Archive for May 30, 2021

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By Autumn Jones

Catholic school students outperform public school peers, despite slight decreases in overall academic scores

Catholic school students in grades 4 and 8 are outperforming their public school peers in math, reading, and science, according... Read more

Cameron Song Sellers serves in the U.S. Army and as a seminarian with the Archdiocese of San Francisco.?w=200&h=150

By Katie Yoder

Military chaplains inspired this soldier, abandoned as a toddler, to enter seminary

Retired Army Col. Cameron Song Sellers served his country, and now, he’s serving God. Read more

Pope Francis speaks at the Sunday Angelus on May 30, 2021.?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis: The Holy Trinity invites us to grow in unity as Christians

On the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Pope Francis said unity is essential to Christian life because God is... Read more

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai during a previous private audience at the Vatican, on Feb. 7, 2020.?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis invites Lebanese Christian leaders to Vatican to pray for peace

Lebanon has faced a financial and political crisis for months, as political leaders have failed to form a government to... Read more

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Baltimore, Maryland.?w=200&h=150

By CNA Staff

10 surprising facts of America’s first cathedral in Baltimore

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the first cathedral built in the... Read more

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Alessandro Allori, “The Presentation of Mary,” 1598.

What do we know about the presentation of Mary?

Archbishop Philip Anyolo of the Nairobi Archdiocese in Kenya.

Nairobi archbishop declines Kenyan president’s donations to Catholic parish

Jimmy Lai’s wife, Teresa (left), and retired Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun arrive at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts to attend Hong Kong activist publisher Lai’s national security trial in Hong Kong on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.

Jimmy Lai takes the stand in yearslong Hong Kong national security trial

Senior fellow at the National Catholic Bioethics Center Joseph Meaney speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.

Vietnam, with one of the highest abortion rates, leads UN initiative on premature births

Pope Francis greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience on Nov. 20, 2024, at the Vatican.

Pope Francis reads Ukrainian student’s moving testimony of faith at general audience

Before the wooden coffin is closed, Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Monsignor Diego Giovanni Ravelli, the Vatican’s lead master of ceremonies for papal liturgies, place a white veil over the late pope’s face. The action on Jan. 4, 2023, is part of the funeral rites for popes.

Vatican simplifies funeral rite for popes

The Supreme Court of India.

Church leaders will appeal Indian Supreme Court order for tax on salaries of clergy

Argentine President Javier Milei walks past President-elect Donald Trump as they attend the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida.

How will Trump impact abortion, gender, and migration policies in Latin America?

Memorial tree in Mayfouk, Lebanon, in remembrance of Christians killed in the Lebanese civil war.

Red Wednesday in the Land of the Martyrs 

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Catholic NASA scientist delves into investigation of potential life on other planets

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