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Amid chaplain shortage, military archdiocese appoints new vocations director

January 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Marcel Taillon, 58, has been appointed the new interim vocations director for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA. / Credit: Father Marcel Taillon

CNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese for the Military Serv… […]

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Father Mike Schmitz’s hit podcasts to begin airing on EWTN radio Jan. 15

January 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Father Mike Schmitz preaches the homily while celebrating Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City before a Eucharistic procession through the streets Oct. 10, 2023. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno

CNA Staff, Jan 12, 2024 / 15:10 pm (CNA).
EWTN… […]

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Opus Dei priest dies from heart attack while preaching at retreat

November 30, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Father Fadi Sarraf, 51, was a recently ordained Opus Dei priest. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Opus Dei

CNA Staff, Nov 30, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA).
Father Fadi Sarraf, a recently ordained priest of Opus Dei, reportedly died of a heart attack while … […]

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U.S. bishops vote to advance canonization cause of American priest Isaac Hecker

November 15, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Isaac Thomas Hecker founded the Paulist Fathers in New York City in 1858. / Credit: Paulist Fathers

Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
The U.S. bishops voted Tuesday to advance the cause of beatification and canonization of S… […]

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Baton Rouge priest killed in a car crash remembered for his holiness, passion for truth

August 8, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Mark Beard, pastor of St. Helena Catholic Church in Amite City, Louisiana, died in a car accident Aug. 2, 2023. / Credit: Diocese of Baton Rouge

St. Louis, Mo., Aug 8, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA).
A Louisiana priest who was killed in a car acc… […]

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‘Give your life to Jesus’: How a World Youth Day put a young man on the path to priesthood

July 25, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

At World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid, Nelson Cintra (at left in top row) was changed by Christ — and now he will go to Lisbon as a new priest for World Youth Day 2023, Aug. 1–6. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Nelson Cintra

Boise, Idaho, Jul 25… […]

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French priest accused of abusing a young girl commits suicide

July 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Benjamin Sellier. / Credit: Archdiocese of Cambrai, France

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 17, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Father Benjamin Sellier of the Archdiocese of Cambrai in France died by suicide in the early hours of July 11 after learning that… […]

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Missionary priest abducted in Nigeria’s Jos Archdiocese; security guard killed

June 19, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha was abducted on June 17, 2023, from the Archdiocese of Jos in Nigeria. / Credit: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

ACI Africa, Jun 19, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha, a member of the Missionar… […]

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Same church in Spain where priest was stabbed has now been vandalized and robbed

June 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

The parish of St. Josemaría in Alcorcón, Spain, was vandalized the night of June 15-16, 2023. / Credit: Parish of St. Josemaría

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 16, 2023 / 16:25 pm (CNA).
The same church where Father Javier Contreras was stabbed in 2020 … […]

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Nigerian priest returning from pastoral duties shot dead; archdiocese in ‘great shock’

June 12, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Charles Onomhoale Igechi was shot dead while returning from pastoral duties in Nigeria’s Benin City Archdiocese on Wednesday, June 7. / Credit: Benin City Archdiocese

ACI Africa, Jun 12, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA).
Father Charles Onomhoale Ig… […]

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