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Signs of hope and renewal amid the dramatic decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland

March 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

A statue of the Virgin Mary on the grounds of the 15th-century Quin Abbey in County Clare, Ireland. / Patrick Leonard/EWTN

Loughmourne, Ireland, Mar 17, 2023 / 08:32 am (CNA).
Father Owen Gorman remembers when Masses in Ireland were so crowded … […]

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How the Irish monks and saints helped save Europe

March 16, 2023 Father Seán Connolly 44

Only Ireland, on the outer fringe of Western Europe, was left unconquered by the mighty Roman Empire. The weather was too rough (the Romans referred to the island as “Hibernia, Land of Winter”), and its […]

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Thinking of Ireland on Saint Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2023 Joseph Pearce 9

When I think of my mother’s death … worn out with persecution, poverty, and, largely consequent, disease, in the effort to hand on to us small boys the Faith … I find it very hard […]

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How the Salesians are helping youth in Syria, a country in its 12th year of civil war

March 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Young Salesians in Syria. / Credit: Salesian ANS

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 16, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
March 15 marked the 12th year of civil war in Syria, where bombs, poverty, and earthquakes have destroyed the country. Nevertheless, the Salesians… […]

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Church in Spain has fewer than 1,000 diocesan seminarians for first time in 21 years

March 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 16, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
Spanish seminaries continue to suffer a downward trend in enrollment. According to official data from the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, in the 2022-2023 ac… […]

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Here’s why a popular canon law website will have to remove much of its content

March 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 6

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Washington D.C., Mar 16, 2023 / 16:35 pm (CNA).
A popular canon law website, CanonLaw.Ninja, is removing much of its content by Friday, March 17, to comply with a copyright complaint, which will lea… […]

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Texas lawmakers propose making illegal immigration a felony

March 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Migrants, mostly of Venezuelan origin, attempt to forcibly cross into the United States at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on March 12, 2023. / Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images

Was… […]

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UK bishops say law criminalizing prayer outside of abortion clinics is discriminatory

March 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Sean Gough, a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, England, faced criminal charges for praying for free speech outside an abortion clinic after business hours in violation of a strict buffer zone law in the English city of Bi… […]

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Facing hundreds of sex abuse lawsuits, Albany Diocese to declare bankruptcy

March 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 4

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, NY. / Drew Proto via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Denver, Colo., Mar 16, 2023 / 09:47 am (CNA).
The Catholic Diocese of Albany has decided to file for bankruptcy, saying a financial reorganization … […]

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Called by God from childhood, triplets from Brazil belong to the same religious order

March 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Triplets María Gorete dos Santos, María de Lourdes dos Santos, and María Aparecida dos Santos, 57, are all nuns belonging to the Franciscan Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. / Credit: Courtesy of Sister María Gorete dos Santos

CNA News… […]

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