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Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 4, 2023 / 19:00 pm (CNA). After California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his role as speaker of the House in a surprise vote Tuesday, Republicans in the House of […]

Church of the Society of Jesus in Cochabamba, Bolivia. / Credit: Archdiocese of Cochabamba ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 4, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) described as “senseless” a lawsuit filed on Oct. 2 by a group of former students of the John XXIII School in Bolivia against […]

Collapse of the Parish of the Holy Cross in Tamaulipas, Mexico, Oct. 1, 2023. / Credit: Civil Protection Tamaulipas ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 4, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Eleven people died and 60 were injured when the roof of Holy Cross Church in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, suddenly […]

Synod on Synodality delegates in small groups listen to Pope Francis' guidance for the upcoming weeks on Oct. 4, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 4, 2023 / 17:25 pm (CNA). Pope Francis in his opening remarks for the Synod on Synodality on Wednesday offered guidance to […]

Assisi | Oct. 4, 2023: The faithful gather to celebrate the feast of St. Francis of Assisi in Assisi, Italy. / Sala Stampa Sacro Convento Assisi CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2023 / 17:06 pm (CNA). On the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the faithful gathered at the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, to […]

Pope Francis at the Synod on Synodality, Oct. 4, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez Vatican City, Oct 4, 2023 / 17:03 pm (CNA). On the opening day of the Synod on Synodality, a leading official of the process urged participants to read “the signs of the times” in order to “discover a grammar of […]

Mother Teresa around the year 1994. / L'Osservatore Romano. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 4, 2023 / 16:36 pm (CNA). The chief promoter of St. Teresa of Calcutta’s cause for canonization says a new film about the beloved saint is hampered by “grave errors” in how its producers approached the […]

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to the his supporters during a political event organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the GMIT College Grounds on March 25, 2023, in Davangere, India. / Credit: Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images Thrissur, India, Oct 4, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA). An […]

St. Peter’s Square was illuminated by candlelight the night of Saturday, May 20, 2023, as pilgrims prayed the rosary in a procession in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 4, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA). St. Peter’s Basilica has extended its usual hours […]

Youth adore Christ in the Eucharist at the "Journey: Why did they come?" youth rally on St. Clements Island, Maryland, Sept. 30, 2023. The altar used during the rally was specially made by local craftsmen to be used for Masses on the island. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct […]

null / felipe caparros/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 4, 2023 / 11:55 am (CNA). The state of Florida executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday evening after pleas from Catholic bishops and other anti-death-penalty advocates fell on deaf ears. Michael Zack III, 54, was executed by […]

Antonia Salzano, Carlo Acutis' mother, and Bishop David O'Connell speak to schoolchildren at the blessing of the Carlo Acutis shrine at St. Dominic Parish in Brick, New Jersey. Oct 1, 2023. / Credit: Thomas P. Costello II Trenton, N.J., Oct 4, 2023 / 11:25 am (CNA). The faith community of St. […]

Senator-Delegate Laphonza Butler meets with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in his office on Capitol Hill on Oct. 3, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Butler was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to the vacant Senate seat of California following the passing of Dianne Feinstein. / Credit: Anna Rose […]

Cardinal Joseph Zen preaches a sermon during a Mass at the Holy Cross Church on May 24, 2022, in Hong Kong, China. / Anthony Kwan/Getty Images CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2023 / 08:50 am (CNA). Just days before the Synod on Synodality kicked off its first round of meetings at the Vatican, a letter from […]

Pope Francis smiles during his general audience in St. Peter's Square Sept. 27, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2023 / 06:03 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday released a new document on the environment that he has described as the “second part” of his 2015 encyclical Laudato […]

The opening Mass of the Synod on Synodality in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 4, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 4, 2023 / 04:15 am (CNA). Pope Francis opened the Synod on Synodality’s three-week assembly on Wednesday with a call to remember that the Church exists to bring Jesus to the […]

