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Month: May 2025

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Former parish administrator faces decade in prison for $700,000 theft from Florida parish

May 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Deborah True. / Credit: Vero Beach Police Department

CNA Staff, May 8, 2025 / 11:20 am (CNA).
The former administrator of a Florida Catholic parish pleaded no contest in court this month to charges that she stole hundreds of thousands of dollar… […]

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Who are the Middle Eastern cardinals participating in the conclave?

May 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

From left to right: Cardinal Louis Sako (Iraq), Cardinal Mario Zenari (Syria), Cardinal Dominique Mathieu (Iran),
Cardinal Louis Sako (Iraq), Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa (Jerusalem), and Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero (Morocco). / Credit… […]

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White or black: How the conclave smoke gets made

May 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Black smoke billows from the chimney at 11:53 a.m. local time over St. Peter’s Square on May 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Vatican City, May 8, 2025 / 10:20 am (CNA).
It’s probably the most-watched smoke in the world: The billows of exha… […]

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Are the cardinals forever bound to not reveal the results of the conclave balloting?

May 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinals process to the Sistine Chapel as the conclave to elect the 266th successor to St. Peter, the 267th pope, begins on May 7, 2025. / Vatican Media

Vatican City, May 8, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).
The word conclave comes from the Latin “cum cl… […]

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Prioritize children’s schooling over gold mining, Angolan bishop says

May 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Maurício Agostinho Camuto of the Diocese of Caxito in Angola greets children at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish of his Episcopal See. / Credit: Radio Ecclesia Angola

ACI Africa, May 8, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The formal education of chi… […]

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No pasta carbonara or hard liquor on cardinals’ conclave menu

May 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 2

Reference photo of two chefs. / Credit: Drazen Zigic/Shutterstock

Vatican City, May 8, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Nutritionist Giorgio Calabrese, an Italian doctor who specializes in nutritional science, prepared the menu for the cardinal electors … […]

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BREAKING: Black smoke rises from Sistine Chapel as Thursday morning voting concludes without a pope

May 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Black smoke billows from the chimney at 11:53 am local time over St. Peter’s square on May 8, 2025 / Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, May 8, 2025 / 05:51 am (CNA).
Black smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at 11:51 am Rome time on Thu… […]

The Dispatch

Washington State’s bill openly attacks the Catholic Faith

May 8, 2025 Charles J. Russo 46

As noted in Catholic World Report, on May 2, 2025, Washington’s Democrat Governor Bob Ferguson signed Senate Bill 5375, “An ACT Relating to the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect” into law. A putative Catholic, […]

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Cardinal Francis George’s timely and timeless vision for the Church

May 7, 2025 Conor Dugan 8

Holy Thursday, April 17, marked the tenth anniversary of Cardinal Francis George’s death after a lengthy battle with cancer. In the past decade, Catholics—especially American Catholics—have suffered from his absence. With his keen intellect, deep […]

The Dispatch

A magnanimous priesthood for a pusillanimous time

May 7, 2025 Thomas P. Harmon 6

If a man has made it through seminary to the moment of ordination these days, he has likely studied the classical virtue tradition. He has learned that virtue lies between excess and defect. And he […]

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