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Bishop Yao Shun of Jining and Bishop Yang Yongqiang of Zhouchun (right) of the People’s Republic of China at the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican in October 2023. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Nov 17, 2023 / 11:56 am (CNA). A Chinese bishop who attended the Synod on Synodality assembly has spoken out about…
Happy Friday friends, As all of you know, JD and I have been in Baltimore this week for the USCCB autumn assembly, and there is a lot of news to get through. So, I’m not going to bore you with a bunch of throat clearing, let’s just get to it. Share The News In Baltimore…
Pope Francis meets with the National Association of Hispanic Priests at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Nov. 16, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Nov 17, 2023 / 09:23 am (CNA). The presence of Jesus in every tabernacle points us to how we can serve our suffering brothers and sisters who share in Christ’s…
Pope Francis tries some maté, Argentina’s national drink, at his general audience on April 5, 2023. / Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 17, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA). According to the Argentine newspaper Infobae, Pope Francis supposedly told a group of people close to him that his possible trip to Argentina does not depend…
null / Credit: Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 16, 2023 / 18:50 pm (CNA). A group of Catholic leaders from Costa Rica — including Daniel Blanco, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San José — recently participated in a webinar titled “Sacramental Secret: A canonical, legal, and preventive approach” in order to lay out the…
Sunday Mass attendance in Belgium rose modestly in 2022 after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, but attendance remains 40% down from 2017, according to new figures released Wednesday. The Church’s latest annual report, issued Nov. 15, said that Sunday Mass attendance was 6,183 higher than in 2021, when 166,785 people attended on an average Sunday…
null / Credit: KOTL/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 16, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). Claim: Local Mexican media reported that a 9-year-old boy was the first to see the supposed tears flowing from the eyes of a statue of Our Lady of Sorrows in a chapel in the village of El Chanal just north of…
John Henry Newman by Sir John Everett Millais. / Credit: Public domain CNA Staff, Nov 16, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, was one of several U.S. bishops who spoke passionately in support this week of a proposal to name the 19th-century English cardinal St. John Henry Newman a “doctor…
Washington Surgi-Clinic on F St. NW in Washington, D.C. on April 7, 2022. / Credit: Katie Yoder/CNA CNA Staff, Nov 16, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). An elderly woman could face up to 11 years in prison after she was found guilty Thursday of participating in a pro-life blockade of a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic…
null / Credit: Brian A Jackson / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 16, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The Oklahoma Supreme Court this week denied a request by the state superintendent of schools to intervene in a lawsuit involving the nation’s first religious charter school, a possible setback for the school as the lawsuit potentially threatens…
