Last January, Pope Francis declared Church Father St. Irenaeus of Lyon (d. 202) to be a Doctor of the Church, a title given to those of eminent learning, a high degree of sanctity, and having […]
Bishop Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German bishops’ conference, meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, June 24, 2021. / Vatican Media.
CNA Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).
Bishop Georg Bätzing has criticized Pope Francis and dismisse… […]
Bishop Robert Francis Prevost was named prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops on Jan. 30, 2023. / Credit: Frayjhonattan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rome Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 07:27 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Monday named an Am… […]
A group of school girls receiving the sacraments of baptism and confirmation in Onitsha, Anambra, Nigeria, on May 30, 2022. / Shutterstock
St. Louis, Mo., Jan 29, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
A compilation of new data by the Center for Applied R… […]
Pope Francis greets the crowd at his Sunday Angelus address on Jan. 29, 2023. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Jan 29, 2023 / 05:55 am (CNA).
In his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis decried a culture that “throws away” unborn children, the eld… […]
Thirty-seven years ago today, on January 28, 1986, seven astronauts suffered a horrendous death as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air seventy-three seconds after takeoff. Almost anyone, at least in America, who was alive […]
A papal interview made real waves in the news this week, for the first time in a good while and for very good reason. The really big piece of news from the AP interview was […]
Pope Francis speaks at his general audience in Paul VI Hall on Jan. 18, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Jan 28, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has written a letter to clarify his comments on sin and homosexuality from a recent int… […]
Readings: • Zeph. 2:3; 3:12-13 • Psa. 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10 • 1 Cor. 1:26-31 • Matt. 5:1-12a During this Sunday’s Gospel reading we hear the Beatitudes, among the most well-known and oft-quoted sayings of Jesus. […]
The statue, called “Christ in Death,” portrays Jesus’ corpse laying on a burial shroud with a crown of thorns laid alongside his lower legs. / Paul Braun/Diocese of Fargo
Denver, Colo., Jan 27, 2023 / 08:08 am (CNA).
A woman was arrested after … […]
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