From Islam to the Catholic Church: One Turkish woman shares her story of faith
By Nathalie Ritzmann ACI MENA, Aug 21, 2024 / 06:00 am Born 61 years ago into a Muslim family in Turkey, Belkız was the first daughter after two sons. As…
2024 Democratic platform: What Catholics need to know
By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 20, 2024 / 18:26 pm Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago have approved a party platform that doubles down on support…
Synod organizer Cardinal Hollerich: Catholic Church in Africa ‘not afraid to speak’
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 20, 2024 / 18:06 pm Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich praised the boldness and the faithfulness of the Catholic Church in Africa after a pilgrimage…
Baltimore Orioles host first-ever ‘Faith Night’; players share ‘what God has done’
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 17:36 pm The Baltimore Orioles, a Major League Baseball team, hosted its first-ever “Faith Night” on Aug. 13. Six players…
Faith is most important thing in life, says cardinal who resisted onslaught of communism
By Walter Sánchez Silva ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 17:06 pm Cardinal Peter Erdö, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, said that faith is the most important thing in life,…
Study highlights that most migrants worldwide are Christian
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 16:36 pm A new analysis by the Pew Research Center has found that nearly half of the estimated 280 million people…
Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua shuts down 1,500 nonprofits and exiles two more priests
By Walter Sánchez Silva ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 16:06 pm The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua have canceled…
Federal courts rule in favor of transgender-identifying athletes in two states
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 15:36 pm Two federal judges in separate states have ruled against school policies that prohibit students from joining teams of the…
Church asks Mexican president-elect to promote reconciliation to ‘achieve social peace’
By Diego López Colín ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 15:06 pm With Claudia Sheinbaum set to take office as Mexico’s new president on Oct. 1, Catholic Church leadership…
Catholic leaders to attend ‘groundbreaking’ forum on nuclear weapons in New Mexico
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 06:00 am Catholic organizations at the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of New Mexico (UNM) are banding together…
St. Bernard of Clairvaux: monastic reformer and adviser to popes
By CNA Staff CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 04:00 am Every year on Aug. 20, the Catholic Church honors St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the 12th-century monk who helped to…
Phil Donahue, talk show pioneer and ‘lapsed Catholic’ who courted controversy, dies at 88
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 17:20 pm Phil Donahue, a self-described “lapsed Catholic” who reinvented the daytime television talk-show format beginning in the 1960s, died Sunday…