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Catholic priest hopes new ‘Rosary in a Year’ podcast will build ‘muscle of prayer’

December 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Ascension’s new podcast “The Rosary in a Year” with Father Mark-Mary Ames, CFR, begins Jan. 1, 2025. / Credit: Ascension

CNA Staff, Dec 31, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
First came “The Bible in a Year,” then “The Catechism in a Year” — now comes “The… […]

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Here are Pope Francis’ prayer intentions for 2025

December 31, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis prays at his general audience Dec. 20, 2023, in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 31, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
The pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network has released the Holy Father’s list of prayer… […]

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Nosferatu is a frightening wake-up call

December 30, 2024 Andrew Petiprin 14

F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film Nosferatu is a landmark of early cinema, memorialized in the Catholic world by its inclusion on the 1995 Vatican Film List. In the opening title card, the film calls itself “a symphony […]

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West Virginia awards Catholic ‘trade college’ $5 million grant for expansion

December 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

A student workshop at The College of St. Joseph the Worker. / Credit: College of St. Joseph the Worker

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 30, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA).
The College of St. Joseph the Worker, an Ohio-based Catholic college, received a $5… […]

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Homelessness rose 18% in the past year, HUD report shows

December 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

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CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA).
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday released a report estimating that nearly 772,000 people were experiencing homeless… […]

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The state of Christianity in England today and tomorrow

December 30, 2024 Joanna Bogle 16

My father’s Commission from World War II is kept in our home and will be passed down to the next generation (along with my husband’s, similarly worded) from Queen Elizabeth II. Some years before inheriting […]

The Dispatch

Judge says Wisconsin trial against McCarrick will remain suspended until his death

December 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 9

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at Massachusetts’ Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021. / Credit: Andrew Bukuras/CNA

CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA).
A Wisconsin judge last week ordered that a sexu… […]

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PHOTOS: Cardinal Pizzaballa opens 2025 Jubilee Year in Holy Land

December 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The entry of the cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29, 2024, marks the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land. The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, crossed the thres… […]

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Relatives of Belgian King Baudouin: ‘His whole life was a witness to the living Christ’

December 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

“What we have to aspire to is to be saints,” the relatives of the late Belgian King Baudouin recall him urging. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Baudouin family

Madrid, Spain, Dec 30, 2024 / 11:55 am (CNA).
After praying silently at King Baudoui… […]

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Louisiana priest Lawrence Hecker dies in prison after life sentence over rape of teenager

December 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and raping a teenage boy in the 1970s, heading off a long-delayed trial that launched with an indictment last year.  / Credit: New Orleans Police Department

CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2024 /… […]

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