Category: News

Our Lady of Lourdes grotto, Lourdes, France. / Credit: Elise Harris/CNA CNA Staff, Feb 11, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. In Lourdes, France, in 1858, 13-year-old Bernadette Soubirous was collecting pieces of wood as part of her daily chores when she…

Parishioners attend a July 2024 Mass at St. Peter Church in Quincy, Illinois. / Credit: Randy Dickerman CNA Staff, Feb 10, 2025 / 17:40 pm (CNA). After years of uncertainty over whether in-person Mass attendance numbers would ever rebound after plummeting during the COVID-era lockdowns, new data suggests that Mass attendance levels have quietly returned…

Bishop Rolando Álvarez in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 10, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA). The Nicaraguan government has lashed out at the Vatican following an interview that Bishop Rolando Álvarez gave last week to the Spanish-language edition of EWTN News in Rome. “We are speaking out against statements made…

Pope Francis greets His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Wales at the canonization of St. John Henry Newman at the Vatican on Oct. 13, 2019. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 10, 2025 / 17:20 pm (CNA). Buckingham Palace announced in a Feb. 7 statement that King Charles and Queen Camilla of England will travel…