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Yes, you need to go to Mass twice this weekend — for Sunday and for Christmas

December 22, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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Denver, Colo., Dec 22, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).
This year, the fourth Sunday of Advent falls on Dec. 24 — Christmas Eve. The next day is Monday, Dec. 25 — the solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord. That m… […]

Bishop Munilla: Fiducia suplicans not ‘heretical’ but application will be ‘chaotic’ 

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

His Excellency José Ignacio Munilla is bishop of the Orihuela-Alicante Diocese in Spain. / Credit: Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 18:15 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munil… […]

Almost all Christians have fled southern Lebanon amid Israel-Hezbollah bombing

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Olive harvest season in the southern border town of Rmeish, Lebanon, in the midst of a crisis situation. / Credit: Rmeish’s Facebook page

CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 17:45 pm (CNA).
About 90% of those living in southern Lebanon’s Christian villag… […]

Second bishop detained by the dictatorship in Nicaragua

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Mnsgr. Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega is bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, Nicaragua. / Credit: Diocese of Siuna

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA).
The Nicaraguan police arrested on Dec. 20 the bishop of Siuna, Isidoro del Carmen Mo… […]

More bishops voice criticism — and support — for Vatican document on blessing same-sex couples

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Bishops gathered at the19th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar in Accra, Ghana, July 2022. / Courtesy of SECAM.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 16:51 pm (CNA).
More Catholic bishops hav… […]

Indiana Catholic women’s college reverses transgender admissions policy

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Woman with transgender symbol on her hand. / Juanje Garrido/shutterstock

CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 14:52 pm (CNA).
Saint Mary’s College — a Catholic women’s school in Notre Dame, Indiana — is reversing its controversial transgender admissions p… […]

After military review, IDF again denies killing two women at Gaza Catholic church

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Injured parishioners receive Communion on the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 17, 2023, at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. / Credit: Father Gabriel Romanelli/Facebook

CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 12:22 pm (CNA).
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has again … […]

Pope Francis urges humanitarian response to Darien migration tragedy

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

A migrant carries a baby in the Darien Province in Panama on Sept. 22, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have entered Panama through this jungle so far this year. / Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 /… […]

Same-sex blessings: Sinners can be blessed but not their sin, Spanish bishop says

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of Valladolid

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, is focusing on the implications of pas… […]

Dissenting priests in Syro-Malabar Church protest Pope Francis’ Christmas deadline 

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

A liturgy at St. Mary’s Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, Arakuzha, India. / Achayan via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bangalore, India, Dec 20, 2023 / 17:50 pm (CNA).
Tensions are rising within the Syro-Malabar Church in the Indian state o… […]

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