Author: Catholic News Agency
Imprisoned Nicaraguan Bishop Álvarez appears in video posted by dictatorship
March 28, 2023
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El 19 Digital, a news media outlet supportive of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, posted a video of Bishop Rolando Álvarez in which he shares a few comments about how he is doing. The video shows him sharing a meal with his brother and sister during their visit to the prison. The prelate…
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Archbishop denounces attack on home for young drug addicts in Argentina
March 27, 2023
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Archbishop Ángel Sixto Rossi of Córdoba, Argentina, condemned an attack in his city on a home where young people recovering from addictions live. The prelate warned about the violent situation and its similarities to the city of Rosario, some 230 miles to the southeast, where there has been a sharp escalation of violence involving clashes…
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Discovering Pier Giorgio Frassati: Film sheds light on humanity, holiness of Italian blessed
March 26, 2023
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That Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati liked to go mountain climbing is not a surprise to those who know even a little about the 20th-century Italian youth’s story. “To the Top,” a new docudrama produced in cooperation with EWTN, uses this aspect of the blessed’s life as a focal point to better understand both Frassati’s humanity…
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New Orleans Auxiliary Bishop Ferd Cheri dies at 71 after lengthy illness
March 25, 2023
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Bishop Fernand (Ferd) Joseph Cheri III, OFM, a New Orleans native who had served since 2015 as auxiliary bishop of New Orleans, died March 21 at Chateau de Notre Dame in New Orleans following a lengthy illness. Cheri, 71, served most recently as administrator of St. Peter Claver Parish in New Orleans until kidney and…
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Argentine archdiocese repudiates destruction of blasphemous art exhibition
March 24, 2023
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Argentine archdiocese repudiates destruction of blasphemous art exhibition The Archdiocese of Mendoza, Argentina, repudiated the acts of violence that took place Monday afternoon against an art exhibition offensive to the Christian faith. The exhibition, titled “#8M Visual Manifestos,” is being exhibited during the month of March at the Rector’s offfice of the National University of…
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Pope Francis: The differences of others are an occasion to love better
March 21, 2023
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We should treat the physical and social differences of others as a chance to love, not as an inconvenience, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address on March 19. The pope’s weekly message focused on the day’s Gospel reading, which recounts Jesus’ miraculous healing of the blind man. Pope Francis pointed out the reactions of…
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Pope Francis hears confessions at Roman parish: God lifts us up when we hit ‘rock bottom’
March 20, 2023
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Pope Francis heard confessions at a parish in Rome on March 17 and encouraged people to remember that God “holds out his hand and lifts us up whenever we realize that we are ‘hitting rock bottom.’” In the presence of eucharistic adoration, the pope presided over a Lenten penitential service to open “24 Hours for the…
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Thousands turn out for pro-life march in Spain to oppose laws that threaten human life
Thousands turned out for the Yes to Life march in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, where the sponsoring organizations expressed their opposition to “all laws and practices that threaten life and human nature at any moment of its existence, as well as the businesses and ideologies that sustain them.” The event was held this year somewhat…
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Historic building near Vatican to become Four Seasons hotel
A Catholic order of knighthood has signed a leasing agreement that will allow a Four Seasons hotel to manage part of a historic building close to the Vatican. The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem signed an agreement with Fort Partners, a Miami-based development company, on March 10, according to a statement published Tuesday. The…
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Police looking for man who vandalized Connecticut Catholic church
Police are searching for a man who burglarized and vandalized Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Gales Ferry, Conn., early March 11. The Ledyard Police Department reported that the man broke into the church, smashing windows and attempting to break into rooms using a crowbar. The police reported that the man further vandalized the church…
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