A young alpha male wolf (Canis lupus), looks for food in the Finnish taiga in Hukkajarvi area, Eastern Finland near Russian border, on July 5, 2023. / Credit: OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). In the Italian town of Gubbio, some 130 miles north of Rome, […]

null / Credit: Loves the other way around / Cathopic ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 3, 2023 / 18:50 pm (CNA). Cristóbal Ascencio García, the bishop of Apatzingán, located in one of the regions most affected by violence in the Mexican state of Michoacán, called for an “intense” day of fasting and […]

(From left to right) Father Julio Ricardo Norori, Father Iván Centeno, and Father Cristóbal Gadea were arrested Oct. 1, 2023, by the Nicaraguan government. / Credit: San Juan Evangelista Parish of San Juan del Río Coco, Madriz / Divina Providencia Jalapa Parish, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua / […]

Students participate in the Ohio March for Life in Columbus, Oct. 5, 2022. / Courtesy of March for Life. CNA Staff, Oct 3, 2023 / 18:15 pm (CNA). An estimated 5,000 Ohioans will be marching for life this Friday in the state’s capital of Columbus just one month ahead of a November election that […]

Vandalism of a pro-life display outside St. Paul Catholic Church in Fenton, Missouri, on Oct. 3, 2023. / Katherine Burns St. Louis, Mo., Oct 3, 2023 / 17:55 pm (CNA). A pro-life display at a St. Louis-area Catholic parish was defaced with red paint sometime between Oct. 2-3. Parishioners […]

Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, speaks at Philadelphia’s Eucharistic Congress on Sept. 30, 2023.  / Credit: Sarah Webb/Archdiocese of Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 3, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA). Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, […]

Refugees load a truck in Goris on Sept. 26, 2023, before leaving to Yerevan. A continuous stream of vehicles crept along the only road out of Nagorno-Karabakh toward Armenia, carrying tens of thousands of refugees now faced with an uncertain future. / Credit: ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images CNA […]

null / _Nezemnaya_ (CC BY-ND 2.0). CNA Staff, Oct 3, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA). Idaho can now fully enforce its ban on abortion after a U.S. appeals court ruled last week that a provision in the state’s law related to medical emergencies does not conflict with a federal law, the 1986 Emergency […]

Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals from across the world at the Saturday morning, Sept. 30, 2023, consistory in St. Peter’s Square. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 3, 2023 / 15:44 pm (CNA). Just days before the start of the first monthlong assembly of the Synod on Synodality, Pope […]

Post Francis' post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia in Vatican City on April 8, 2016. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 3, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The Vatican on Monday publicly released responses to 10 “dubia” submitted by Czech Cardinal Dominik Duka regarding “the […]

Bishop Gregory Mansour of the Maronite Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 3, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). As a prelate whose Eastern Church is governed by synods, Maronite Bishop Gregory Mansour of the Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn has offered a vision of the […]

Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz as Mother Teresa of Calcutta in the new film "Mother Teresa and Me." / Photo credit: Curry Western Movies CNA Staff, Oct 3, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA). A new movie weaves together the lives of two women experiencing self-doubt, but, in the end, both women meet the challenge […]

Bishop Robert Barron speaks to tens of thousands of young people at a World Youth Day gathering in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 2, 2023. / Credit: Nuria Chiccon/EWTN News Winona, Minn., Oct 3, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA). Editor’s note: This article was published at Word on Fire on Sept. 26, 2023, and […]

null / Credit: Pexels ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 3, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA). As part of the investigation into alleged pedophilia committed by Jesuit priests in Bolivia, the commission of prosecutors in charge of the cases has requested reports from the Vatican.Mauricio Nava Morales, prosecutor for the […]

null / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 3, 2023 / 09:40 am (CNA). The National Eucharistic Congress on Monday opened its application form for young people to apply to become “perpetual pilgrims” during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, which kicks off during summer 2024.The […]

Czech Cardinal Dominik Duka speaks at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 10, 2021. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Oct 2, 2023 / 19:48 pm (CNA). On a day dominated by news of five cardinals publishing a set of “dubia” to Pope Francis and the Vatican […]

