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Students participate in a protest in support of Palestine and for free speech outside of the Columbia University campus on Nov. 15, 2023, in New York City. The university suspended two student organizations, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voices for Peace, for violating university policies. / Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images CNA Staff, Jan…
Father Mike Schmitz preaches the homily while celebrating Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City before a Eucharistic procession through the streets Oct. 10, 2023. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno CNA Staff, Jan 12, 2024 / 15:10 pm (CNA). EWTN Radio announced this week that Father Mike Schmitz’s “Bible in a Year” and “Catechism…
Pope Francis embraces Vinicio Riva after the general audience on Nov. 6, 2013. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 12, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Vinicio Riva, an Italian man who suffered from a rare condition and whose moving encounter with Pope Francis after a general audience at the Vatican in 2013 was…
People attend a rally for the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the U.N. headquarters on Jan. 12, 2024, in New York City. / Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images CNA Staff, Jan 12, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA). As the Israel-Hamas war nears its 100-day mark, well over 100…
Pope Francis meets with representatives of DIALOP, Transversal Dialogue Project, an association of European leftist politicians and academics that seeks to bridge Catholic social teaching and Marxist theory, on Jan. 10, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 12, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis this week called for cooperation between…
St. Arcadius. / Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 12, 2024 / 09:45 am (CNA). On Jan. 12, the Church honors the feast days for several martyrs and groups of martyrs at a time in which Christians still face persecution and the threat of martyrdom at the hands of authoritarian governments…
St. Marguerite Bourgeoys by Pierre Le Ber. / Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 12, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Every Jan. 12 the Church celebrates St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, CND, a 17th-century French nun who worked as a missionary and teacher in Canada. She was the foundress of the Congregation of…
Bishop Eric Moulins-Beaufort, president of the French Bishops’ Conference. / Credit: Bishopric of Reims and the Ardennes ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 11, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The Permanent Council of the French Bishops’ Conference has expressed its support for the Fiducia Supplicans declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on pastoral…
Argentine President Javier Milei formally invited Pope Francis to visit his homeland of Argentina in a Jan. 8, 2024, letter. / Credit: Office of the Argentine President X account; Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan 11, 2024 / 19:00 pm (CNA). The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has sent Pope Francis a formal invitation…
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). / Credit: François-Régis Salefran, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 11, 2024 / 14:25 pm (CNA). In response to new Vatican guidelines permitting nonliturgical pastoral blessings of homosexual couples, the bishops of Africa issued a united…
