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U.S. bishops invite faithful to pray mental health novena

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Oct 6, 2024 / 06:00 am The U.S. bishops announced the second annual novena for mental health as part of a national campaign to promote mental health. Launched in 2023, the National Catholic Mental Health Campaign aimed to address mental illness around the message that “everyone …
Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals, including archbishops of Tehran and Toronto

By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 6, 2024 / 07:41 am Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he will create 21 new cardinals, including the archbishops of Tehran, Tokyo, and Toronto, at a consistory on Dec. 8. The 87-year-old pope made the announcement from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square after …
Pro-life advocates bear witness at Ohio March for Life in Columbus

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2024 / 17:55 pm Crowds of people gathered in downtown Columbus, Ohio, today for the Ohio March for Life, the first such gathering to be held in the state since Ohio voters approved a sweeping constitutional amendment to expand abortion. Photos and videos posted on social …
Tennessee bishop on Hurricane Helene devastation: ‘Many have lost homes’

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2024 / 09:30 am Bishop Mark Beckman of the Diocese of Knoxville in eastern Tennessee — an area heavily impacted by the recent Hurricane Helene — said in an interview with “EWTN News Nightly” this week that the storm’s “devastation” has led to mounting …
What to do about Halloween? Catholic moms – and an exorcist – weigh in

by Mary Farrow Denver, Colo., Oct 30, 2021 / 15:00 pm For years, Cecilia Cunningham and her husband took their children trick-or-treating in their then-suburban Philadelphia neighborhood. “It was the kind of neighborhood outside of Philadelphia where everybody knew each other, and it was a really fun neighborhood thing,” Cunningham …
Introducing “Eschatological” Man

Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” (TOB). Up to this point in our reflections on TOB, we have been exploring Pope St. John Paul II’s reflections on “original man” and “historical man.” “Original man” refers to the …
Are modern Bible translations always better? A Catholic linguist praises St. Jerome’s Vulgate

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Sep 30, 2024 / 04:00 am Most people know that St. Jerome — whose feast day the Catholic Church celebrates on Sept. 30 — is famous for translating the entire Bible into Latin in the fourth century A.D., creating a widely read edition later known as the Vulgate. …
Pope Francis Prayer Intention for October 2024

For a shared mission We pray that the Church continue to sustain in all ways a Synodal lifestyle, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, the communion and the mission shared among priests, religious and lay people.
Word on Fire launches mental health, suicide prevention ministry inspired by Shia LaBeouf

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Sep 26, 2024 / 07:00 am The Word on Fire Institute, founded by Bishop Robert Barron, launched a program earlier this month designed to support young men amid a national mental health crisis. Amid a crisis of loneliness and mental health, especially for young men, the …
Missouri executes Muslim prisoner Marcellus Williams despite Catholic protest

By Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Sep 25, 2024 / 13:20 pm Missouri executed Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Tuesday evening for the brutal murder of a St. Louis journalist in 1998 despite significant local and national outcry from Catholics and others who begged state authorities not to carry out the execution, …