By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Nov 1, 2024 / 17:35 pm Many Catholics may be unaware that they can obtain not one but eight plenary indulgences for departed souls in the first week of November. For centuries, the Catholic Church widely observed All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1) as an octave, extending …

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Nov 3, 2024 / 06:00 am The Bishops’ Committee for Religious Freedom, an office of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), is encouraging the faithful to participate in a novena ahead of the feast of Christ the King, which will be celebrated on …

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Nov 4, 2024 / 14:00 pm Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki and named Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey Grob to be his successor. With the Nov. 4 appointment, the 63-year-old Grob will be returning to his birth state of Wisconsin. …

By Jonathan Liedl Rome Newsroom, Oct 27, 2024 / 07:00 am On Saturday, Pope Francis made the unprecedented decision to accept the final document from the Synod of Synodality as authoritative Church teaching. The 52-page text includes a theological reflection on the nature of synodality, which it says is the fulfillment of the reforms of Vatican II, …

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Oct 28, 2024 / 14:10 pm The Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees are currently going head to head in this year’s World Series. The last time the two popular teams faced each other on baseball’s biggest stage was in 1981. As baseball …

by Jonah McKeown Denver Newsroom, May 5, 2020 / 02:52 am MT (CNA).- Pope St. John Paul II, who led the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, is perhaps one of the most compelling figures of the 20th century. Born nearly 100 years ago on May 18, …

By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 17, 2024 / 18:10 pm Among the 14 people who will become the Catholic Church’s newest saints on Sunday is a priest whose intercession led to the miraculous healing of a man mauled by a jaguar, a woman who convinced a pope to call for …

By Sabrina Ferrisi New York City, N.Y., Oct 16, 2024 / 14:45 pm New Yorkers on Oct. 15 gathered in droves within the vaulted ceilings of one of New York City’s most famous churches, St. Patrick Cathedral, many from New York City and others driving in from nearby Long Island, New …

By Walter Sánchez Silva ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 14, 2024 / 18:40 pm A fire on Friday devastated St. Anthony of Padua Church and a Franciscan convent in the city of Iquique, Chile. The prosecutor’s office has not ruled out arson. “We are facing here such a lamentable situation, a tragedy …

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Oct 14, 2024 / 14:55 pm After Michigan’s Catholic bishops condemned a video of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, saying she was “mocking” the Eucharist, Whitmer has apologized for how the video “had been construed.” The viral video shows Whitmer feeding Liz Plank, a Canadian author, journalist, …