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Will Catholics return to Mass after the pandemic? Many want to go more often

CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2020 / 04:08 pm MT (CNA).- The coronavirus pandemic is affecting the way many Catholics think about their faith, a new study has found, and just over half of Catholic likely voters say that once restrictions are lifted, they plan to attend Mass more frequently than …
Pope Francis: Children’s deaths in Israel-Gaza conflict ‘terrible and unacceptable’

CNA Staff, May 16, 2021 / 06:31 am America/Denver (CNA). Pope Francis made an impassioned appeal Sunday for an end to surging violence in the Holy Land. Speaking after the recitation of the Regina Coeli May 16, the pope expressed alarm at the Israel-Gaza conflict which has left more than …
Pope Francis urges scouts to ‘spread light and hope’

CNA Staff, May 14, 2021 / 12:00 pm America/Denver (CNA). Pope Francis urged scouts Friday to “spread light and hope” wherever they go. Addressing members of the Scouts Unitaires de France, a Catholic scouting movement founded in 1971, the pope appealed to young people not to become apathetic when confronted …
Pope Francis to discuss climate change with John Kerry at Vatican

by Courtney Mares Vatican City, May 14, 2021 / 13:00 pm America/Denver (CNA). Pope Francis will meet Saturday with U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, who is also a keynote speaker at a Vatican conference on financial solidarity and climate change. Kerry, who currently serves as the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy …
Polyglot priest beatified after miraculous healing of unborn baby

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, May 15, 2021 / 07:00 am America/Denver (CNA). A polyglot priest and founder of the Society of the Divine Savior was beatified at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on Saturday. Bl. Johan Baptist Jordan, also known by his religious name of Francis …
Metuchen seminarian killed in hit-and-run accident in New York City

By CNA Staff Metuchen, N.J., May 13, 2021 / 11:01 am America/Denver (CNA). A seminarian for the Diocese of Metuchen was killed Tuesday evening in a hit-and-run accident in Manhattan. Ngu Quoc “Peter” Tran, 29, was a first-year theology student at Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University in South …
U.S. bishops pray for peace as Israel-Hamas conflict rages

Washington D.C., May 13, 2021 / 09:01 am America/Denver (CNA). The U.S. bishops’ conference offered prayers for peace in the Holy Land on Thursday, as conflict between Israel and Hamas flared up this week. “We are greatly saddened that simmering tensions erupted into violence in the Holy Land this week,” …
Pelosi says she’s ‘pleased’ with Vatican letter to U.S. bishops on Communion

by Matt Hadro Washington D.C., May 13, 2021 / 16:00 pm America/Denver (CNA). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said she was “pleased” with the Vatican’s recent letter to U.S. bishops on Communion for pro-abortion politicians. Pelosi, who is Catholic, was asked by EWTN News Nightly correspondent Erik Rosales …
Helena priest Father Stu to be portrayed in film starring Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson

By Autumn Jones Helena, Mont., May 12, 2021 / 17:03 pm America/Denver (CNA). Father Stuart Long, who was a priest of the Diocese of Helena, is set to be the main character in a motion picture starring Mark Wahlberg as the priest himself and Mel Gibson as the priest’s father. …
‘I was in shock’: Polish cardinal recalls assassination attempt on St. John Paul II 40 years on

CNA Staff, May 13, 2021 / 03:05 am America/Denver (CNA). A cardinal has recalled the moment that St. John Paul II was shot in St. Peter’s Square 40 years on from the attempted assassination. The Polish pope collapsed into the arms of the then Msgr. Stanisław Dziwisz when he was …