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…
A Catholic K–4 school for low-income students opens in Miami Archdiocese
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 16:50 pm A Catholic school for low-income and agricultural migrant families opened its doors in a Miami suburb on Monday for…
Scottish bishops: Assisted suicide leads to culture of ‘death on demand’
By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 19, 2024 / 16:20 pm Scotland’s Catholic bishops have issued a strong condemnation of the country’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults bill,…
Rhode Island diocese ‘disappointed’ after Harris-Walz fundraiser at Catholic college
By Joe Bukuras CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 15:50 pm Catholic leadership in Rhode Island has rebuked a local Catholic college, Salve Regina University, for hosting a fundraiser last…
‘A Short History of the Roman Mass’: New book explores evolution of the Mass
By Diego López Marina ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 15:20 pm In his new book, “A Short History of the Roman Mass,” Father Michael Lang, a priest of…
Pope Francis receives Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
By Walter Sánchez Silva ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 14:45 pm Pope Francis received Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon — who was accompanied by his fiancée,…
Pope Francis pens preface to US death row chaplain’s book on death penalty
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Aug 19, 2024 / 14:15 pm Pope Francis commended an American chaplain’s work with death row inmates as a ministry that reflects the “deepest reality…
Planned Parenthood mobilizes for Democratic convention in Chicago
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 13:30 pm Planned Parenthood is offering free abortions and vasectomies to residents and visitors in Chicago as the 2024 Democratic National…
New Father Flanagan film takes deeper look at famous founder of Boys Town
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 06:00 am Many are familiar with the story of Father Edward J. Flanagan from the 1938 Oscar-winning film “Boys Town”…