Pier Giorgio Frassati could be canonized during 2025 Jubilee, cardinal says
The young man from the northern Italian city of Turin was an avid mountaineer and third order Dominican known for his charitable outreach. At the age of 17, he joined…
March for the Martyrs raises awareness of persecuted Armenian Christians and more
Chacón explained that the decades-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan erupted anew last September, when Azerbaijan unleashed military strikes against an enclave of about 120,000 Armenian Christians in the disputed…
Regnum Christi: ‘It would have been easy to run and hide,’ but the Church is ‘purifiying’ us
Francisco Gámez, the other layman who is a member of the board of directors as an assistant, explained that between 2013 and 2019 when the new statutes were approved, the…
Analysis: Jesuit sex abuse scandal in Bolivia could be used politically to repress Church
The senator noted that while she was present the commission also interviewed Pedro Lima, a controversial and well-known media figure in Bolivia, a MAS sympathizer, and a former Jesuit. Lima…
Franciscans file petition to stop cable cars from passing over Holy Land Catholic cemetery
According to Touma, the petition’s main arguments are threefold. First, the Custody of the Holy Land claims that authorities have broken the promise made in 2017 not to run the…
‘Little miracle of Lille’: How a candlelight Mass gathers hundreds of young people every week in France
For Louis Tranié, a physiotherapy student and vice president of the chaplaincy office, the “WYD Lisbon” effect (referring to the World Youth Day that attracted hundreds of thousands of pilgrims…
109 years after genocide, Armenia faces another existential threat
Nagorno-Karabakh a warning of what is to come? Lara Setrakian, an Armenian reporter and human rights activist, told CNA that though Armenia has attempted to integrate and shelter the Nagorno-Karabakh…
Franciscan University rejects Biden administration’s transgender policies in Title IX
“We believe in the inherent dignity of every human person,” Pivonka wrote in the email. “And as a passionately Catholic institution, we believe in and follow the teachings of the…
U.S. birth and fertility rates drop to record lows, according to CDC report
The 2023 decline reverses a minor fertility rate bump for the calendar years of 2021 and 2022, which was the first increase since 2014. The 2023 numbers continue a wider…
Most priests in Sierra Leone are sons of Muslims, bishop says
In fact, he noted, “we say that there is very good religious tolerance in Sierra Leone. This is one of the most beautiful things that we can export to the…
Four German bishops resist push to install permanent ‘Synodal Council’
Given the Vatican’s repeated interventions against the German process, the bishops said on Wednesday they would instead look to the Synod of Bishops in Rome to point the way for…
Biden Title IX changes affect state laws on women’s sports, locker rooms, lawyers warn
“Florida rejects Joe Biden’s attempt to rewrite Title IX,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a video message posted on X on Thursday. “We will not comply and we will…