null / Credit: Yeti studio/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Oct 23, 2023 / 17:05 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Stockton, California, has issued a warning about a pair of imposters posing as Catholic clergymen in the city of Modesto and charging high fees for blessings and sacraments. The diocese said that two unidentified men are falsely using…

The Cross of San Lázaro of Seville, Spain, sculpted in the 16th century, was vandalized on the night of Oct. 21-22, 2023. / Credit: Emergencies Seville ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 23, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). A stone cross carved in the 16th century and placed on a pedestal in a public square next to…

Australian theologian Father Ormond Rush addresses the General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 23, 2023, in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall. / Credit: Vatican Media livestream Vatican City, Oct 23, 2023 / 14:44 pm (CNA). Vatican II’s discussion of tradition is the authority for the Synod on Synodality’s reflections today, a theologian…

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, on Oct. 20, 2023. / Credit: Gianfranco Pinto Ostuni Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 23, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, last week lamented the deaths of 18 Palestinians in a missile strike on the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrius…

Pope Francis delivers his Sunday Angelus message to about 20,000 faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 22, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 22, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). During Sunday’s Angelus address, Pope Francis spoke to the faithful on the importance of the correct relationship between the Church…