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From celebrating ‘Mass’ at 4 to entering the seminary at 13: Emilio’s inspiring vocation

July 28, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Emilio stands beside the tomb of the future saint Carlo Acutis. / Credit: Cortesía

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 28, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
At just 4 years of age Emilio Madrid Mérida played the celebration of “Mass” at home with his stuffed animals. N… […]

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God is close, assures archbishop after fire destroys Spanish apartment complex

February 28, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

This photograph shows flowers and candles laid out on the sidewalk after a huge fire killed ten people in a multi-story residential block, in Valencia on February 26, 2024. Ten people have died in a vast fire that ripped through a 14-story apart… […]

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Spanish painter to become Trappist monk after seeing film on cloistered life

February 3, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

José María Méndez of Seville, Spain, will go from painter to Trappist monk, at 53 years old, thanks to the movie “Libres.” / Credit: José María Méndez

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 3, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).
After lying dormant for decades, the seed of … […]

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Shamanic ritual at World Economic Forum: ‘What spirit rules in Davos?’ priest asks

January 18, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

Chief Puttany of the Yawanawa tribe performed a shamanic ritual at the World Economic Forum 2024 in Davos, Switzerland. / Credit: WEF (CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED)

ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 18, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
Father Jesús Silva Castignani, a priest o… […]

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Spanish university cancels Rupnik chapel project

January 17, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

Project devised by Father Marko Rupnik for the chapel of the Francisco de Vitoria University outside Madrid, Spain. / Credit: UFV

ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 17, 2024 / 19:45 pm (CNA).
Spain’s Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV) has canceled its pl… […]

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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… […]

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PHOTOS: Rosary for Spain prayed in more than 100 cities on feast of Immaculate Conception

December 12, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

A crowd prays the rosary in Madrid, Spain, on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, patron saint of Spain, Dec. 8, 2023. / Credit: ACI Prensa

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 12, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
More than 100 cities joined in praying the rosa… […]

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Spanish lawyer, mom of 4, challenges country’s rosary ban

December 8, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Polonia Castellanos, founder of the Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Dec 8, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
Growing numbers of Catholics continue to defy Spain’s socialist government by publicly … […]

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Why protesters in 50 Spanish cities are praying the rosary this Friday

December 7, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Spanish protesters show their rosaries in Spain in protest against the action of the police on Nov. 28, 2023. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/ACI Prensa

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).
On Dec. 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Co… […]

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More than 130 Masses celebrated in 5 countries to promote Queen Isabella’s canonization

November 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Queen Isabella I of Castile, Spain. / Credit: New World Encyclopedia, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 29, 2023 / 12:55 pm (CNA).
On Nov. 26, 1504, Queen Isabella of Spain — known as “the Catholic” monarch — died, and more than … […]

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