Archive for November 4, 2024

Ben Kresse, a theology teacher at St. Xavier High School, shows a group of students how to uncover a temporary marker on a gravesite in Meadow View Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 21, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

In Louisville, Catholic high schoolers help bury the indigent dead

Catholic Charities of Louisville says its burial program provides services “for individuals in our community who do not have resources... Read more

John Kraemer shows off the interior of one of his Lego churches to an interested parishioner at Resurrection of the Lord Parish in Standish, Michigan.?w=200&h=150

By Jonah McKeown

Michigan man builds up the Catholic Church, one Lego at a time, for 25 years

Every year, for 25 years now, Kraemer assembles some 30,000 Lego bricks into a painstakingly intricate model of a Catholic... Read more

Archbishop Adrian Józef Galbas.?w=200&h=150

By CNA Staff

Pope Francis names Archbishop Galbas as new leader of Warsaw Archdiocese

The appointment was announced Monday by the apostolic nunciature in Poland. Read more

Pope Francis on Nov. 4, 2024, named Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey Grob as archbishop of Milwaukee.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis appoints Chicago auxiliary bishop to lead Milwaukee Archdiocese

With the Nov. 4 appointment, 63-year-old Bishop Jeffrey Grob will be returning to his birth state of Wisconsin. He was... Read more

Pope Francis prays during a Mass of suffrage for deceased cardinals and bishops in St. Peter’s Basilica on Nov. 4, 2024, at the Vatican.?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

Pope Francis offers Mass for over 120 deceased cardinals and bishops

Seven Catholic cardinals and 123 Catholic bishops died within the last 12 months. Six U.S. bishops were among the deceased... Read more

Heralds of the Gospel founder Monsignor João Scognamiglio Clá Dias.?w=200&h=150

By Monasa Narjara

Heralds of the Gospel founder dies at 85 

Monsignor João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, founder of the Heralds of the Gospel, died in the early morning hours of Nov.... Read more

Sister Annella Zervas, OSB, in her casket, after she died at 26 of a debilitating skin disease. August, 1926.?w=200&h=150

By Jonah McKeown

Sister Annella Zervas’ sainthood cause could be opened this month

At their planned annual plenary meeting in Baltimore, which begins Nov. 11, the USCCB plans to discuss opening her cause... Read more

Delegates at the 2024 Synod on Synodality participate in roundtable meetings on Oct. 10, 2024, in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican.?w=200&h=150

By CNA Deutsch

4 German bishops praise Rome synod, criticize German Synodal Way

The statement of the four bishops said “the goals of the German Synodal Way and the global Church process of... Read more

Members of a rescue team search for victims at Klatanlo village in East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, on Nov. 4, 2024, after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted overnight.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Volcano destroys Indonesia Catholic convent, killing religious sister

Sister Nikolin Padjo, head of a local monastery in Boru, Wulanggitang, died in the eruption, according to a report by ... Read more

Sister Clare Crockett is the subject of the documentary “All or Nothing.”?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Cause for beatification of Sister Clare Crockett opened

The congregation of Sister Clare Crockett, a young nun who died in 2016 during an earthquake in Ecuador, announced the... Read more