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  • Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election could determine future of state abortion ban
    on March 31, 2023 at 12:00 pm

    null / Credit: Aditya Romansa/Unsplash St. Louis, Mo., Mar 31, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). The 2023 Wisconsin judicial race, which might have remained obscure in other years even within Wisconsin, is garnering national media attention and record fundraising numbers for the candidates. Here’s what […]

  • Vatican: Pope Francis had pizza dinner, may leave hospital tomorrow
    on March 31, 2023 at 11:25 am

    Pope Francis' General Audience in St. Peter's Square on March 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 31, 2023 / 05:25 am (CNA). The Vatican said Friday that Pope Francis may be discharged from the hospital on Saturday, after responding well to treatments yesterday and sharing a pizza […]

  • Spanish bishops deliver six volumes of information on sex abuse cases to ombudsman
    on March 30, 2023 at 8:30 pm

    Cardinal Juan José Omella, the archbishop of Barcelona, Spain, and Spain's Ombudsman Ángel Gabilondo. / Credit: CEE ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 30, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). The president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE), Cardinal Juan José Omella, has handed over to the people’s ombudsman, […]

  • U.S. and Canadian bishops join Vatican’s condemnation of colonialist ‘doctrine of discovery’
    on March 30, 2023 at 8:00 pm

    Pope Francis address representatives of Canada's indigenous peoples at the archbishop's residence in Québec City. / Vatican Media Washington D.C., Mar 30, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The U.S. and Canadian bishops released statements Thursday praising the Vatican’s repudiation of the “doctrine of […]

  • Vatican’s liturgy czar rejects German Church’s plans for laity to preach homilies, conduct baptisms
    on March 30, 2023 at 7:30 pm

    Archbishop Arthur Roche at a Vatican press conference on Feb. 10, 2015. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA. CNA Newsroom, Mar 30, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s liturgy czar has intervened against the implementation of resolutions of the German Synodal Way that demand laypeople should be able to […]

  • UPDATE: Pope Francis has bronchitis but is resting and improving, Vatican says
    on March 30, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Pope Francis speaks at his general audience in St. Peter's Square on March 29, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media St. Louis, Mo., Mar 30, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis is exhibiting “marked improvement” after being admitted to the hospital on Wednesday with difficulty breathing, which was […]

  • Tabernacle stolen from murdered Bishop David O’Connell’s residence
    on March 30, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    Bishop David O'Connell. / Credit: KTLA screenshot Boston, Mass., Mar 30, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA). An empty tabernacle that was bolted to the wall has been stolen from the residence of the late Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, who was murdered in his Hacienda Heights, California, home […]

  • Witnesses tell House panel that speech is being silenced on college campuses 
    on March 30, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    null / zimmytws/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Mar 30, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA). A scholar whose talk was shut down at a university and a student who witnessed the silencing of speech on campus recounted their experiences at a U.S. House subcommittee on Wednesday. Manhattan Institute scholar Ilya […]

  • Meet the new president of the European bishops’ commission
    on March 30, 2023 at 5:30 pm

    Bishop Mariano Crociata meets with Pope Francis on March 23, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 30, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA). Last week the European bishops elected the new president of their commission, Italian Bishop Mariano Crociata.Crociata, who leads the Catholic Diocese of Latina […]

  • Bishops lament ‘terrible tragedy’ that left at least 38 migrants dead in Mexico
    on March 30, 2023 at 5:00 pm

    Migrants wake up after spending the night outside the immigration detention center where at least 38 migrants died during a fire in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on March 29, 2023. / Credit: Photo by Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 30, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA). […]

  • This is Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month of April
    on March 30, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Pope Francis prays in St. Peter's Square on March 8, 2023. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 30, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA). In the month of April, Pope Francis has asked the world to pray in a special way for a culture of nonviolence and peace.“Living, speaking, and acting without violence is not […]

  • U.S. bishops ask for prayer for pope’s quick recovery
    on March 30, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    Pope Francis' General Audience in St. Peter's Square on March 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Washington D.C., Mar 30, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). Following news of Pope Francis’ hospitalization on Wednesday, U.S. bishops asked for prayer for the pontiff’s quick recovery.“On behalf of my brother […]

  • In-person Mass attendance dips following pandemic, study suggests
    on March 30, 2023 at 3:00 pm

    null / Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Mar 30, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). The results of a new study from the Pew Research Center show that in-person Mass attendance among Catholics has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, and only about 4 in 10 U.S. Catholics say they attend Mass in person as often […]

