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 4, 2024 / … […]
Pope Francis is shown the new popemobile, an electric Mercedes, on Dec. 4, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Dec 4, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis was handed the key to a new Mercedes-Benz “popemobile” on Wednesda… […]
Pope Francis blesses a toddler during his general audience on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in St. Peter’s Square. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Dec 4, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis during his general audience at St. Peter’s Square on … […]
Cardinals outside the Paul VI Hall. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Vatican City, Dec 4, 2024 / 12:30 pm (CNA).
The 21 new cardinals to be created by Pope Francis at the Dec. 7 consistory reflect the pontiff’s vision for a missionary Church that re… […]
Main lobby of Orr Elementary in Tyler, Texas. / Credit: Buddpaul, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
CNA Staff, Dec 4, 2024 / 09:45 am (CNA).
The Texas State Board of Education has sparked renewed debate over the role of religion in public sch… […]
Bishop Carlos Herrera is president of the Bishops’ Conference of Nicaragua. / Credit: Bishops Conference of Nicaragua
Lima Newsroom, Dec 4, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The bishops of Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala are invit… […]
Andrea de Walderstein (left) and Antonio Boemo are spearheading the recreation of a local lagoon in a Nativity scene for St. Peter’s Square. Walderstein is the Nativity’s architect, designer, and construction manager, and Boemo is the coordinato… […]
During his years as professor of fundamental theology at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, Salvatore “Rino” Fisichella was often cited by American seminarians as their favorite professor – an exponent of dynamic orthodoxy whose engaging classroom […]
Vatican II’s Key Document on the Nature of Church Authority – “The Second Vatican Council document articulates the proper relationship between papal authority and the authority of bishops, individually and collectively.” In the Era of […]
Church of Panagia tou Arakos, triumphal arch, wall paintings, Lagoudera, Cyprus — north side, St. John of Damascus. / Credit: Winfield, David, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
National Catholic Register, Dec 4, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA).
On Dec. 4 we cel… […]
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