US State Department Hits Nicaraguan Officials With Visa Restrictions
Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua The U.S. Department of State over the weekend announced visa restrictions against dozens of Nicaraguan officials amid broad civil-liberties violations from the country’s government, including the seizure of a Jesuit university in the country’s capital city.
California’s New Abbey is Inspiring Young Men to Join the Priesthood
Courtesy photo A group of men studying to become priests at St. Michael’s Abbey in California. Today, St. Michael’s Abbey has 70 men living in it, half of whom are priests and the other half who are seminarians.
‘Fear is driven out by perfect love,’ Vatican secretary of state tells South Sudanese
Cardinal Pietro Parolin (middle) and apostolic nuncio in Kenya and South Sudan, Archbishop Hubertus van Megen (left), are received in the Diocese of Rumbek by Bishop Christian Carlassare (right) on Aug. 17, 2023. / Credit: Father Erick Wanyonyi … […]
German cardinal disappointed over staff’s attempts to access pornography
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne. Credit: www.ewtn.de. / null CNA Newsroom, Aug 21, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA). Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki expressed profound disappointment over an internal IT report finding that employees in his Archdioces… […]
Pope Francis meets U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley
Pope Francis meets with U.S. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for a private audience at the Vatican on Aug. 21, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Aug 21, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA). Pope Francis had a private audie… […]
Jean-Louis Georgelin, ‘architect of Notre Dame’s rebirth,’ dies during hiking trip
Jean-Louis Georgelin, former chief of staff of the armies and CEO of the public establishment in charge of the conservation and restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, waits for the delivery by barge of the timber truss to the cathedral du… […]
Lawmaker warns of Chinese communists changing the Bible
null / Ryk Neethling via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 21, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA). The chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party warned on Thursday of efforts from the Chinese government to subver… […]
U.S. State Department hits Nicaraguan officials with visa restrictions
A woman exits the Universidad Centroamericana (Central American University) in Managua on Aug. 16, 2023. The Jesuit Central American University (UCA) of Nicaragua announced the suspension of all its activities after a court ordered the confiscat… […]
Jesuit residence in Nicaragua seized by Ortega regime
Nicaraguan officials ratcheted up a harassment campaign targeting Jesuits in Managua over the weekend.
Excommunicated Nuns?
On this episode of The Download Brad Eli, Christine Niles and Kyle Kopy delve into the rift between Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, prioress of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, and Bp. Michael Olson.