The Christian community in Qaraqosh, in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, was devastated last week after a fire broke out at a Syriac Catholic wedding celebration. / Credit: Rody Sher/ ACI MENA CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 18:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis sent his condolences on Saturday to an Iraqi Christian […]

Father James Martin, SJ. / Credit: Shawn's Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). Jesuit Father James Martin, who will attend the first session of the Synod on Synodality as a participant appointed by Pope Francis, said that “without a doubt, there are many chaste […]

Kevin Birmingham, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, passed away in his sleep Oct. 2, 2023, at age 51. / Credit: Archdiocese of Chicago CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 17:55 pm (CNA). Kevin Birmingham, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, passed away in his sleep last night, […]

null / Mazur/cbcew.org.uk. CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 17:35 pm (CNA). An annual Requiem Mass that has been held at Westminster Cathedral in London, England, for more than 50 years has been relocated amid the continued restrictions on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass issued by the […]

The exterior of the new St. Isidore's Catholic Student Center at Kansas State University. / Credit: Jacob Bentzinger CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA). There’s a quote from Jerome Tang, head coach of the Kansas State University (KSU) basketball team, that Father Gale Hammerschmidt […]

Tampico Bishop José Armando Alvarez said in a statement on social media Oct. 1, 2023, that “the roof of the parish of Holy Cross” collapsed while parishioners were “celebrating the baptism of their children.” / Credit: Facebook de la Parroquia de la Santa Cruz CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / […]

Left to right: German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, Mexican Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, American Cardinal Raymond Burke, and Chinese Cardinal Zen Ze-Kiun. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA; Intermirifica.net; Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 16:35 pm […]

Cardinal-elect Víctor Manuel Fernández was appointed by Pope Francis on July 1, 2023, to become the next prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdiocese of La Plata Vatican City, Oct 2, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA). The Vatican has released Pope Francis’ […]

Father Timothy Radcliffe addresses the bishops of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. / Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk Vatican City, Oct 2, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA). During a retreat for participants in the Synod on Synodality assembly this week, delegates were urged to listen to one another […]

null / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 14:46 pm (CNA). Five cardinals have sent a set of questions known as “dubia” to Pope Francis to express their concerns and seek clarification on points of doctrine and discipline ahead of this week’s opening of the Synod on Synodality at the […]

Argentine Leda Bergonzi at one of her “Breath of the Living God” prayer meetings. / Credit: Instagram of Breath of the Living God ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 12:10 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Rosario in Argentina issued a statement on its website Sept. 26 regarding the ecclesial ministry […]

null / Credit: TTstudio/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Oct 2, 2023 / 11:50 am (CNA). The publication of a new set of questions addressed to Pope Francis by five longtime cardinals has once again turned the focus of Catholics to the place of “dubia” in the life of the Church.What […]

Posters against the 40 Days for Life campaign in Madrid, Spain, found on Sept. 27, 2023. / Credit: 40 Days for Life Spain ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA). Wednesday, Sept. 27, marked the beginning of the 40 Days for Life fall campaign, which will run through Nov. 5, and abortion […]

Credit: Petra Homeier/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). During the month of October, the Catholic Church celebrates guardian angels. Guardian angels are instruments of providence who help protect their charges from suffering serious harm and assist them on the path of […]

Statue of St. Peter in front of St. Peter's Basilica. / Credit: Vatican Media National Catholic Register, Oct 2, 2023 / 02:34 am (CNA). Five cardinals have sent a set of questions to Pope Francis to express their concerns and seek clarification on points of doctrine and discipline ahead of this […]

A man prays the rosary during a daylong event on Sept. 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C., focused on praying and reflecting on the rosary to conclude a nine-month rosary novena. / Credit: George Goss Washington D.C., Oct 1, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA). A few thousand Catholics joined Dominican priests and […]

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 1, 2023 / 14:34 pm (CNA). Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican’s new chief of doctrine, predicts that “those who expect big changes” to come out of this month’s Synod of Bishops will […]

Five children representing five continents speak with Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on Oct. 1, 2023. The pope will hold a meeting with children at the Vatican on Nov. 6, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Oct 1, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Sunday […]