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Children sit together around a boy cooking instant noodles on a fire in a makeshift oven from a recycled barrel in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 31, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas. / Credit: MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA). The…
Borys Gudziak, archeparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. / Credit: Matt Cashore / Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 31, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA). The Catholic Church in Ukraine will face extermination if the Russian invasion is successful, leading Ukrainian Catholic bishops told CNA this…
Father Marko Rupnik / Courtesy of the Diocese of Rome ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 31, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA). A group of alleged victims of Father Marko Rupnik said Monday that Pope Francis’ decision to lift the statute of limitations on the case and order the opening of a new process against the priest…
Pope Francis at the Synod on Synodality’s closing Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ prayer intention of the month of November is for himself — the pope. “Pray to the Lord that he will bless me,” Pope Francis…
Workers distribute medical aid and medicines to Nasser Medical Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, which recently arrived through the Rafah crossing on Oct. 29, 2023, in Khan Yunis, Gaza. / Credit: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 31, 2023 / 13:11 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops recently…
Stained-glass window at the Cathedral Basilica in St. Louis. / Credit: Ella Manthey/Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Oct 31, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy has agreed to review the mergers of two Archdiocese of St. Louis parishes, which Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski had decreed in May as part of a major…
Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White was awarded the title of master of sacred theology by the Dominican Order. / Credit: The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA). Father Thomas Joseph White, a bestselling author, professor, and a core member of Dominican music group The Hillbilly Thomists,…
Happy everybody, Happy Halloween! In fact, let’s start there. There’s no way around it, today is Halloween, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. I know there are Catholics who are uncomfortable with the celebration of Halloween, but I’m not one of them. I love Halloween, actually. First, Halloween is obviously a liturgical holiday, preceding…
A still from the movie “Free.” / Credit: Bosco Films Rome Newsroom, Oct 31, 2023 / 10:27 am (CNA). A new documentary on Catholic religious life, filmed in some of Spain’s most beautiful and historic monasteries, will be shown in movie theaters across the U.S. for a one-night release on Nov. 2. “Free” is a…
Cardinal Mauro Piacenza. / Credit: PersiGianluigi (public domain) Rome Newsroom, Oct 31, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA). Peacemaking begins in our own hearts by reconciling with ourselves and God through the sacrament of confession, a Vatican cardinal said this week. As we remember the innocent people who are dying in war during these days, we…
