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James Earl Jones, legendary actor and Catholic convert, dies at 93

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Sep 9, 2024 / 18:15 pm James Earl Jones, a distinguished actor of stage and screen who was a convert to the Catholic faith, died Monday at age 93. Known for lending his booming voice to such characters as Darth Vader in the “Star Wars” saga …
Phil Donahue, talk show pioneer and ‘lapsed Catholic’ who courted controversy, dies at 88

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 17:20 pm Phil Donahue, a self-described “lapsed Catholic” who reinvented the daytime television talk-show format beginning in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in New York at age 88. Born in Cleveland in 1935 and raised in a Catholic family, Donahue …
Will a Buffalo Catholic church become a mosque? Here’s what to know

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 13, 2024 / 15:32 pm After a viral social media post on Sunday highlighted the sale of a prominent Catholic church in Buffalo to a Muslim group, the timeline for the church’s ultimate conversion to a mosque remains unclear. The Diocese of Buffalo sold the former St. …
Pope Francis acknowledges conference for ‘LGBT Catholics’

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 2, 2024 / 17:51 pm Pope Francis this week said he is “united in prayer” with those participating in a conference for Catholics who identify as LGBT taking place this weekend in Washington, D.C. Father James Martin, a controversial Jesuit priest who founded the pro-LGBT group Outreach …
Study on priest and religious student debt finds it can be a barrier to vocations

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 1, 2024 / 08:00 am A new study on student debt by a major Catholic research group, released today, sheds light on the challenges debt poses to prospective Catholic priests and religious as well as to U.S. dioceses and religious institutes. The researchers found that a discerning …
Bishops Barron and Paprocki stress the importance of ‘inviting Catholics back to Mass’

By Jonah McKeown CNA Newsroom, Jul 26, 2024 / 11:30 am Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester and Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield — both Chicagoans who have known each other since the early days of their priesthood — recently sat down to discuss the most important aspects of living the Catholic …
PHOTOS: Massive Eucharistic procession through downtown Indianapolis

By Jonah McKeown Indianapolis, Ind., Jul 20, 2024 / 23:45 pm Thousands of people lined the streets of Indianapolis July 20 for a one-mile Eucharistic procession from the Indiana Convention Center to the Indiana War Memorial, taking the National Eucharistic Revival to the streets in the most public display of devotion and unity of the …
National Eucharistic Congress begins in Indianapolis: ‘We did this for you, Lord’

By Jonah McKeown, Courtney Mares Indianapolis, Ind., Jul 18, 2024 / 09:35 am After years of planning and anticipation, the National Eucharistic Congress officially kicked off Wednesday evening with the triumphant culmination of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimages, the solemn entry of the Eucharistic Jesus in a papally-blessed golden monstrance, and speeches from Catholic luminaries that set …
Bishop Zaidan condemns ‘any targeting of civilians’ at Holy Family School in Gaza

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Jul 10, 2024 / 13:57 pm Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, offered support Wednesday for a Catholic school in Gaza after an alleged Israeli raid over the weekend and reported civilian casualties. “The …
Charles Carroll of Carrollton: a ‘patriotic’ Catholic Founding Father

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Jul 4, 2024 / 04:30 am Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a man of superlatives. Out of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Carroll was the wealthiest. He was also the longest-lived of all the signers, surviving to the ripe old age of 95. But perhaps …