Pope Francis: Vatican nativity scene should prompt prayers for the Holy Land
null / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Dec 9, 2023 / 09:50 am (CNA). Pope Francis said today that the Vatican’s nativity scene this year should compel people to think of the Holy Land — both of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago, and also of the conflict currently engulfing the region. “While we […]
Pope Francis appoints Brazilian native as Boston’s new auxiliary bishop
Father Cristiano G. Borro Barbosa , 47, has been appointed by Pope Francis as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Boston. Dec. 9, 2023. / Credit: Archdiocese of Boston CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2023 / 10:26 am (CNA). Pope Francis has appointed a priest born and ordained in Brazil to serve as the next […]
WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday of Advent: “We escape neither the Enemy lion nor the glorious Lion of Judah”
Our Novus Ordo Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century. … Read More →
Report: Interstate travel for abortion doubled from 2020 to 2023
A pro-life woman kneels in prayer in front of the EMW Women’s Surgical Center, an abortion clinic, in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 8, 2021. / Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 9, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). More people are traveling outside of their state to receive an abortion after more than 20 […]
Meet the Franciscan friar who baptized St. Juan Diego
A painting of Franciscan missionary Pedro de Gante with Juan Diego, whom the friar baptized along with Diego’s wife in 1525. / Credit: CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). Many are familiar with the story of St. Juan Diego, whose feast is c… […]
Christmas 2023: A Catholic gift guide for the little ones on your shopping list
null / Credit: New Africa/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). With Christmas quickly approaching, it’s time to find gifts for the little ones on your shopping list. Faith-based toys and gifts are quickly becoming more and more… […]
World’s ‘largest living Nativity scene’ opens in Colombia
null / Credit: Anneka/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 9, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). Since Dec. 2, the faithful in Barranquilla, Colombia, have been able to visit the staging of “the largest Nativity scene in the world” where 90 actors interpret … […]
Review: ‘Silent Night’
NEW YORK (OSV News) – Nothing is calm and little is bright in the grisly revenge thriller “Silent Night” (Lionsgate). Though artistically interesting, the film is ethically repellent since it flies directly in the face of the divine avowal, “Vengeance is mine.” Screenwriter Robert Archer Lynn tells the story of Los Angeles electrician Brian Godlock […]
The Poetry of Lucille Clifton
The Poetry of Lucille Clifton By Christian Wiman December 8, 2023 To be conscious is to be conscious of suffering. Our own pain wakes us to the pain of others. These are truisms, which like most truisms gloss a complicated truth. Pain erases other people as often as it engenders sympathy for them. We may […]
World’s ‘largest living Nativity scene’ opens in Colombia
null / Credit: Anneka/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 9, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). Since Dec. 2, the faithful in Barranquilla, Colombia, have been able to visit the staging of “the largest Nativity scene in the world” where 90 actors interpret the moments before and after the birth of Jesus. The Nativity scene is set […]