Archive for November 15, 2024

Ernest Board (1877-1934), “Albertus Magnus Teaches in the Streets of Paris.”?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Burke

St. Albert the Great: The Church and science are in harmony

St. Albert the Great, the teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas, was an assiduous Dominican whose accomplishments and gifts to the... Read more

Pope Francis meets with Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley on Nov. 14, 2024, at the Vatican ahead of a meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life titled “Common Good: Theory and Practice” in which Mottley was a panelist. The academy’s meeting discussed the global financial system in light of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church and crises that have impacted the world.?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

Vatican meeting highlights ‘common good’ as key objective to reform global financial order

The participants gathered to discuss the multifaceted and interconnected impacts of war, technology, health crises, and the environment. Read more

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By Kate Quiñones

New Senate majority leader John Thune an ‘unwavering defender of life’

A pro-life advocacy group is lauding the GOP’s recent election of South Dakota Sen. John Thune as Republican majority leader... Read more

Left: Protesters burn a bishops’ circular in front of St. Mary’s Basilica, the cathedral of Ernakulam Archdicoese in India. Right: An elderly woman puts a burning circular into a bin in front of Vazhakkala, India, church.?w=200&h=150

By Anto Akkara

Liturgical conflict resurfaces in troubled Indian Syro-Malabar archdiocese

This month’s delayed priestly ordination of eight deacons of the Ernakulam Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church has highlighted continuing divisions. Read more

Pope Francis waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Angelus address on Nov. 10, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis asks Rome’s Catholics to help combat ‘housing emergency’ during 2025 jubilee

“I want all diocesan realities that own real estate to offer their contribution to stem the housing emergency,” Pope Francis... Read more

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By Daniel Payne

Florida church bookkeeper sentenced to federal prison after stealing $875,000 from parish

Heather Darrey will spend 27 months in prison on a wire fraud conviction over her $875,323 theft from Christ the... Read more

Bishop Carlos Herrera is president of the Bishops’ Conference of Nicaragua.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Dictatorship in Nicaragua expels president of country’s bishops’ conference

The prelate recently criticized a pro-Ortega mayor who interfered with a Mass by blasting loud music in front of the... Read more

Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washington, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education, speaks to CNA during the USCCB’s fall plenary assembly on Nov. 13, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Madalaine Elhabbal

U.S. bishops embrace Dignitas Infinita to combat ‘widespread violation of human dignity’

Dignitas Infinita, issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in April, addresses growing concerns such as gender... Read more

Image of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, beside sealed boxes of documents compiled during the diocesan phase of his canonization cause.?w=200&h=150

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Diocesan phase completed for canonization of Father Pedro Arrupe

Nov. 14 marked the closing of the diocesan phase of the cause for the beatification of Father Pedro Arrupe, the... Read more