  • Cardinal O’Malley ‘surprised, disappointed’ by abuse expert’s criticism of Vatican commission
    on March 30, 2023 at 1:30 pm

    Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 30, 2023 / 07:30 am (CNA). Cardinal Sean O’Malley said Thursday he strongly disagrees with a critique of the Vatican’s safeguarding commission by abuse expert and recently resigned member Father Hans Zollner.In a new […]

  • Update: Pope Francis rested well, continuing treatment in hospital, Vatican says
    on March 30, 2023 at 10:47 am

    Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on March 8, 2023. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome, Italy, Mar 30, 2023 / 04:47 am (CNA). Pope Francis will continue to receive treatment after being hospitalized for a respiratory infection on Wednesday, a Vatican spokesman said Thursday.“His Holiness Pope Francis […]

  • Vatican: ‘Doctrine of discovery’ is not Catholic teaching
    on March 30, 2023 at 10:03 am

    Pope Francis started his Canada trip by visiting the cemetery and chapel of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Maskwacis, Alberta, on July 25, 2022. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 30, 2023 / 04:03 am (CNA). Two Vatican departments issued a joint statement Thursday on the “doctrine of discovery” […]

  • Jesuits in Mexico issue statement on the death of alleged murderer of two priests
    on March 29, 2023 at 10:00 pm

    Funeral of Fathers Javier Campos Morales, SJ, and Joaquín César Mora Salazar, SJ, in June 2022. / Credit: Society of Jesus Mexico ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 29, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Forensic experts have identified a body found shot to death March 22 in Sinaloa state, Mexico, as that of José […]

  • Pope Francis’ health: Here’s a timeline of his medical issues in recent years
    on March 29, 2023 at 9:30 pm

    Pope Francis enters the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall in a wheelchair on May 5, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, Mar 29, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis will be hospitalized for “some days” after being diagnosed with a respiratory infection, the Vatican said Wednesday.The 86-year-old […]

  • Arrest made in firebombing of pro-life organization thanks to DNA found on burrito
    on March 29, 2023 at 9:00 pm

    Wisconsin Family Action was attacked with two Molotov cocktails in May 2022. / YouTube/Madison.com Boston, Mass., Mar 29, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA). A Wisconsin man was arrested and charged with violating federal law in connection with the May 2022 firebombing of a pro-life organization’s Madison […]

  • Pope Francis hospitalized with a respiratory infection, Vatican says
    on March 29, 2023 at 7:24 pm

    Pope Francis speaks at his general audience in St. Peter's Square on March 29, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 29, 2023 / 13:24 pm (CNA). Pope Francis will be hospitalized for “some days” after being diagnosed with a respiratory infection, the Vatican said Wednesday. “In […]

  • Report finds 28 credible child sex abuse claims of Georgia priests in last 70 years
    on March 29, 2023 at 5:40 pm

    Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta. / Credit: JJonahJackalope, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 29, 2023 / 11:40 am (CNA). A new report says that 28 Catholic priests have faced credible child sex abuse allegations while serving in Georgia since the 1940s. […]

  • Shia LaBeouf stars in ‘Padre Pio’ film to be released June 2
    on March 29, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Shia LaBeouf and Brother Alexander Rodriguez, a real Franciscan friar who makes an appearance in the film, are close friends in real life. / Br. Alexander Rodriguez Boston, Mass., Mar 29, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA). A new movie about St. Padre Pio, starring Catholic convert Shia LaBeouf will be […]

  • Abuse expert leaves Vatican commission for protection of minors, citing concerns
    on March 29, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    Father Hans Zollner. / Rebecski CC 4.0 Rome Newsroom, Mar 29, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, an internationally-renowned expert in protecting children and vulnerable adults from clerical sex abuse, has resigned from his position on the Vatican’s safeguarding commission.The […]

  • Vatican: Pope Francis at Rome hospital to undergo checkups
    on March 29, 2023 at 2:57 pm

    Pope Francis, seated in a wheelchair, greets a child during the pope's general audience at the Vatican on Jan. 25, 2023. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 29, 2023 / 08:57 am (CNA). Pope Francis has been undergoing some medical checkups at one of Rome’s most prominent hospitals since Wednesday […]

  • Pope Francis: ‘The true Christian is one who receives Jesus within’
    on March 29, 2023 at 12:00 pm

    Pope Francis' General Audience in St. Peter's Square on March 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Mar 29, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday spoke against a comfortable Christianity that keeps Jesus at arm’s length rather than inviting him into the heart to change it.“If […]

