National Catholic News

2018-03-07

  • San Antonio archbishop bans retreat center for ‘false teachings’ against Pope Francis
    on March 18, 2024 at 10:00 pm

    Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, MSpS, of San Antonio. / Credit: Veronicamarkland, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 18, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller has restricted a local priest and a ministry known as the Mission of […]

  • Pope Francis accepts resignation of Dominican Republic auxiliary bishop
    on March 18, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    Pope Francis on March 18, 2024, accepted the resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Ramón Benito Ángeles Fernández of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. / Credit: Archdiocese of Santo Domingo ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of an auxiliary […]

  • Stephen Colbert co-narrates Pope Francis’ new audiobook memoir
    on March 18, 2024 at 9:00 pm

    Stephen Colbert and Pope Francis. / Credit: Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 18, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA). The Catholic late-night talk show host and comedian Stephen Colbert is one of the narrators for the English audiobook version of […]

  • Vatican authorizes opening of cause for canonization for 13-year-old Filipina girl
    on March 18, 2024 at 8:05 pm

    The Vatican on March 16, 2024, determined that nothing prevents the opening of the cause for canonization of Niña Ruiz-Abad, a 13-year-old girl who died in 1993 in the Philippines and whose grave has become a place of pilgrimage. / Credit: Diocese of Laoag/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons ACI […]

  • U.S. bishops call for ‘focused effort of prayer’ ahead of Supreme Court abortion pill hearings
    on March 18, 2024 at 4:55 pm

    Katie Mahoney, Rev. Pat Mahoney, Peggy Nienaber of Faith and Liberty, and Mark Lee Dickson of Right to Life East Texas pray in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 21, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images CNA Newsroom, Mar 18, 2024 / 12:55 pm (CNA). The U.S. […]

  • Norwegian bishop celebrates Nordic country’s first Catholic Bible
    on March 18, 2024 at 3:30 pm

    Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, a Trappist monk and spiritual writer, has served as bishop of Trondheim in Norway since 2020. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Mar 18, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA). A Norwegian bishop and monk has hailed the publication of Norway’s first official Bible for Catholics […]

  • Do you know how to make ‘St. Joseph’s bread’? Here’s the recipe
    on March 18, 2024 at 3:00 pm

    St. Joseph’s altar at St. Mary’s Assumption Church in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans. / Credit: William A. Morgan/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). In the book “Dining with the Saints” there is a special recipe for making delicious “St. Joseph’s […]

  • Vatican Observatory publishes new method to better understand the Big Bang theory
    on March 18, 2024 at 12:00 pm

    null / Credit: Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Two priests and cosmologists from the Vatican Observatory have made further progress in developing a new mathematical method to understand the Big Bang theory, which describes the first moments of the […]

  • ‘Miracles’: Rhode Island Catholic school thrives after last-ditch purchase from diocese
    on March 18, 2024 at 11:00 am

    Chesterton students celebrate Mass in the school's new chapel. / Credit: Chesterton Academy of Our Lady of Hope CNA Staff, Mar 18, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A newly launched Catholic school in Rhode Island is on a fast track to growth after what its leader described as a series of “miracles” that […]

  • Pope Francis: God’s glory does not correspond to human success
    on March 17, 2024 at 1:07 pm

    Pope Francis waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square during his Sunday Angelus on March 17, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 17, 2024 / 09:07 am (CNA). Pope Francis said Sunday that God’s glory and our true happiness are not found in success, fame, or popularity but in […]

  • ‘The religion of the Incarnation’: Catholic artists reflect on the necessity of beauty
    on March 17, 2024 at 11:00 am

    Martin Earle, a sacred artist who specializes in works for churches and the liturgy, told CNA that one should not mistake an artistic revival for a simple re-creation of the past. / Credit: Courtesy of Martin Earle Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 17, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). St. Peter’s Basilica in […]

  • What St. Patrick can still teach the world
    on March 17, 2024 at 10:00 am

    Detail of stained glass depicting St. Patrick, in Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Goleen, County Cork. / Credit: Andreas F. Borchert via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) National Catholic Register, Mar 17, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Although March 17 is still known to the world as St. Patrick’s Day, the […]

  • Harrison Butker addresses family life, gun violence, Taylor Swift, and more in far-reaching interview
    on March 16, 2024 at 1:21 pm

    Harrison Butker on the sideline of the AFC Championship in Baltimore on January 28, 2024. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Mar 16, 2024 / 09:21 am (CNA). Super Bowl-winning kicker Harrison Butker shared a simple — but countercultural — message when he delivered a graduation speech at his […]

  • German bishops to Church in Africa: Initiate canonization of German martyrs
    on March 16, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    German martyrs who gave their lives in the service of the Gospel in Africa. Clockwise from top left to bottom right: Bishop Cassian (Franz Anton) Spiess, Father Karl Maria Weber, Brother Bernhard Ignatius Sarnes, Bishop Adolph Schmitt, Sister Magdala (Christa Elisabeth) Lewandowski, and Brother […]

  • Head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church talks war, the pope, and same-sex blessings 
    on March 16, 2024 at 12:00 pm

    Sviatoslav Shevchuk is major archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News Nightly Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 16, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). In an exclusive interview with EWTN News, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the […]

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