Archive for August 11, 2024

The Tuan Ma statue is paraded around Larantuka City during the Semana Santa Holy Week celebrations on Flores Island.?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

3 Marian holy sites in the Muslim nation of Indonesia

Records dating back to the 16th century indicate that the first Catholic traditions in Indonesia were established following the first... Read more

Brody Malone poses alongside his father, John, after the U.S. men’s gymnastics team won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games on July 29, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Gigi Duncan

Father of Olympic gymnast Brody Malone speaks of son’s faith following bronze medal win

Brody Malone, who won a bronze medal alongside Team USA’s men’s gymnastics team, has been outspoken about his Christian faith... Read more

Opus Dei prelate Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz is seen here during his visit earlier this month to Perú.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Opus Dei prelate’s visit to Venezuela postponed 

Opus Dei announced the postponement of the visit to Venezuela of Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, the head of the personal prelature. Read more

Pope Francis greets pilgrims at the Sunday Angelus at the Vatican, August 11, 2024?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis: True faith opens the mind and the heart

“Brothers and sisters, when faith and prayer are true, they open the mind and the heart; they do not close... Read more

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Christian worshippers pray at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024.

Pope Francis: ‘Prayer and fasting are the weapons of love that change history’

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance arrives to speak at a Trump-Vance campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 5, 2024.

JD Vance signals Trump administration will defund Planned Parenthood

Fire and smoke rise at an area targeted by an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Oct. 6, 2024.

Beirut under fire: Church officials call for peace

Members of St. Monica Widows Group pray during Mass at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Ojolla Parish in the Archdiocese of Kisumu in Kenya.

Widows group in Kenya rescues Catholic women from polygamy, ‘wife inheritance’

Delegates attend a session of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops at the Paul VI Hall on Oct. 5, 2024, in Vatican City.

Women deacons off the table? Synod delegate claims ‘some women sense a call to priesthood’

Panelists discuss how the transgender movement is impacting young women in particular at the 2024 Pray Vote Stand Summit panel “Saving America’s Daughters: Title IX and the Fight for Fairness.” From left to right: moderator Joseph Backholm, Macy Petty, Doreen Denny, and William Bock.

Pray Vote Stand Summit panelists push back against administration’s trans agenda

The faithful stand at attention for the national anthem at the archdiocesan Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024.

Archdiocese of Washington celebrates annual Red Mass ahead of Supreme Court term

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh (left) and Neil Gorsuch (right) arrive for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2024.

Kavanaugh: Supreme Court made ‘important strides’ for religious freedom in recent years

Parish-based Trinity House Community groups are now active in 25 parishes in nine states, including 12 parishes within the Diocese of Arlington. Each parish pays an annual subscription cost to gain access to the turnkey program (videos, discussion questions, handouts, core team guides). Most of the gatherings take place on Saturday evenings in the parish hall, following the anticipatory Mass, and last 90 minutes. Many of the groups (also called "Heaven in Your Home Gatherings") are 50-70 attendees, but some are as large as 125 or more.

Catholic Church tackles parental stress crisis with support programs and resources

From left to right: Deacon Omar F.A. Gutierrez, notary in the cause for canonization, Steve Wolf, vice postulator in the cause for canonization and a Boys Town alumnus, and Father Ryan Lewis, JCL, the archbishop’s delegate.

New film on life of Father Flanagan hopes to advance priest’s cause for canonization

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