Archive for December 18, 2022

Patrick Callahan, director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture, founded in 2015 by Bishop James Conley for education in the New Evangelization?w=200&h=150

By Anna Youell

This college’s Newman Institute is attracting non-Catholics with its ‘Catholicism 101’ class

Almost half of the students who signed up for the Catholicism 101 class at the University of Nebraska’s Newman Institute... Read more

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By CNA Staff

How the ‘Posadas’ before Christmas in Mexico originated

In the days before Christmas, the traditional “posadas” are usually celebrated in Mexico, recalling the difficulties Joseph and Mary had... Read more

Pope Francis gives his Angelus address on Dec. 18, 2022?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis: St. Joseph shows us how to respond to disappointed dreams

“His courage is heroic and is exercised in silence,” Pope Francis said. Read more

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By Zelda Caldwell,Katie Yoder

Frank Pavone cancels Mass but vows legal action after Vatican dismisses him from priesthood

In a Dec. 13 letter to U.S. bishops, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, wrote that... Read more

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By Shannon Mullen,Kelsey Wicks

Canon lawyer on Father Pavone's dismissal from priesthood: Only the Pope can issue a decision without appeal

Father Gerald Murray, a canon lawyer, offered insights from canon law regarding unanswered questions about the dismissal of Frank Pavone... Read more

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Lee Edwares received the VOC Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, at the opening of the Victims of Communism Museum, June 2022. This medal is the highest honor from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which he co-founded in 1994.

Lee Edwards, Catholic historian of American conservatism, dies at 92   

Pope Francis greets artists and participants of the 2024 Vatican Christmas Concert in the Clementine Hall on Dec. 14, 2024.

Pope Francis calls on Vatican Christmas Concert artists to promote peace, reconciliation

Jack Traynor (next to child on first row) as a pilgrim to Lourdes in 1925, two years after his healing.

The healing of a Royal Navy sailor at Lourdes

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Christmas 2024: Catholic gifts for anyone on your shopping list

Detail of a 1964 West German postage stamp showing Father Alfred Delp.

The Nazi resister who had one of the most profound Advents ever

A pro-abortion activist displays abortion pills as she counter-protests during a pro-life rally on March 25, 2023, in New York City.

Trump commits to keeping abortion pill available

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Superior, which has programs for the disabled, elderly, and impoverished, argued caring for those in need is part of its religious mission.

Supreme Court to hear Catholic Charities case on whether serving the poor is religious act

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Cardinal Cupich asks Catholics ‘to receive holy Communion standing’ in Chicago Archdiocese

Pilgrims attend Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 12, 2022, to mark the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas and the unborn.

Archbishop Cordileone wants to encourage a devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe in U.S.

Pope Francis meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2021.

Overturning Nancy Pelosi’s Communion ban: It’s too late for an appeal, expert says

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