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Catholic priest in Nigeria released 40 days after abduction

May 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Felix Zakari Fidson, who was abducted in Nigeria’s Zaria diocese on March 24, 2022. / Courtesy Photo

Zaria, Nigeria, May 5, 2022 / 12:30 pm (CNA).
A Catholic diocese in Nigeria has announced “with joy” the release of a priest held captiv… […]

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Cardinal Becciu questioned on investments as his former deputy seeks damages

May 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

A hearing in the Vatican finance trial is held on Nov. 17, 2021. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 11:30 am (CNA).
Cardinal Angelo Becciu was questioned about investments during a hearing in the Vatican’s ongoing finance trial on Thu… […]

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Pope Francis encourages religious orders to ‘make their synodal journey’

May 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

Pope Francis meets participants in the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General on May 5, 2022. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 09:56 am (CNA).
After arriving in a wheelchair for a meeting with religious sis… […]

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Pope Francis merges 4 foundations into new Vatican hospitality body

May 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis is pictured outside the Casa Santa Marta on July 1, 2021. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 07:45 am (CNA).
Pope Francis issued a decree on Thursday merging four foundations into a new Vatican institution dedicated to ho… […]

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US Ambassador to the Holy See meets Ukrainian refugee born in bomb shelter

May 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Joe Donnelly, the new US ambassador to the Holy See, meets with Ukrainian refugees in Rome, Italy, on April 21, 2022. / US Embassy to the Holy See.

Rome, Italy, May 5, 2022 / 05:35 am (CNA).
Within weeks of his arrival in Rome, the new U.S. amb… […]

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Pope Francis uses wheelchair in public for first time since colon surgery

May 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Francis enters the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall in a wheelchair on May 5, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 04:50 am (CNA).
Pope Francis used a wheelchair during a public meeting on Thursday, the first time he has done so pu… […]

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World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2022: Pope Francis says ‘Church must become increasingly synodal’

May 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 7

Pope Francis lays hands on a Bangladeshi deacon as he ordains him to the priesthood during a Dec. 1, 2017, Mass in Dhaka. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis said on Thursday that “the Church must become in… […]

The Dispatch

What a new Saint and an old secularist can teach us about love of God and country

May 5, 2022 David Pinault 11

On May 15 the Catholic Church will canonize Père Charles de Foucauld, a missionary priest active in French Algeria just over a century ago. But his rank of sainthood comes with rancor. Critics of France’s […]

The Dispatch

Pope Francis makes puzzling remarks to Italian daily about Ukraine

May 4, 2022 Christopher R. Altieri 42

There’s been a bit of chatter about Pope Francis’s most recent interview in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera newspaper, but not as much as he or the folks at the Corriere probably wish there […]

Features

Trying to reach the sublime: Robert Eggers, cinematic poet of the past

May 4, 2022 Steven D. Greydanus 4

C.S. Lewis, in his preface to St. Athanasius’ On The Incarnation, wrote a brisk apologia for reading premodern authors, later published under the title “On the Reading of Old Books.” Lewis’s simple thesis is that […]

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