Daniel Ibanez/CNA Denver Newsroom, Jul 27, 2021 / 16:30 pm (CNA). An auxiliary bishop of the Boston archdiocese on Sunday revealed why he voted against a motion of the U.S. bishops’ conference to begin drafting a teaching document on the Eucharist.Bishop Mark O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop of […]

Washington D.C., Jul 27, 2021 / 16:10 pm (CNA). Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington has reportedly withdrawn permission for a solemn pontifical Mass that was to be offered August 14 in D.C.A pontifical Mass is celebrated by a bishop in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. The Mass, scheduled […]

Dominican Nuns of the St. Catherine of Siena Monastery in Mexico City / Dominican Nuns of St. Catherine of Siena/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 27, 2021 / 14:15 pm (CNA). The most recent report from the Catholic Multimedia Center (CCM) shows that at least 12 priests and a Mexican nun have died from the […]

Sr. Constance Veit, LSP / EWTN News In Depth Washington D.C., Jul 27, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Ahead of the inaugural World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly this past Sunday, the communications director for the Little Sisters of the Poor described how the order cares for the elderly as people of […]

Filipina weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz proudly displays her Olympics gold medal and the Miraculous Medal, a devotional medallion depicting the Virgin Mary. / Hidilyn Diaz's Instagram Stories Manila, Philippines, Jul 27, 2021 / 12:55 pm (CNA). Philippine Catholic bishops congratulated the country’s […]

St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. / Gastao at English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). Edinburgh, Scotland, Jul 27, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA). A Catholic priest escaped without injury on Monday after he was attacked by a man wielding a glass bottle as he prayed at a cathedral in […]

Giovanni Angelo Becciu, former prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, pictured June 27, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, Jul 27, 2021 / 11:15 am (CNA). Cardinal Angelo Becciu was present Tuesday on the first day of a major Vatican finance trial to defend himself of charges […]

Archbishop Angaelos / Courtesy photo. Washington D.C., Jul 27, 2021 / 10:30 am (CNA). Christians around the world must speak out against all religious persecution - including against the Muslim Uyghurs, the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London told CNA during a recent summit on international […]

Bishop Rob Mutsaerts, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands. / Danny Gerrits - wikiportret.nl via Wikimedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0). ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, Jul 27, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA). A Dutch Catholic bishop has launched a strongly worded attack on Pope […]

Cardinal Reinhard Marx. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Munich, Germany, Jul 27, 2021 / 04:30 am (CNA). Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said that he cannot rule out asking Pope Francis to accept his resignation for a second time. The Catholic archbishop of Munich and Freising discussed the possibility of a […]

Steve Knutson via Unsplash. Vatican City, Jul 27, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis described world hunger on Monday as “a crime that violates basic human rights.” In a July 26 message to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, the pope called for a “new mindset” in the battle against […]

Digital Storm via www.shutterstock.com. Vatican City, Jul 27, 2021 / 01:55 am (CNA). On Tuesday, the Vatican court is holding the first hearing in a trial against 10 people charged with committing financial crimes against the Holy See.The Vatican finance trial is unprecedented in modern times. […]

Fernando Medina/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 26, 2021 / 16:10 pm (CNA). In an eight-minute video, about 30 American bishops and priests of the Cuban diaspora sent their prayers and a message of support to protesters on the island. Bishop Nelson Jesús Pérez, archbishop of Philadelphia and […]

Fernando Karadima / Chilean Judicial Branch Denver Newsroom, Jul 26, 2021 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Fernando Karadima, an influential former priest in Chile whose sexual abuse of minors prompted major questions about episcopal cover-ups, has died at the age of 90. Allegations that Karadima’s protégés […]

July 11, 2021: Cubans protest in Havana / Domitille P/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 26, 2021 / 14:20 pm (CNA). The director of the Hispanic Development Unit of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Ana Gloria Rivas-Vásquez, called for Catholics around the world to help Cuba, especially its […]