I suspect that everyone considers the rose the “queen of flowers.” In almost every culture, the rose has held quasi-mystical value. In the Greco-Roman world, the rose symbolized beauty, love and the season of spring; […]
The sensational story of the murderous Pranzini would inspire the young saint to adopt her “first sinner.” […]
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Italian priest beatified BOLOGNA—A parish priest of Bologna who served his parishioners during World War II at the cost of his own life was beatified September 26. Fr. Giovanni Fornasini was ordained as a Bolognese […]
Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg. / Julia Wächter
Regensburg, Germany, Sep 30, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).
A German Catholic bishop suggested this week that the country’s “Synodal Way” is using the abuse crisis to reshape the Church on Protest… […]
A group of California taxpayers and school parents is asking the Superior Court of California for a restraining order to block the state’s public schools from using prayers to Aztec and Yoruba gods as a […]
We surged out of the Church of the Assumption into Warwick Street where a large crowd was waiting. It took some minutes to get the procession formed as the numbers were substantial, but it was […]
Breaking News / CNA
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 29, 2021 / 09:03 am (CNA).
Bishops should consider requiring DNA tests or physical examinations to ensure that all seminarians are biological men, said Archbishop Jerome Listecki in a recent mem… […]
When I met Cardinal Agostino Casaroli on February 14, 1997, the architect of the Vatican’s Ostpolitik and its soft-spoken approach to communist regimes in east central Europe in the 1960s and 1970s could not have […]
Pope Francis greets then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the Vatican, April 29, 2016. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Sep 28, 2021 / 11:40 am (CNA).
Pope Francis is expected to receive Joe Biden on Oct. 29, in the U.S. president’s first official … […]
The war over compulsory COVID-19 shots for health care workers spilled from the federal courtroom onto the streets of the Bronx as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stated her intention to replace health care workers […]
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