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by Solène Tadié Krakow, Poland, Mar 23, 2022 / 13:00 pm In the month since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than two million people have crossed the border with Poland seeking refuge. In the Polish city of Kraków, the local Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski has shown his support for …

by CNA Staff Vatican City, Oct 22, 2021 / 16:10 pm You probably know that St. Pope John Paul II was the second longest-serving pope in modern history with 27 years of pontificate, and he was the first non-Italian pontiff since the Dutch Pope Adrian VI in 1523. But did …

by Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Oct 20, 2022 / 05:00 am After announcing Bishop John P. Dolan lost his sister to death by suicide, the Diocese of Phoenix on Wednesday renewed his “urgent plea to get mental health ministry underway.” “Our hearts are breaking as we make known the loss …

by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Oct 19, 2022 / 13:23 pm A study that claims to be the largest national survey of Catholic priests conducted in more than 50 years has found that despite relatively high levels of personal well-being and fulfillment among priests as a whole, a significant …

by Courtney Mares Vatican City, Oct 18, 2022 / 11:00 am The cause for beatification of Sister Lucia dos Santos, the eldest child to witness the Fatima apparitions, has taken a step forward. In a meeting at the Vatican, the postulators for Lucia’s cause submitted the “positio” document containing testimonies …

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Oct 17, 2022 / 16:11 pm Mark Houck, the Catholic pro-life father of seven who was arrested last month after a controversial early-morning FBI raid at his home, says Mother Teresa’s nuns in the Missionaries of Charity have placed a photo of his family on …

by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Oct 17, 2022 / 17:00 pm The Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. Luke the Evangelist on Oct. 18. Luke, who wrote the Acts of the Apostles as well as the Gospel that bears his name, likely incorporated the Blessed Virgin Mary’s testimony into …

by Courtney Mares Rome Newsroom, Oct 17, 2022 / 08:50 am Two Catholic priests killed by Nazis while ministering to the dying amid the Boves massacre were beatified as martyrs on Sunday in northern Italy. In the face of grave danger, Father Giuseppe Bernardi and Father Mario Ghibaudo “did not …

by Edie Heipel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 15, 2022 / 06:00 am October 15 is the feast of St. Teresa of Ávila, when the Catholic Church remembers the Spanish Carmelite reformer and Doctor of the Church whose life of prayer serves as an example for many Catholics today. Teresa Sanchez …

Students and other participants hold signs at the 2020 March for Life in Washington, DC, on Jan. 24, 2020. Credit: Peter Zelasko/CNA
by Edie Heipel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 13, 2022 / 10:45 am The 2023 theme for the annual March for Life was announced Thursday in preparation for the first march after the historic overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide. The theme of the …