Archive for December 27, 2023

Founder and President of the Vulnerable People Project Jason Jones speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” host Tracy Sabol on Dec. 8, 2023.?w=200&h=150

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

Vulnerable People Project works to bring heat to Afghans facing harsh winter

Afghans are facing yet another brutal winter with millions struggling to buy fuel to stay warm. One Catholic organization is... Read more

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By Joe Bukuras

Maryland 2024 referendum proposes constitutional right to abortion

Voters in Maryland will take part in a statewide referendum next November to decide whether to make abortion access a... Read more

Susan Agostinelli shows Pope Francis a picture of her great, great uncle, Bl. Grimoaldo Santamaria of the Purification, during a meeting at the Vatican on Oct. 6, 2022. The audience was part of a conference on holiness and sainthood hosted by the Vatican.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Producer shares story of ‘family saint’ with new generation of Catholics

Susan Agostinelli says her great-great uncle, Blessed Grimoaldo Santamaria, was the “go-to family saint.” Now she is sharing his life... Read more

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By Tyler Arnold

Parents sue school district, allege deception in ‘gender transition’ of daughter

Two parents are suing a Michigan school district alleging that their 11-year-old daughter’s middle school actively deceived them about their... Read more

Pope Francis delivers his general audience address to pilgrims in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on Dec. 27, 2023.?w=200&h=150

By Matthew Santucci

Pope Francis: One must never dialogue with the devil

Pope Francis inaugurated a new catechetical series on vices and virtues during Wednesday’s general audience by opening with the story... Read more

Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, speaks to the media on Oct. 22, 2023.?w=200&h=150

By ACI Digital

Brazil’s Congress nixes government funding of abortions, sex changes for minors

The measure was proposed by federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, and approved in the House... Read more

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By Daniel Payne

Vatican to publish private homilies of Pope Benedict XVI

The Vatican Publishing House said this month that it intends to release a book of about 130 homilies given by... Read more

Cardinal Daniel Sturla is Archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Fiducia Supplicans ‘not a topic’ for Christmas season, Uruguayan cardinal says

​“I don’t think it was a topic to be brought out now at Christmas. ... it’s creating divisions within the... Read more

Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Nebraska.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Conviction against pro-life former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry overturned

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Fortenberry’s March 2022 conviction, finding that the Central District of California was an... Read more

Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez.?w=200&h=150

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Fernández: ‘It’s proper for each bishop’ to discern application of Fiducia Supplicans

In an interview published in a Spanish newspaper, Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith prefect Cardinal Victor Fernández responded... Read more

This image made from an AFPTV video taken in the Nigerian village of Maiyanga on Dec. 27, 2023, shows families burying in a mass grave their relatives killed in deadly attacks conducted by armed groups in central Plateau State. The death toll from a series of attacks on villages in central Nigeria has climbed to almost 200, local authorities said.?w=200&h=150

By Peter Pinedo

Christian villages in Nigeria reeling after Christmas attacks leave nearly 200 dead

Catholic leaders and others demand government action as victims are buried in mass graves.  Read more

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Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi during an interview with CNA in Rome on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.

Archbishop of Tokyo: An aging society like Japan’s will not be able to survive

President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, photographed here with Kirk Adams and First Lady Jill Biden, in a photo posted to his X account, Nov. 20, 2024.

Biden awards Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood leader Cecile Richards

Missouri’s bishops are urging the state to forgo executing a Christopher Collings, who was convicted of the 2007 abduction, rape, torture and murder of a 9-year-old girl. Collings is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, 2024.

Missouri bishops urge state to refrain from executing convicted child-killer next month

The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation awards the Ratzinger Prize to Notre Dame theologian Cyril O’Regan and Japanese sculptor Etsurō Sotoo at in a ceremony at the Vatican on Nov. 22, 204.

Prestigious Ratzinger Prize awarded to Notre Dame theologian, Japanese sculptor at Vatican

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Data show abortions dropped by nearly 40% in Iowa after six-week ban

Police are searching for a thief who entered the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street in Manhattan on Nov. 20, 2024, and stole a gold rose that memorializes a priest who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Police search for thief who stole 9/11 memorial gold rose from New York Catholic church

A close-up of the tomb of St. Ceclia at the basilica dedicated to her in Trastevere, Rome, Italy.

PHOTOS: St. Cecilia, martyr and patron saint of music, rests in Roman basilica named for her

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U.S. bishops: Federal ‘gender identity’ rule could block Catholics from government contracts

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