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China opens embassy in Nicaragua for 1st time since 1990
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — China opened an embassy in Nicaragua on Friday for the first time since 1990, acting just over three weeks since President Daniel Ortega’s government broke off relations with Taiwan. Foreign Minister Denis Moncada said there is an “ideological affinity” between the two countries. Moncada also thanked China for donating one million doses […]
Immigrants’ stories explored in book about sisters’ literacy center
AURORA, Illinois — While looking for a project so she could cross “write a book” off her bucket list, Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk thought about her time as an associate with the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois. She first thought of focusing the book on the sisters’ ministry in Peru and called her friend, Dominican […]
‘Ruff’ work: Dogs provide needed support in Baltimore Archdiocese
TIMONIUM, Maryland –Staff members at a Catholic Charities’ residential treatment program for children with behavioral and emotional needs were not having luck calming a boy during a recent screaming and yelling outburst. They couldn’t even get close enough to begin soothing the troubled youth. That’s when Carmen intervened. The 6-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, a trained […]
Bela Lugosi’s life takes fictional turn in new novel with Catholic themes
SAN DIEGO — Horror movie star Bela Lugosi is one of the main characters in “This Thing of Darkness,” a new book written by K.V. Turley and Fiorella De Maria. While the film legend was a real person, the story itself is a work of fiction. Not only that, it is a supernatural horror novel […]
Pope Francis: Let us place the new year under the protection of Mary
Pope Francis offers Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God in St. Peter’s Basilica on January 1, 2022. / © Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN/Vatican Pool Vatican City, Jan 1, 2022 / 09:35 am (CNA). On New Year’s Day, Pope Francis encouraged people to place their lives under the protection of Mary, the Mother of God. […]
Background: World Day of Peace 2022 (CWN)
On January 1, the Church commemorates the 55th World Day of Peace. Pope Francis’s message for the day, dated December 8 and released on December 21, is entitled “Dialogue Between Generations, Education and Work: Tools for Building Lasting Peace.”
Modi Backs Down
Modi Backs Down By Jo McGowan January 1, 2022 One of the most remarkable protest movements in the past hundred years ended a few weeks ago in India with a stunning victory. After more than a year of nonviolent demonstrations, the country’s farmers succeeded in forcing the repeal of three laws that would have deregulated […]
Pope Francis on New Year’s Day: “To hurt a woman is to insult God.”
Preaching on the feast of Mary, Mother of God, Pope Francis denounced widespread violence against women.
Archbishop Aquila Opens Parishes, Launches Emergency Fund for Victims of Colorado Wildfires
Courtesy photo Smoke from the 2021 Boulder County fire over Superior, Colo., Dec. 30, 2021. The fires affected mostly the suburban corridor between Denver and Boulder, an area that has seen the longest snowless winter.