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The Holy Family points the human family to the Heavenly Family
On the Readings for Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph […]
Month: December 2023
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What countries did Pope Francis visit in 2023 and what did he say?
Pope Francis waves at the crowd of 1.5 million people who attended the closing Mass of World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal on Aug. 6, 2023. / Vatican Media.
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 30, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis maintained … […]
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Catholics continue to rally around Afghan refugee families in St. Louis
Children of Afghan immigrants to St. Louis play during a holiday party on Dec. 9, 2023. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA
St. Louis, Mo., Dec 30, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Despite dominating the news cycle for months in 2021, the fall of Afghanistan to … […]
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Chris Christie ties his shift on gay marriage to Vatican ruling on same-sex blessings
GOP Presidential Candidate Chris Christie at a town Hall in Bedford, New Hampshire on Dec. 19, 2023. / Credit: Sophie Park/Getty Images
CNA Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, once an opponent… […]
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Four priests arrested in 2 days by Nicaraguan dictatorship
Cathedral of Managua, Nicaragua. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
President Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship in Nicaragua has arrested three more priests: Monsignor Carlos Avilés, vicar general of the Arc… […]
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EWTN to air conference on Pope Benedict XVI one year after his death
Pope Benedict XVI on May 11, 2010. / Credit: Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk
Rome Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
One year after the death of Pope Benedict XVI, scholars, experts, and friends of the late pontiff will meet in Rome on Dec… […]
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From hatred to love: Christmas reflections of a Muslim convert to Catholicism
Zubair Simonson, OFS, is a convert who was raised Muslim. / Credit: The Journey Home/EWTN Global Catholic Network
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA).
Christmas is a time of reconciliation. God himself chose to become a man, coming … […]
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Pope Francis urges young adults at Taizé event to ‘dare to build a different world’
A prayer meeting organized by the Taizé community. / Credit: Christian Pulfrich, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED, Wikimedia
CNA Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis urged young people attending the 46th European Meeting organized by the ecumeni… […]
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Pope Francis speaks with Zelenskyy about peace efforts in Ukraine
Pope Francis meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on May 13, 2023, their first meeting since the start of the full-scale war with Russia. / Credit: Vatican Media
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA… […]
Essay
The Christmas Octave highlights death and points to everlasting life
Some things are just too good to let go of, so we prolong them. That’s the intuition that the Church concretizes in her observance of octaves—eight-day-long celebrations—a liturgical inheritance from our elder brethren in faith […]