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Good News Cruise 2025

Join Chris and Joe as they float away on the Good News Cruise 2025. Listen to and rub elbows with some of your favorite Catholic Speakers. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Fr. Mike Schmitz, Dr. Ray, Teresa Tomeo, Fr. Josh Johnson and many more. Go to GoodNewsCruise.com to sign up and don’t forget to use Promo Code: RB […]

BREAKING: New norms give Vatican greater say on alleged apparitions

Breaking News / CNA Rome Newsroom, May 17, 2024 / 05:33 am (CNA). The Vatican’s top doctrinal office is centralizing its authority over the investigation of alleged Marian apparitions and other religious phenomena under new norms it issued Friday, a break from past protocols that gave local bishops greater autonomy in discerning such cases. While […]

Peru’s government considers transexualism a mental health problem: what you need to know

null / Credit: Juanje Garrido/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, May 17, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A few days ago, the government of Peru published a supreme decree in which “transsexualism” and “gender identity disorder” are considered “mental health problems,” among other points, causing controversy even within agencies of the executive branch.  On May 10, the […]

BREAKING: New Norms Give Vatican Greater Say on Alleged Apparitions

Rudolf Gehrig The DDF’s prefect, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who signed the document, held a press briefing for journalists at the Vatican Friday May, 17, 2024. The new norms take effect on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, abrogating the previous norms established under Pope Paul VI in 1978.

Catholic pilgrimages in the United States: a new renaissance?

Catholic pilgrims on the Katy Trail Pilgrimage begin the route from Augusta on Oct. 9, 2023. / Jonah McKeown/CNA CNA Staff, May 17, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). This weekend, the longest Catholic pilgrimages ever organized in the United States — poss… […]

The House-Endorsed Definition of Antisemitism Provokes a Rift with Christianity

Above: American politicians march against antisemitism on November 14, 2023. Image credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP. When the House of Representatives voted 320 to 91 last week in support of the Antisemitism Awareness Act, with only 21 Republicans opposing the bill, the dumbfounded reaction of conservative commentators shows that they didn’t listen carefully to Candace Owens’ recent […]