Pope Francis despite a lingering flu causing breathing difficulties met with the leader of a Peru-based lay group at the Vatican Friday amid an ongoing investigation into the community’s financial...
Regardless of cancelling a scheduled trip to Dubai this week due to health concerns, Pope Francis kept a busy schedule Thursday despite receiving ongoing antibiotic treatment for a flu causing lung...
St. Francis of Assisi Born: 1181 or 1182 Died: October 3, 1226 Feast Day: October 4 Patron of animals, merchants, and ecology Background Few saints enjoy the kind of “rock star” status that St...
“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.” St. Thérèse of Lisieux Born...
As I walked from the campus library to my dorm with my roommate, we discussed our plans for the weekend. It was a temperate December day in Southwest Florida at Ave Maria University. “Don’t forget!...
Expectant waiting. This is a notion– when considered through the lens of modernity– that seems like a foreign concept from the days of yore. The world is available at the slight extension of the...
Father Hans-Joachim Lohre (affectionately known as Father Ha-Jo), a German priest who has lived in Mali for three decades, went missing on 20th November 2022 after celebrating Mass at a convent in...
The Michigan Legislature recently amended the Michigan Civil Rights Act to cover sexual orientation and gender identity but provided no protection for religious organizations that believe marriage...
Pope Francis meets on April 29, 2023, with children and adults who are visually impaired and have other disabilities at a Catholic institute in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to Blessed László...
The Cathedral of San Luis Potosí in Mexico. / Credit: Saher via Wiki Commons
ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 30, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí expressed its concern about...
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...
Cardinal Peter Turkson, the Ghana-born Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, has broken ranks with the bishops of Ghana, who have praised...
Pope Francis received members of the World Youth Day Lisbon 2023 Committee and Foundation in a November 30 audience and thanked them for their work in organizing the event, which took place in...
In a statement issued ahead of COP28, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, two bishops who chair USCCB committees said that “climate goals must represent both the ‘cry of the earth...
There always seems to be a feeling of “in-betweenness” during this last week of Ordinary Time. We have just celebrated the great feast of Christ the King, which also signals the end of the...
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “Lay all your cares about the future trustingly in God’s hands, and let yourself be guided by the Lord just like a little child…” –Saint Teresa Benedicta...
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. ...