Jesus challenges us in the Gospels to “love your neighbor as yourself.” But what if you struggle to love yourself? How can we pour ourselves out for others if we are not first filled up?

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jul 13, 2022 / 04:48 am Pope Francis on Wednesday named three women to the Dicastery of Bishops, the Vatican office responsible for evaluating new members of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy. The two religious sisters and one consecrated virgin are the first women to ever …

By CNA Staff Denver Newsroom, Jul 12, 2022 / 16:19 pm Half of the Chapels of Light at Our Lady of Lourdes shrine in France were destroyed by a fire during the night of July 10–11. The fire was quickly brought under control. “Another hard blow for the Shrine at Lourdes, …

by CNA Staff Denver Newsroom, Jul 12, 2022 / 13:00 pm Pope Francis has described it as an “incoherence” that President Joe Biden, a Catholic, is in favor of legal abortion. During an interview with Univisión and Televisa broadcast July 12, Pope Francis spoke about abortion and Biden’s position, after …

On July 13, the Catholic Church celebrates the memory of St. Henry II, a German king who led and defended Europe’s Holy Roman Empire at the beginning of the first millennium. St. Henry was born in 972 to Duke Henry of Bavaria and Princess Gisela of Burgundy. During his youth, …

by Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Jul 12, 2022 / 05:08 am Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed former Air Force chaplain and Fairbanks Bishop Chad Zielinski to lead the Diocese of New Ulm, Minnesota. The seat of the Diocese of New Ulm, which covers almost 10,000 square miles southwest of Minneapolis, …

Born in Florence, Italy, around the year 993, John was born into a noble family, and led a predictably frivolous life as a youth, being concerned only with the pursuit of vain amusements and romantic intrigues. However, when he was still a young man, his elder brother Hugh was murdered, …

by CNA Staff Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 11, 2022 / 20:18 pm A bogus Twitter account using the name of Georg Bätzing, the head of the German Bishops’ Conference, tweeted a false report Monday that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had died. The account, using the handle @BischofBatzing, was later removed. …

On July 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the sixth-century abbot who gave Christian monasticism its lasting foundation in Western Europe. For his historic role as the “Father of Western Monasticism,” St. Benedict was declared a co-patron of Europe (along with Saints Cyril and …

By Francesca Pollio Fenton Denver Newsroom, Jul 10, 2022 / 13:56 pm It may be an alarming proposal for some, but Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to make daylight saving time a thing of the past. Obrador submitted a bill on July 5 that, if approved, would allow Mexicans …