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Blessed Theodore Romzha. Left: A painting in the Basilian monastery of Glen Cove, New York, painted in the 1980s. Photo taken by Josaphat Vladimir Timkovic, OSBM. Right: An icon of Theodore Romzha, St. Anthony’s Church at Russicum. / Credit: Misko3, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Vladimir, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Detroit, Mich.,…
When the bells at St. Peter’s Basilica chimed nine o’clock on Saturday evening, hundreds of Catholics joined a candlelight rosary procession, praying the rosary in several languages as a steam of candles formed a lighted ribbon around the edges St. Peter’s Square. The Oct. 21 procession was the third to be held this month, as…
Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen, Germany at the Synod on Synodality press briefing Oct. 21, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez Vatican City, Oct 21, 2023 / 12:40 pm (CNA). A German bishop participating in the Synod on Synodality challenged the idea that the Catholic community in his country is at odds with the universal Church…
Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury, England, presides over a Mass for marriage in his diocese on Oct. 14, 2023. / Credit: Simon Caldwell/St. Gabriel News and Media London, England, Oct 21, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). The institution of marriage is not merely in “cataclysmic decline” but is at risk of being eradicated altogether, a…
A section of the priests’ house at St. John Paul II Rwamishenye Church in the Diocese of Bukoba in Tanzania was destroyed by the storm Oct. 18, 2023. / Credit: Radio Mbiu ACI Africa, Oct 21, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). St. John Paul II Rwamishenye Church in the Diocese of Bukoba in Tanzania and…
Archbishop Faustino Armendáriz of Durango, Mexico. / Credit: Archdiocese of Durango ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 20, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The archbishop of Durango, Mexico, Faustino Armendáriz, commented that “it’s a challenge to seek the will of God” at the Synod on Synodality, where he is a participating member. The synod is taking place…
null / Credit: Mel Elias/Unsplash ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 20, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) declared three articles that criminalize abortion in the penal code of Chihuahua state to be unconstitutional. In response to the decision, pro-life leaders criticized this “great blow” against the “fundamental and…
Father Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, the dean of the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University in California, speaks at a press conference Oct. 17, 2023, at the Synod on Synodality. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Africa, Oct 20, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). The work of synodality “will begin” when the ongoing conversations in Rome…
The prayer of the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, in the Anglican Cathedral Church of St. George the Martyr, Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Oct 20, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA). The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has arrived in the Holy Land…
Palestinian children rest in a refugee tent along the Gaza Strip on Oct. 20, 2023, in Khan Yunis, Gaza. / Credit: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images CNA Staff, Oct 20, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA). A major global Christian aid group is warning of looming “devastation” amid the Israel-Hamas war as it struggles to get direly needed…
