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Today the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Annunciation. It’s typically celebrated on March 25, unless it falls during Holy Week, by which it is superseded. The day celebrates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce the Incarnation. Here are eight things to know and to share about the feast…
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the former general relator of the Synod on Synodality, has publicly called for the ordination of women, arguing that the Church cannot long endure if half of the people of God lacks access to ordained ministry. “I cannot imagine in the long run how a Church can survive if half of…
On March 19, Albanian Cardinal Ernest Simoni at the age of 97 was among the last people to venerate the remains of St. Francis of Assisi before their return to a tomb in the crypt of the 13th-century Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, where the saint’s small skeleton has been contained in a…
The conservative legal group Judicial Watch is continuing to push for more transparency around a memo targeting traditionalist Catholics, which was issued in early 2023 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Richmond field office. The memo detailed an investigation into a purported connection between “radical traditionalist” Catholics and “the far-right white nationalist movement.” It…
The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether asylum starts at a port of entry or only after someone steps onto U.S. soil under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The justices, hearing arguments March 24 in Noem v. Al Otro Lado, painstakingly interrogated the legal and linguistic meaning of “arrives in” and “arrives at,” with Chief…
The Loyola University Chicago student who was shot and killed last week was a “beautiful person” and a “genuine soul,” campus leaders said amid mourning over the 18-year-old’s murder. Sheridan Gorman was shot and killed early on March 19 while walking with her friends near the Jesuit university’s campus, officials said last week. Law enforcement…
A conference will highlight Orestes Brownson with the hopes of making him “a household name” among Catholics, organizers said. The “Orestes Brownson and the Mission of America” conference will be held at The Catholic University of America (CUA) on April 16 for “all those seeking a vision of the United States to carry us into…
Representatives of the International Association of Exorcists (AIE) have asked Pope Leo XIV to ensure that every Catholic diocese worldwide has “one or more” trained exorcists, citing what they describe as a rise in cases linked to occult practices and spiritual distress. The request was made during a private audience March 13 at the Vatican’s…
Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, said that remembering and honoring the Holocaust is essential to combating rising antisemitism worldwide. Dayan, who met with Pope Leo XIV on March 23 together with Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See, Yaron Sideman, said their conversation focused on “two issues: the historical remembrance, the need to remember, to…
LAHORE, Pakistan — Every year during Lent, Sunil Masih remembers his elder brother as churches in Youhanabad — Lahore’s largest squatter settlement for poor Christians — mark the anniversary of the 2015 church bombings. The four Catholic brothers were among more than 150 Christians arrested by police days after twin suicide attacks on St. John’s…
