This year, the cinema had many hills and valleys. There was the inevitable collapse of the MCU, the massive success of a blue-collar plumber, the weird obsession with Barbenheimer, and the return of satirical shock […]
Pope Benedict XVI on April 21, 2007, in Vigevano, Italy. / Credit: miqu77/Shutterstock
Chicago, Ill., Dec 31, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
A brilliant thinker and prolific writer, Pope Benedict XVI wrote 66 books in his lifetime. His final work, “Wha… […]
Pope Francis presides at the annual celebration of “first vespers,” or evening prayer, for the vigil of the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, on Dec. 31, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Dec 31, 2023 / 12:55 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis r… […]
Pope Francis waves during his Sunday Angelus on Dec. 31, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Dec 31, 2023 / 10:21 am (CNA).
In his final Angelus address of 2023, Pope Francis paid tribute to Pope Benedict XVI on the one-year anniversar… […]
Tia, Miriam, Emanuel, and Josias (left to right) from the St. Lorenz Catholic Parish in Kempten, Diocese of Augsburg, Germany, December 2023. / Credit: Nicolas Schnall/Kindermissionswerk
Frankfurt, Germany, Dec 31, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).
For ov… […]
The funeral for Pope Benedict XVI, a statue that survived an earthquake, the remarkably well preserved body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, and Pope Francis at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, were among the top Catholic stories of 2023. / C… […]
There’s no mere listing the big news stories of the closing year, 2023. There were too many of them. If one had to pick three story areas, they would be the violent persecution of Christians […]
It was business-as-usual in New York’s Times Square on the evening of November 27, 2023. Bustling crowds hurried home from work or out to their favorite restaurant, or perhaps began their Christmas shopping. Taxis honked, […]
The document Fiducia supplicans (FS) of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) claims that priests may, in certain circumstances, give blessings to “couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples” (Víctor Manuel Cardinal […]
A screen grab from a video shared with ACI Africa that shows the parish house at St. Raphael Fadan Kamantan Catholic Church of the Diocese of Kafanchan in flames Sept. 7, 2023. / Credit: ACI Africa
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 30, 2023 / 09:5… […]
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