Archive for August 12, 2024

“I’m alway looking to do something that makes people say ‘Wow!’ and stop people in their tracks,” said artist Tim Schmalz in reflecting on his more than 30 years as a sculptor.?w=200&h=150

By Martin Barillas

Catholic artist Tim Schmalz brings Scripture to life with sculpture

Schmalz, 52, recently created a massive bronze crucifix that was installed outside St. John the Evangelist Church in downtown Indianapolis. Read more

Holy Mass at Mount Calvary Catholic Church in Baltimore. The pastor, Father Albert Scharbach, told CNA that “families need to be fed spiritually; that’s the priority.”?w=200&h=150

By Peter Pinedo

What is the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter and why is it flourishing?

Despite the rapidly secularizing culture in the U.S., many of the ordinariate’s parishes, known for their reverent liturgies and respect... Read more

Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley Executive Director Sister Norma Pimentel speaks to reporters on May 8, 2023, in Brownsville, Texas.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Catholic bishops reject claims that Catholic nonprofits facilitate illegal immigration

“Catholic organizations cooperate in providing humanitarian aid with local, state, and federal officials,” the bishops’ statement read. Read more

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin (left) and Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian.?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Vatican urges Iran to avoid ‘in any way’ escalating conflict in Middle East

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, spoke on the phone on Monday morning with Iran’s new president, Masoud... Read more

The president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), Bishop Sithembele Anton Sipuka.?w=200&h=150

By Silas Isenjia

South African bishop decries government inaction on alleged ISIS operations

Bishop Sithembele Sipuka said the group is destructive based on its activities in Mozambique and Nigeria. Read more

Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union Archbishop Noël Treanor at the EU council headquarters on May 27, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Irish archbishop and apostolic nuncio to EU Noël Treanor dies at 73

Before being appointed nuncio in late 2022, Treanor served as bishop of the Diocese of Down and Connor. Read more

An aerial view of Baltimore skyline on Dec. 1, 2016.?w=200&h=150

By Jonah McKeown

Baltimore judge rules ‘baby bonus’ proposal unconstitutional

If ultimately approved, the “baby bonus” measure would create a fund that would issue one-time $1,000 payments to parents in... Read more

Jimmy Lai and other demonstrators had been convicted in 2021 of taking part in what the Hong Kong government had argued was an “unauthorized assembly” at Victoria Park in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay neighborhood.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Hong Kong court rejects Catholic democracy activist Jimmy Lai’s appeal of 2021 conviction

Lai and other demonstrators had been convicted in 2021 of taking part in what the Hong Kong government had argued... Read more

People look on as an excavator helps search for people trapped under debris after a landfill collapsed in Kampala, Uganda, on Aug. 10, 2024. Eight people including two children were killed when mountains of garbage collapsed at a landfill, the city authority said.?w=200&h=150

By Jonah McKeown

Garbage landslide kills nearly two dozen people in Uganda

The 36-acre garbage dump known as Kiteezi is the only one serving the whole of the Ugandan capital, a city... Read more

Anastasia Northrup founded the National Catholic Singles Conference.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Catholic women discuss the challenges of modern dating culture 

A quarter of 40-year-olds in the U.S. had never been married, Pew Research found in 2021. The Catholic marriage rate... Read more

Father Denis Martínez-García, was arrested on his way to celebrate Mass in Matagalpa, pictured here.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Dictatorship in Nicaragua arrests two more priests and two laywomen

The priests and laywomen are from Estelí and Matagalpa, both dioceses officially led by Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who has been... Read more

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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

Monica Biboso and her employer, Ester Rot, while celebrating Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) in the dining room of Kibbutz Be'eri in 2022. “I don’t feel like a hero because I saved Ester” during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Biboso told CNA. “I would do anything to save her. I just treated her like my mother. Every child would do the same.”

‘Without God, I wouldn’t be here’: Catholic woman recounts survival of Oct. 7 Hamas attack

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