  • Pope Francis mourns ‘senseless act of violence’ at Nashville Christian school
    on March 29, 2023 at 11:27 am

    null / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, Mar 29, 2023 / 05:27 am (CNA). Pope Francis has expressed his sorrow over a shooting at a private Presbyterian Christian school in Nashville.A person took the lives of three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members at Covenant School March 27 […]

  • U.S. House passes bill to combat forced organ harvesting
    on March 28, 2023 at 9:10 pm

    null / Credit: life_in_a_pixel/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Mar 28, 2023 / 15:10 pm (CNA). On Monday night the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would impose sanctions and penalties on individuals involved in the forced harvesting of human organs.The bill, authored by Catholic […]

  • Police: Shooter at Nashville Christian school was former student, had ‘manifesto’
    on March 28, 2023 at 8:50 pm

    A woman prays at a makeshift memorial for victims outside the Covenant School building at the Covenant Presbyterian Church on March 28, 2023, following the March 27, 2023, shooting at the school in Nashville, Tennessee. / Credit: Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Washington D.C., […]

  • Latin America celebrates Day of the Unborn Child with pro-life marches in several countries
    on March 28, 2023 at 8:30 pm

    Thousands participated in the March for Life in Lima, Peru, on Saturday, March 25, 2023. / Credit: David Lizarzaburo/March for Life ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). March 25, the solemnity of the Annunciation and the Incarnation of Christ in the womb of the Virgin Mary, is […]

  • Religion, patriotism, and having children diminish in importance for Americans: WSJ poll
    on March 28, 2023 at 7:45 pm

    null / Public Domain St. Louis, Mo., Mar 28, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA). A new poll of U.S. residents suggests that certain values such as religiosity and having children have receded in importance over the past 25 years, while people’s opinion of the importance of money increased during the same […]

  • Cardinal Hollerich: There’s ‘space to expand’ Church teaching on all-male priesthood
    on March 28, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, speaking at a press conference in the Vatican on Aug. 26, 2022. / Vatican News YouTube Channel Rome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the archbishop of Luxembourg and a key leader of the Synod on Synodality, said the […]

  • ‘For love of the pope’: Latin Mass supporters post billboards near Vatican
    on March 28, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    A group of Traditional Latin Mass supporters in Italy posted signs as part of a billboard campaign in a neighborhood near the Vatican on March 28, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA). A group of Traditional Latin Mass supporters in Italy has sponsored a […]

  • Colorado proposes radically expanding abortion access in the state — again
    on March 28, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    Colorado State Capitol. / f11photo / Shutterstock. Washington D.C., Mar 28, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA). The Colorado state Senate last week passed a three-bill “Safe Access to Protected Health Care” package that would radically expand abortion access in the state.The package now advances to the […]

  • Bishops to Biden administration: Keep in place federal rules to protect college religious groups
    on March 28, 2023 at 5:30 pm

    null / Credit: NaruFoto/Shutterstock Denver, Colo., Mar 28, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA). Religious student groups on many college and university campuses will lose key federal protections for their ability to organize on campus and set their own standards for leaders if the Biden administration’s […]

  • Nicaraguans respond to ‘staged’ prison interview with Bishop Álvarez
    on March 28, 2023 at 3:15 pm

    Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CC BY-SA 4.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA). The auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, who lives in exile in the United States, called the Daniel Ortega dictatorship’s staging […]

  • Catholic charity rescues 20 Afghan girls after ISIS attack
    on March 28, 2023 at 3:08 pm

    The Vulnerable People Project, a Catholic charity based in the United States, is helping 20 teenage Afghan girls build a new life after an ISIS terrorist attack on Sept. 30, 2022, left them seriously injured and in dire need of medical treatment. / Credit: Vulnerable People Project Washington […]

  • Arrest made in vandalism of New York pregnancy center
    on March 28, 2023 at 2:13 pm

    null / ArtOlympic / Shutterstock. Boston, Mass., Mar 28, 2023 / 08:13 am (CNA). An arrest has been made in the March 16 act of vandalism committed at a pro-life pregnancy center in Amherst, New York, the same clinic that was seriously damaged in an arson attack in June 2022.Although perpetrators […]

  • Guam Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes steps down for medical reasons
    on March 28, 2023 at 10:55 am

    Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes / Archdiocese of Detroit. Rome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 04:55 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes of Agaña, Guam. Byrnes, 64, has led the Catholic Church on the U.S. island territory since the 2019 conviction of […]

