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How to honor Valentine’s Day on Ash Wednesday
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Feb 11, 2024 / 08:00 am If you’re giving up sweets for Lent, you may not be happy to learn that this year Ash Wednesday falls on Valentine’s Day. But while the day typically marked by heart-shaped candies, Hallmark cards, and giant teddy bears may seem …
Winner, winner, Rice-A-Roni dinner? Bishops bet on the Super Bowl
By Joe Bukuras CNA Staff, Feb 10, 2024 / 06:00 am It’s a tradition for the Catholic bishops from the two cities sending teams to the Super Bowl to make a friendly wager before the big game. With the Kansas City Chiefs back in their fourth Super Bowl in five years …
Human Trafficking Bill: U.S. bishops urge passage in Congress
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Feb 9, 2024 / 17:00 pm The bishops of the United States have urged Congress to pass a bill aiming to combat human trafficking that would, among other things, provide grants to aid organizations in areas with high rates of trafficking. The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims …
LEGO announces new architecture set of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Feb 3, 2024 / 08:00 am LEGO has announced a new architecture set for 2024: Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral. The nearly 4,400-piece set is ready to hit shelves on June 1 and will be priced at $229.99. The iconic landmark will be joining sets such …
Netflix has a series on Catholic relics called ‘Mysteries of the Faith’
By Andrés Henríquez ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 4, 2024 / 08:00 am How can an ancient object connect Catholics to the sacrifice of Jesus? Why does the Catholic Church venerate and safeguard these objects with such care? These questions begin “Mysteries of Faith,” a Netflix series that explores the history and …
Today begins week of reflection prior to the International Day of Prayer against Trafficking
By Walter Sanchez Silva ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 2, 2024 / 17:15 pm “Journeying in Dignity: Listen, Dream, Act” is the theme of the International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking to be held on Feb. 8, a date established by Pope Francis on the feast of St. Bakhita, …
UPDATE: Senators press FBI on alleged deletion of files related to Catholic investigation
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 2, 2024 / 15:00 pm More than a dozen senators are demanding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) come clean about its efforts to surveil traditionalist Catholics, with the lawmakers accusing the agency of deleting records, withholding details, and giving misleading information about …
Pope Francis’ 2024 Lenten message: ‘Lent is a season of conversion, a time of freedom’
By Matthew Santucci Rome Newsroom, Feb 1, 2024 / 14:30 pm Pope Francis has centered his Lenten message for 2024 on the Book of Exodus, choosing “Through the Desert God Leads Us to Freedom” as its main theme to encourage the faithful that the season is a journey from bondage to …
Six pro-life activists convicted of federal FACE Act charges, face over a decade in prison
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Jan 31, 2024 / 10:40 am Half a dozen pro-life activists on Tuesday were found guilty of violating a federal law that forbids protesters from blocking the entrances to abortion clinics. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that the six defendants in the Nashville, …
The hidden history of Black Catholic nuns in the U.S.
Washington D.C., Feb 11, 2021 / 04:10 pm MT (CNA).- Black Catholic nuns have made manifold contributions to the Church in the United States, and theirs is a story that needs to be told, one historian says. Generations of black Catholic women “fought against racism in order to answer God’s …
