by Matt Hadro Washington D.C., Jul 29, 2021 / 15:00 pm The House this week passed spending bills that would allow funding of abortions both in the United States and abroad. On Thursday afternoon, the House voted 219-208 to pass a large spending bill without customary prohibitions on federal funding …

by Kevin J. Jones Denver Newsroom, Jul 29, 2021 / 18:29 pm The Catholic health care network Ascension will mandate coronavirus vaccination for its employees, physicians, volunteers, and vendors. It cited a need for more action to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic and promised some exemptions to the mandate for people …

by Matt Hadro Washington D.C., Jul 28, 2021 / 17:05 pm The sacrament of confession must be part of the U.S. bishops’ discussions on worthiness to receive Communion, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States said on Wednesday. Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, said at …

by Joe Bukuras Washington D.C., Jul 28, 2021 / 15:03 pm Students and professors at the Catholic University of America (CUA) are building a full-scale truss replicating that which was destroyed in a 2019 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. On the lawn in front of the Basilica of …

by CNA Staff Rome, Italy, Jul 28, 2021 / 13:00 pm The Vatican unveiled Thursday the official image of the 2022 World Meeting of Families in Rome. The image, painted by the Slovenian Jesuit Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, was released July 28 by the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life …

by Jose Torres Jr. Manila, Philippines, Jul 27, 2021 / 12:55 pm Philippine Catholic bishops congratulated the country’s first-ever Olympic gold medalist, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, not only for her victory but for her show of faith and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Diaz’s triumph came in the women’s 55-kilogram …

by Gretchen Siegel Denver Newsroom, Jul 28, 2021 / 06:00 am Not much is popularly known about Blessed Stanley Rother, the small town Oklahoma native who was declared blessed in September 2017 by the Catholic Church. One of the newest blesseds, he became a priest and missionary at a parish …

by Joe Bukuras Washington D.C., Jul 26, 2021 / 12:45 pm After pro-abortion protesters obstructed a July 10 pro-life rosary procession in Brooklyn, a priest leading the procession compared it to a “Way of the Cross.” Pro-life advocate Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, CFR helped lead the “Witness for Life” prayer procession …

by Diego Lopez Marina ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 26, 2021 / 14:20 pm The director of the Hispanic Development Unit of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Ana Gloria Rivas-Vásquez, called for Catholics around the world to help Cuba, especially its elderly, afflicted by what she calls a “hunger pandemic.” “In addition …

St. Panteleon, whose feast we celebrate on July 27, is the patron saint of bachelors and physicians. As lifelong layperson, he was the physician for emperor Maximinianus. At one point in his life he had abandoned his faith, but he eventually returned to the Church, and gave his fortune to …