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Florida diocese opens ‘Precious Ones’ mausoleum to support couples who lose children
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Apr 26, 2024 / 09:51 am Families gathered with St. Augustine Bishop Erik Pohlmeier on a sunny Tuesday this week for the dedication of the “Precious Ones Baby Mausoleum” at the city’s San Lorenzo Cemetery. Six years in the making, the 44,000-pound granite mausoleum is designed …
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urges ‘massive subsidized day care’ plan to reduce abortion
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 23, 2024 / 11:45 am Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is embracing a “massive subsidized day care initiative” to reduce abortions in the United States without restricting legal access to the procedure. In a new webpage recently added to Kennedy campaign’s website, the candidate …
PHOTOS From the subway to the sacred: Brooklyn’s breathtaking Eucharistic Revival
By Jeffrey Bruno New York City, N.Y., Apr 23, 2024 / 13:00 pm I’d never ridden the subway with a bishop before. But then again, how many of us have? Bishop Robert Brennan from the Diocese of Brooklyn is not your typical bishop — and I mean that with the utmost …
Columbine High School massacre, 25 years later: ‘God, why did you allow me to survive?’
By Tina Dennelly CNA Staff, Apr 22, 2024 / 15:30 pm Throughout her freshman and sophomore years at Columbine High School, Jenica Thornby went to the library every single day. “Not one day went by that I did not go to the library,” Thornby recently told “EWTN News In Depth” reporter …
Did St. George really slay a dragon?
By Kelly Marcum Washington D.C., Apr 23, 2024 / 04:00 am St. George may be among Christianity’s most famous and beloved saints, immortalized through the famous legend of St. George and the Dragon — a tale thoroughly medieval in character in which a brave and chivalrous knight charges in and saves …
School News: Mount Notre Dame High School names Michelle Robinson President
A Letter from Cristina Seda-Hoelle ‘92 Chair, MND Board of Trustees Dear Friend of Mount Notre Dame, As previously communicated, Judy Back Gerwe ’78 is retiring from MND after nine years of dedicated and distinguished service. After a multi-month search process, the MND Search committee, assisted by Shana Rossi our …
Pope Francis names Filipino priest an auxiliary bishop of Sacramento
By Courtney Mares Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2024 / 07:40 am Pope Francis has named Father Reynaldo Bersabal as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento, California. The Vatican announced on Saturday that the priest ordained in the Philippines and incardinated into the Sacramento Diocese in 2004 will be consecrated …
Historic New York church with link to John Paul II struggles to stay open
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Apr 21, 2024 / 06:00 am A historic Polish Catholic church in Buffalo, New York — one with a unique connection to St. John Paul II — is facing tens of thousands of dollars in bills that threaten to close the nearly-century-old structure. Father Czeslaw Krysa, …
Catholic entrepreneur launches business startup program for teenagers
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Apr 20, 2024 / 06:00 am When Luke Burgis moved to Silicon Valley to start a business, he never expected he would become a seminarian and then go on to launch entrepreneurship programs for Catholic students. Burgis had attended NYU, worked on Wall Street, started several …
Michigan bishop apologizes for calling President Biden ‘stupid’
By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 19, 2024 / 18:20 pm Bishop Robert Gruss of Saginaw, Michigan, issued an apology on Friday for having referred to President Joe Biden as “stupid” during a talk earlier in the month. Gruss had made the comment in a talk on April 5 titled “Forgiveness …
