by AC Wimmer CNA Newsroom, Jun 20, 2024 / 14:19 pm Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on Thursday claimed that the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has initiated proceedings against him over the alleged crime of schism. Citing a document he published on his website and posted on social …

By Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Jun 14, 2024 / 11:30 am The Boston Celtics won their first NBA title since 2008 — and their head coach Joe Mazzulla has already decided what he will do. “We’re flying to Jerusalem and we’re walking from Jericho to Jerusalem,” Mazzulla said in an NBC …

By Peter Jesserer Smith National Catholic Register, Jun 19, 2024 / 04:00 am Juneteenth is a federal holiday recognizing the liberation of Black Americans and marking the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War. On June 19, 1865, enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, saw the Union Army, which included regiments of …

By Gigi Duncan Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 18, 2024 / 17:30 pm The head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Migration, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday praised the Biden administration’s new plan to offer a pathway to citizenship for undocumented spouses and …

By Joyce Duriga CHICAGO (CNS) — The life of Father Augustus Tolton already reads like a novel, but now it is illustrated in full color in a new graphic book produced in partnership with Liturgy Training Publications in Chicago and Editions du Signe in France. Father Tolton’s story — that …

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Jun 16, 2024 / 06:00 am A men’s group on the campus of Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida, is equipping young men with the tools necessary to become selfless husbands and loving fathers. The St. Joseph’s Men’s Group is made up of roughly …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 14, 2024 / 17:55 pm President Joe Biden privately met with Pope Francis early Friday evening in Apulia, Italy, at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit to discuss foreign policy and climate change. Francis is the first pope to address the G7 summit, which …

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jun 14, 2024 / 07:20 am Pope Francis got a chuckle from an audience of comedians on Friday morning after he suggested throwing away his prepared remarks for simply making people laugh with a silly gesture. Following the advice of St. Thomas Aquinas, who said, “Those …

By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Jun 14, 2024 / 11:00 am Pope Francis stressed that human dignity requires that the decisions of artificial intelligence (AI) be under the control of human beings as he participated for the first time in a G7 summit on Friday. “Faced with the marvels of machines, …

By Zelda Caldwell Louisville, Ky., Jun 14, 2024 / 08:00 am The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference in a speech to his fellow bishops gathered in Louisville, Kentucky, for their spring meeting discoursed on the subject of the incompatibility of “sex change” with the teachings of the Catholic Church. In …