Longtime Notre Dame philosophy professor David Solomon converts to Catholicism
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 17:26 pm David Solomon, a longtime professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and founder of what is now…
Iowa healing ministry temporarily suspended over ‘canonical concerns’
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 16:56 pm A Catholic healing ministry in the Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, has suspended its monthly healing services after the…
Former seminarian pleads guilty in Ohio child porn case
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 16:07 pm A former Catholic seminarian in Ohio pleaded guilty this week to charges of possessing child sexual abuse material and…
Dictatorship in Nicaragua: 7 priests left the country and arrived ‘safely’ at the Vatican
By Walter Sánchez Silva ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 15:37 pm Rosario Murillo, wife of dictator Daniel Ortega and vice president of Nicaragua, announced that seven priests left…
Pope Francis conveys ‘message of hope’ to Chinese Catholics, desire to visit China
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 9, 2024 / 15:07 pm Pope Francis conveyed a “message of hope” to Chinese Catholics and expressed his desire to one day visit…
Maine Catholic schools to be excluded from tuition grant program
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 14:26 pm Catholic schools will be excluded from Maine’s tuition grant program, a Maine district court affirmed on Thursday. The court…
Investors urge Walmart, Costco to keep abortion pills out of stores
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 13:33 pm A consortium of investors is warning major retailers including Walmart and Costco against selling the abortion pill, arguing that…
Lebanon is on the brink of war: Where do the country’s Christians stand?
By ACI MENA ACI MENA, Aug 9, 2024 / 12:25 pm In a stark departure from the destructive war of 2006, which had political and partly Christian motivations and revealed…
Family Pride Parade to be held on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro
By Monasa Narjara ACI Digital, Aug 9, 2024 / 07:00 am The first Family Pride Parade will take place on Saturday, Aug. 10, the day before Father’s Day in Brazil,…
Is Edith Stein a doctor of the Church? No, but she could be one soon
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 06:00 am Aug. 9 is the feast day of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein. A…
The Nagasaki mission house built by St. Maximilian Kolbe that survived the atomic bomb
By Gigi Duncan Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 9, 2024 / 05:00 am When the American military dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, the city was…
10 quotes from Edith Stein on what it means to be a woman
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 04:00 am On Aug. 9 the Catholic Church celebrates the life of philosopher, writer, and religious sister St. Teresa Benedicta of…