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The cover of Raymond Arroyo’s album “Christmas Merry & Bright.” / Credit: Sophia Music Group CNA Staff, Nov 16, 2023 / 12:40 pm (CNA). Combining warm vocals and the classic sound of a New Orleans jazz band, Raymond Arroyo’s album “Christmas Merry & Bright” offers a fresh spin on treasured Christmas melodies. The recently released album currently…
Sister Belén de la Cruz. / Credit: Fundación Declausura ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The Catholic Association of Propagandists hosted a conference Nov. 15 titled “What’s the use of a cloistered nun in the 21st century?” According to its statutes, the Spanish group is “a private association of lay faithful…
Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, vice-president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, at the USCCB’s fall meeting Nov. 15, 2023. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2023 / 19:30 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops will continue to highlight the threat of abortion as a “pre-eminent priority” in the introduction to a…
“Love life, choose life:” National March for Life and Family in Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 18, 2022. / Credit: Sister Amata Nowaszewska Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 15, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA). Polish lawmakers in the New Left political party introduced two bills that would liberalize the country’s abortion laws after the 2023 elections pushed the…
Pope Benedict XVI on April 21, 2007, in Vigevano, Italy. / Credit: miqu77/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). A supposed comment by the late Pope Benedict XVI concerning Spain and the devil has been circulating on social media in recent days. The observation attributed to the pontiff comes from Jorge…
null / Bumble Dee / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA). A group of nearly 30 U.S. senators this week called on the Biden administration to rescind the Department of Defense’s controversial policy that authorizes the payment of travel expenses for service members and their families seeking abortions. In October of…
Father Isaac Thomas Hecker founded the Paulist Fathers in New York City in 1858. / Credit: Paulist Fathers Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops voted Tuesday to advance the cause of beatification and canonization of Servant of God Isaac Thomas Hecker, a 19th-century American priest who founded the Missionary…
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has called for a national response to combat growing Masonic membership in the Philippines in a note published Wednesday. The note, signed by the dicastery’s prefect Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández and Pope Francis, said it is “necessary to put in place a coordinated strategy among the individual…
The U.S. bishops on Wednesday approved an “introductory note” to give voting guidance to Catholics, which included the passage of a last-minute amendment emphasizing that opposing abortion is the preeminent priority for the bishops’ conference. Share The measure was approved at the fall gathering of the U.S. bishops’ conference, held in Baltimore, with no floor…
Pope Francis addresses pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience on Nov. 15, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 15, 2023 / 11:03 am (CNA). Pope Francis said Wednesday that Christians who are always resentful and full of complaints are not credible witnesses to the Gospel because joy is an…
