By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Jul 9, 2023 / 05:15 am Pope Francis said on Sunday that he will create 21 new cardinals, including the Vatican’s recently appointed doctrinal chief Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, at a consistory on Sept. 30. The 86-year-old pope made the announcement from a window overlooking St. …

By Courtney Mares Rome Newsroom, Jul 7, 2023 / 06:42 am The Vatican published Friday the full list of participants who will take part in the upcoming Synod on Synodality assembly in October. Nearly a third of the 364 voting delegates in the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of …

By Kevin J. Jones CNA Staff, Jul 5, 2023 / 15:10 pm Pope Francis met with former U.S. President Bill Clinton in a private audience at the Casa Santa Marta papal residence on Wednesday. Clinton’s delegation included several prominent Americans, including Alex Soros of the Open Society Foundations. Clinton, who now …

By Francesca Pollio Fenton Denver, Colo., Jul 6, 2023 / 12:30 pm Thomas Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, sat down with EWTN News InDepth on June 23 to share how he went from living in an orphanage to becoming one of the wealthiest men in the world. He now devotes …

By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 6, 2023 / 15:19 pm “Sound of Freedom,” an anti-human-trafficking film made by Catholic filmmakers Eduardo Verastegui and Alejandro Monteverde, had a massively successful opening day in which it reached number one at the box office, beating out Disney’s fifth “Indiana Jones” installment, and raking …

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jul 5, 2023 / 10:58 am The Vatican will again offer a plenary indulgence to mark the third World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly on July 23. The indulgence can be received by grandparents, the elderly, and all Catholics who, “motivated by the true spirit …

By Kevin J. Jones Denver, Colo., Jul 5, 2023 / 07:30 am An unknown vandal or vandals sawed down a 14-foot cross at a Catholic-run retreat center in Orange County, California, and investigators are considering whether the act was a hate crime. “It’s still a mystery why an apparently hateful person …

By Francesca Pollio Fenton Denver, Colo., Jul 4, 2023 / 07:00 am Darryl Barwick was 19 years old when he killed 24-year-old Rebecca Wendt on March 31, 1986, at her Panama City, Florida, apartment. After watching her sunbathe by the pool, he followed her back to her room where he stabbed …

By Kevin J. Jones CNA Staff, Jul 5, 2023 / 09:56 am A fatal shooting Wednesday morning on the D.C. campus of the Catholic University of America is no threat to the university community and is under police investigation, the university said July 5. A male shooting victim was found at …

By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 30, 2023 / 14:30 pm The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) as well as numerous Catholic universities blasted the U.S. Supreme Court’s Thursday decision to overturn affirmative action in higher education. In a June 29 press release, the ACCU called the court’s decision …