Minnesota bishops urge opposition to ‘Equal Rights Amendment’
Bishop Robert Barron. CNA file photo. / null CNA Staff, May 7, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis this week urged Catholics to join a rally to oppose a proposed constitutional amendment that they say “fails to protect Minnesotans from discrimination based on religion, could constitutionally mandate legal abortion […]
Federal grant fund for security at houses of worship boosted by $400 million
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. / Credit: Albert H. Teich/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 7, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA). A federal grant program that provides security funding for houses of worship and other nonprofits will receive $400 million more than it had the previous year amid rising threats, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]
The Significance of the Smile
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Why Tom Brady and Garth Brooks Will Be at the Vatican This Weekend
Wikimedia Commons Football star Tom Brady, Pope Francis, and country music singer Garth Brooks. Brady, Brooks, and other celebrity guests will meet Pope Francis in an audience at the Apostolic Palace on the morning of May 11.
Minnesota Bishops Urge Opposition to ‘Equal Rights Amendment’
null Bishop Robert Barron. CNA file photo. Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, speaking in a May 6 video message on behalf of the state’s bishops, warned that the proposal constitutes “an imposition of the sexual revolution on the people of our state.”
Pope Francis appoints new bishop to Diocese of Knoxville
Pope Francis on May 7, 2024, appointed Father James Mark Beckman, 61, a priest of the Diocese of Nashville, as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Knoxville. / Credit: Diocese of Nashville Rome Newsroom, May 7, 2024 / 11:50 am (CNA). Pope Franc… […]
Why Tom Brady and Garth Brooks will be at the Vatican this weekend
Singer-songwriter Garth Brooks (left), former NFL quarterback Tom Brady (right), and other celebrity guests will meet Pope Francis in an audience at Apostolic Palace on May 11, 2024, as participants in the Vatican’s World Meeting on Human Frater… […]
Uganda’s Catholic dioceses notified of limited stock of altar wine for Mass
null / Credit: © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk ACI Africa, May 7, 2024 / 13:32 pm (CNA). Catholic dioceses in Uganda have been notified of a limited stock of wine for Masses due to delays in shipping. In an April 30 letter to financial adminis… […]
Frontline caretakers understand the holiness of vulnerable strangers better than anyone
Many professionals who care for strangers are not religious workers, but they play a pivotal role in reinforcing imago Dei, the notion that all people are made in the image of God.
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