By Matt McDonald National Catholic Register, Jan 24, 2024 / 13:00 pm Volunteering to help people was a big part of who Ryan Realbuto was. He scrubbed dishes in a soup kitchen, did yard work at a foster home, repainted the chapel at a home for women, and helped high-school kids …

By Joe Bukuras, Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 23, 2024 / 19:25 pm One year after the FBI’s Richmond office sent out a memorandum outlining an investigation into traditionalist Catholics, a Latin Mass was held in the U.S. Capitol with the support of House Speaker Mike Johnson and two other Republican …

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 23, 2024 / 17:05 pm One of the most emblematic museums in the city of Rome, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, is currently hosting an exhibition on the life of the writer J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of “The Lord of the …

By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Jan 21, 2024 / 10:00 am Pope Francis announced the start of a Year of Prayer on Sunday in preparation for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year. In his Angelus address, the pope said that a Year of Prayer starting on Jan. 21 will be “a …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 22, 2024 / 16:00 pm President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday announced new plans to increase access to surgical abortion, chemical abortion, and contraceptives, with the move coming on the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s now-defunct Roe v. Wade ruling. The White House’s …

By Matthew Santucci Rome Newsroom, Jan 17, 2024 / 15:30 pm On the occasion of the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Pope Francis sent a letter to the group’s leader to express his hope that it will be an opportunity to find “ways to build …

By Walter Sanchez Silva ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 19, 2024 / 09:00 am Luca Di Tolve, Mister Gay Italy 1990 and a former homosexual activist, posted a reflection on his website regarding the declaration Fiducia Supplicans from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), lamenting that the Vatican document has caused pain, confusion, …

By Matthew Santucci Rome Newsroom, Jan 20, 2024 / 08:33 am Bishop Mario Dorsonville of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in southeastern Louisiana, whose ecclesial career spanned nearly four decades, died unexpectedly on Friday evening after serving as bishop of the diocese for less than a year. He was 63. In a …

By Nicolás de Cárdenas ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 18, 2024 / 18:00 pm Father Jesús Silva Castignani, a priest of the Archdiocese of Madrid, Spain, questioned the spirituality that governs the World Economic Forum now holding its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland: “What spirit governs Davos?” he asked in a Jan. …

By Matthew Santucci Rome Newsroom, Jan 17, 2024 / 09:12 am In a continuation of his catechetical series on vice and virtue, Pope Francis on Wednesday dedicated his general audience to highlighting the difference between love and lust, arguing that “in Christianity, there is no condemnation of the sexual instinct.” Centering …