation of Jesus in the desert to highlight that it is an…