The Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, announced on June 29, 2025, a restructuring plan that will merge parishes in the face of a priest shortage. / Credit: Snehit Photo/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 10, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has announced a restructuring process as it faces a shortage…
Day by day, the times seem to grow more alarming. Wars and rumors of wars, geopolitical instability, the increasing presence of artificial intelligence and its unknown consequences, and a pervasive godlessness that necessitates divine justice all loom over our heads like an impending storm. A grim sense that things are going from bad to worse…
The Vatican, on July 3, approved a new votive Mass “for care of creation” which Pope Leo XIV celebrated for the first time on July 9. A follow-on from the Francis pontificate promulgated to mark the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, the new votive Mass has elicited a variety of contradictory responses. I’ll weigh in:…
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Diogo Jota of the Liverpool soccer team. / Credit: Spanish-language edition of EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 9, 2025 / 20:19 pm (CNA). In an atmosphere of deep recollection and sadness, but also of hope, the funeral of Portuguese soccer players Diogo Jota of the Liverpool Football Club and his brother André Silva, who…
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Canterbury Anglican Cathedral. / Credit: Antony McCallum WyrdLight.com/Wikimedia, CC BY SA 4.0 London, England, Jul 9, 2025 / 18:55 pm (CNA). For the first time in modern history, the apostolic nuncio to the United Kingdom has celebrated Mass in England’s most celebrated Anglican cathedral. On Monday, July 7, which marked the feast of the Translation…
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 9, 2025 / 18:25 pm (CNA). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has confirmed that the Catholic Church will not endorse political candidates for public office in any elections,…
