Author: Catholic News Agency
St. Peter’s Basilica to hold monthly Eucharistic adoration on portico
March 12, 2023
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St. Peter’s Basilica will now host an hour of Eucharistic adoration on its front portico once a month. Beginning March 14, adoration will take place every second Tuesday from 8-9 p.m. on the parvise in front of the Vatican basilica leading to St. Peter’s Square. The holy hour, according to a press release, is part…
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UN calls on Nicaragua to free Bishop Álvarez and other political prisoners
March 8, 2023
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called on the Nicaraguan dictatorship to release Bishop Rolando Álvarez and other political prisoners. The Daniel Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua sentenced the bishop of Matagalpa to 26 years and four months in prison on Feb. 10 on several charges that included being…
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Pope Francis to visit Hungary in April
March 5, 2023
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The Vatican announced recently that Pope Francis will visit Hungary for the second time, from April 28-30. According to the February 27 announcement, the three-day papal trip to Budapest will include meetings with Hungary President Katalin Novák, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a private visit with children at the Blessed László Batthyány-Strattmann Institute, and meetings with…
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Spanish government reproached for lack of response to jihadist attack on churches that left one dead
March 4, 2023
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The Observatory for Religious and Conscience Freedom (OLRC) has reproached the Spanish government for its “silence and inaction” in the face of a jihadist attack perpetrated last month in Algeciras, a town on the southern end of the Iberian peninsula near the Strait of Gibraltar. The president of the OLRC, María García, sent a letter…
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New book gives Pope Francis’ responses to issues he’s most often asked about
March 2, 2023
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A new Spanish-language book whose English title is The Shepherd: Francis’ Challenges, Reasons, and Reflections on His Pontificate, written by Argentine journalist Sergio Rubín and his Italian colleague Francesca Ambrogetti contains Pope Francis’ answers to questions he is frequently asked. The book reviews the almost 10 years of Francis’ pontificate based on conversations that Rubín,…
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Survivor of Turkey earthquake: ‘God protected me and the Virgin Mary did not leave me’
March 1, 2023
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Only a few hours after Bassel Habkouk, a young Lebanese Catholic and father of two, arrived for a visit in Turkey on Feb. 6, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country and nearby Syria. Habkouk found himself trapped underneath the rubble of fallen buildings for 52 hours as a result of the devastating earthquake, which killed…
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Catholic priest from Ukraine gives Pope Francis cross made out of war rubble
February 24, 2023
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Father Vyacheslav Grynevych vividly remembers the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine one year ago. The Catholic priest woke up to a phone call: “Father, wake up because the war has started.” “I understood that my life would never be the same as before,” Grynevych said. As the executive director of the…
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Cuban bishops ask the faithful to pray for the Church in Nicaragua on Ash Wednesday
February 23, 2023
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The bishops of Cuba have called on the faithful to offer prayers on Ash Wednesday for the persecuted Church in Nicaragua, where the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega has exiled several priests and sentenced the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, to 26 years in prison. In a February 18 message, the Cuban prelates referenced Pope Francis’…
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God, creation, and humanity: The ‘lost lectures’ of Benedict XVI collected in new book
February 21, 2023
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Six lectures of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger were almost lost forever. But now, they have been collected in a new Ignatius Press book, “The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and Church.” “It’s a wonderful summation of what God intends in creating us and redeeming us, in six lectures. It’s just a great find,” Father Joseph Fessio,…
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Pope Francis encourages filmmakers to ‘reawaken wonder’
A good movie has the power to inspire wonder and to evangelize by reflecting the beauty of God’s creation, Pope Francis told filmmakers at the Vatican on Monday. “Dear friends, the world troubled by war and so many evils needs signs, works that inspire wonder and that reveal the wondrousness of God who never ceases…
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