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The Season of the Dead: The origins and practice of Allhallowtide

October 31, 2025 Thomas L. McDonald 60

We’ve grown to think of our American experience of Halloween—with its focus on horror themes, costumes, candy, and decorations—as normative. In fact, it’s a product of the 20th-century media-saturated, consumer-oriented appropriation of Catholic feasts for […]

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Sex abuse victims in New Orleans Archdiocese approve $230 million settlement

October 31, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

The St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square are seen at sunset near the French Quarter in downtown New Orleans on April 10, 2010. / Credit: Graythen/Getty Images

CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA).
The Archdiocese of New Orleans secured ne… […]

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The lifesaving miracle that led to St. John Henry Newman’s canonization

October 31, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Melissa Villalobos suffered severe bleeding while pregnant. St. John Henry Newman interceded and saved her and her daughter Gemma, now 11 years old. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Villalobos family

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 31, 2025 / 10:00 am (CN… […]

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Volunteering at a maternity home for crisis pregnancies: What to know

October 31, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

A baby girl at Mary’s Comfort maternity home in Springfield, Virginia. / Credit: Courtesy of Mary’s Comfort

CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).
After a homily inspired a group of parishioners to live out their pro-life beliefs and start a… […]

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Catholic actor Michael Iskander says recent conversion is ‘answering a calling from God’

October 31, 2025 Catholic News Agency 3

CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2025 / 08:00 am Michael Iskander, the actor who portrays King David in the hit Prime Video series “House of David,” announced earlier this year that he had converted to Catholicism. […]

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Pope to make St. John Henry Newman co-patron of Catholic education with St. Thomas Aquinas

October 31, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 31, 2025 / 07:00 am Pope Leo XIV declared St. John Henry Newman, along with St. Thomas Aquinas, as a patron saint of the Catholic Church’s educational mission in his recent […]

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Meet the nun who writes Catholic vampire books 

October 31, 2025 Catholic News Agency 2

Sister Allison Gliot, a Daughter of St. Paul, is the author of the “In Aeternum” series as well as other nonfiction and children’s books. She also works as an acquisitions editor for Pauline Books and Media. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Pauline B… […]

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4 ways to celebrate ‘Holywins’ with your family on the eve of All Saints

October 31, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

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ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 31, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The celebration of “Holywins” (“Holiness wins“), is an initiative that originated in Paris in 2002 with the aim of celebrating the eve of All Saints on Oct. 31 in a… […]

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A Catholic defense of trick-or-treating

October 30, 2025 Rachel Hoover Canto 56

Alas, it is that time of year again when certain suburban moms across America log onto the neighborhood Facebook group to request that Halloween trick-or-treating be moved to a different day so that their kids […]

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CPAC Summit focuses on ending Christian persecution

October 30, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 30, 2025 / 17:31 pm The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) launched an initiative to combat Christian persecution domestically and abroad, a subject at the heart of its latest summit in […]

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