From the Washington Post to the Maronite convent: Meet Mother Marla Marie
Mother Marla Marie stands on the front porch of the sisters’ Mother of the Light convent in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Boston, Mass., May 4, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). It was 1983, in the last years of the Cold War, when 21… […]
First Arab Christian woman to lead Israel’s University of Haifa
Professor Mouna Maroun is the first Arab to be elected as the rector of an Israeli university, the University of Haifa. Maroun belongs to the Arab minority in Israel, the Christian minority among Arabs, and the Maronite minority among Christians… […]
New palliative care hospital brings ‘sweetness of Mary’ to poorest in Peru
A patient at the new Misky María Palliative Care Hospital located on the outskirts of Lima, Perú. / Credit: Asociación de las Bienaventuranzas (Association of the Beatitudes) ACI Prensa Staff, May 4, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). In the context of the… […]
Sunday reflection: Profound Love
SUNDAY 5 May 2024: SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Readings:Sunday readings: Acts10:25-26.34-35.44-48/Psalm98:1.2-3.3-4(see2b)/1John4:7-10/John15:9-17
Saints at Work: The prayer of a holy journalist before dying for the freedom of the Catholic press
CNA/ACI Prensa— World Press Freedom Day is celebrated every May 3, drawing attention to the importance of free and independent news media. Among modern-day saints, there is a journalist-priest who suffered martyrdom by the Nazis for his work in Catholic media: St. Titus Brandsma. St. Titus (1881–1942), canonized by Pope Francis in 2022, was a… […]
Latin patriarch of Jerusalem takes possession of Rome titular church after delays due to war
CNA/ACI Prensa—Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, finally took possession on May 1 of his assigned titular church in Rome after having postponed the ceremony due to the war in the Holy Land. Part of the process of becoming a cardinal is being assigned a titular church in Rome known as his… […]
Columbia’s Catholic chaplain: Campus protests were pushed by ‘explicitly communist’ outsiders
CNA—Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, said on Thursday that the protests making national headlines at the New York City school are being organized in part by “explicitly communist” outside forces. “There is an instrumentalization of what’s going on in Gaza to advance an agenda,” he said. “And that is to deconstruct… […]
Columbia’s Catholic chaplain: Campus protests were pushed by ‘explicitly communist’ outsiders
Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News The World Over / Screenshot Washing… […]
The Miracles of Our Lady of Champion
Just northeast of the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, lies the site of a magnificent miracle. And today that site—the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion—is the only approved Marian apparition site in the […]
We need some real perspective on AI and evangelization
A few years ago on YouTube, there was a brief and fascinating fad for “tensegrity tables.” Tensegrity is a portmanteau combining “tensional” and “integrity,” and refers to structures whose parts are held together by a […]