“Conversion is a forgetting of ourselves, it is to stop pretending to be the center of the universe… and saying: ‘Lord, sit down, now the center is going to be you’” Bishop Munilla said during his Sept. 11, 2024, presentation at the International Eucharistic Congress. / Credit: Eduardo Berdejo/EWTN News Quito, Ecuador, Sep 14, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). The presentation by Bishop José […]

Father Vitalis Anaehobi, who serves in the southesast region of Nigeria, says that most of the young people he has spoken to are grieved by “difficulties in life” such as poverty, unemployment, and “the failure by the Church to protect them” as attacks against Christians continue in the country where religious-based persecution is one of the highest in the world. Many young people in the […]

Cardinal Jaime Sin hosted both of Pope John Paul II’s visits to the Philippines in 1981 and 1995. / Credit: © Ryansean071/Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Sep 14, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). An archdiocese in the Philippines opened a museum this month in honor of Cardinal Jaime Sin, a Filipino cardinal who was the people’s “voice against corrupt forces” during difficult times in the country’s […]

French Catholic priest Abbe Pierre takes part in a demonstration on May 6, 1994. / Credit: JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Sep 13, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA). The bishops of France have decided to release archive files related to the famous priest Abbé Pierre nearly six decades ahead of schedule amid multiple claims of sexual abuse involving the late cleric. Famed for his resistance work […]