Archbishop denounces attack on home for young drug addicts in Argentina
The priest decided to make the episode public on social media, posting: “Yesterday afternoon around 4 p.m a guy looked over the perimeter wall of the rehabilitation center that we…
Prosecutors drop case of alleged ‘cover up’ against Benedict XVI
The Munich abuse report was released in January 2022 and faulted Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and his successors, Cardinals Friedrich Wetter and Reinhard Marx. The study criticized the late German…
New Orleans Auxiliary Bishop Cheri dies at 71 after lengthy illness
“They did that to integrate the church,” Cheri said. “We were just going to do it. I don’t think there was any conversation about it.” That experience, as mysterious as…
Biden DOJ sued for allegedly hiding info on attacks of churches, pro-life groups
“ Merrick Garland and his top officials at DOJ clearly hold us in contempt,” Mike Howell, the director of the Oversight Project, said in a statement provided to CNA. Howell…
Discovering Pier Giorgio Frassati: Film sheds light on humanity, holiness of Italian blessed
“To discover Pier Georgio Frassati’s life and spirituality helped me be more prayerful, for example,” director Gurrieri said, “to trust more in God, to be more attentive also to the…
Pope Francis invites Catholics to renew consecration to Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25
“Let us not tire of entrusting the cause of peace to the Queen of Peace,” he said. “Therefore, I would like to invite each believer and community, especially prayer groups,…
Pope Francis: Christian witness requires consistency between how one lives and what one proclaims
“A Church that evangelizes herself in order to evangelize is a Church that, guided by the Holy Spirit, is required to walk a demanding path of continuous conversion and renewal,”…
Argentine archdiocese repudiates destruction of blasphemous art exhibition
When the Social Ministry of the Archdiocese of Mendoza learned of the exhibition, the ministry repudiated it for carrying out “symbolic violence against Christian religious signs” and added that it…
Benedict’s personal secretary searches for five cousins who are heirs of the late pontiff
In addition, in a statement to the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Gänswein noted that “other personal items, from watches to pens, from paintings to liturgical items, were included in a…
Meet the new Nigerian secretary for the Vatican Dicastery for Evangelization
“I know what it means to feel one has been abandoned by the rest of humanity. Or what it means to feel one has been discriminated against in one’s own…
‘Christ is our future’: Vatican announces theme, schedule for Pope Francis’ Budapest trip
According to 2019 statistics from the Vatican, approximately 61% of Hungary’s 9.7 million people identify as Catholic. The country’s second-highest religious demographic is those with no religious faith. Schedule Pope…
Vatican’s ambassador during Iraq war: Under Saddam Hussein ‘the Church was respected’
To witness the beginning of the war after working for peace left Filoni feeling powerless, he said. It was “really terrible,” he said, “just to accept — fatally — the…