  • PHOTOS: Pro-life marchers in NYC dodge garbage, weather, and counter-protesters
    on March 27, 2023 at 11:05 pm

    Michael Phelps of Good Counsel Homes prays the rosary with others as they pass Trinity Church in the shadow of the Freedom Tower in Lower Manhattan on March 25, 2023. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Mar 27, 2023 / 17:05 pm (CNA). Pro-abortion protesters attempted to disrupt a prayerful […]

  • More than 10,000 expected for New York Eucharistic Congress in October
    on March 27, 2023 at 10:23 pm

    Eucharistic adoration at the SLS18 conference in Chicago. / FOCUS. Denver, Colo., Mar 27, 2023 / 16:23 pm (CNA). A statewide New York Eucharistic Congress will take place Oct. 20-22 at the shrine that marks the martyrdom site of three North American martyrs and the birthplace of St. Kateri […]

  • Imprisoned Nicaraguan Bishop Álvarez appears in video posted by dictatorship
    on March 27, 2023 at 7:30 pm

    Bishop Rolando Álvarez in "La Modelo" prison, March 25, 2023. / Credit: Courtesy ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 27, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). El 19 Digital, a news media outlet supportive of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, posted a video of Bishop Rolando Álvarez in which he shares a few […]

  • Nashville police fatally shoot woman who killed 3 students, 3 staff at Christian school
    on March 27, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    School buses with children arrive at Woodmont Baptist Church to be reunited with their families after a mass shooting at The Covenant School on March 27, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee. According to initial reports, three students and three adults were killed by the shooter, a 28-year-old woman. The […]

  • Courageous grandmother who led fight to stop removal of cross from plaza in Spain dies
    on March 27, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    Teresa Agulló, defender of the Cross of Callosa de Segura in Spain. / Credit: Platform in Defense of the Cross of Callosa de Segura ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 27, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA). Teresa Agulló Cayuelas, a woman who was fined for her efforts to prevent the removal of an emblematic cross in […]

  • Pope Francis to bless satellite set to launch his words into space
    on March 27, 2023 at 4:30 pm

    Pope Francis gives an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica March 27, 2020. / Vatican Media. Rome Newsroom, Mar 27, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday will bless a satellite that will launch his words into space on June 10.The “Spes […]

  • Pope Francis: An ethical AI respects human dignity
    on March 27, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Pope Francis meets with participants of the Minerva Dialogues — a meeting of scientists, engineers, business leaders, lawyers, philosophers, Catholic theologians, ethicists, and members of the Roman Curia to discuss digital technologies — at the Vatican on March 27, 2023. / Credit: Vatican […]

  • Social media apostolate brings the beauty of Rome’s historic churches to Instagram
    on March 27, 2023 at 1:53 pm

    The Roman Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem. / Credit: Jacob Stein/Crux Stationalis Rome Newsroom, Mar 27, 2023 / 07:53 am (CNA). While many people choose to give up social media for Lent, one Catholic man is uploading new videos online every day to share the stories of the early Christian […]

  • Priest reports possible eucharistic miracle at Connecticut church
    on March 26, 2023 at 5:20 pm

    null / Sidney de Almeida / Shutterstock Washington D.C., Mar 26, 2023 / 11:20 am (CNA). A local Connecticut television station reported that the Archdiocese of Hartford is investigating a possible eucharistic miracle that may have taken place during the celebration of the Mass at St. Thomas […]

  • ‘Rise again’: Jesus gives life when hope seems lost, Pope Francis says
    on March 26, 2023 at 2:01 pm

    Pope Francis delivers his Angelus reflection from the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on March 26, 2023. / Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Mar 26, 2023 / 08:01 am (CNA). On the fifth Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis challenged the faithful to do as they did when they were little children learning how to […]

  • Marianists in Spain under fire for lack of transparency regarding sex ed program
    on March 26, 2023 at 2:00 pm

    null / Credit: Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 26, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). Parents of students at a Marianist school in Spain expressed their “stark distrust” in the Marianists and in their sex ed program “Crea2 para amar” (Created to Love) after a tense meeting in which they were denied […]

  • Pope Francis, Mississippi bishop offer prayers for victims of deadly tornado
    on March 26, 2023 at 1:20 pm

    Damage from a series of powerful storms and at least one tornado is seen on March 25, 2023 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. At least 26 people have reportedly been killed with dozens more injured following devastating storms across western Mississippi and Alabama on the night of March 24, 2023. / Will […]