Becoming Catholic: Everything you need to know about OCIA
Fom the Easter Vigil Mass in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, April 2025. / Credit: John McElroy CNA Staff, Jun 4, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The recent election of Pope Leo XIV has sparked new…
Pope Leo XIV taps Pittsburgh Auxiliary Bishop Mark Eckman to lead diocese
Pittsburgh Bishop-elect Mark Eckman / Credit: Courtesy of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Vatican City, Jun 4, 2025 / 07:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appointed Pittsburgh Auxiliary Bishop Mark Eckman to lead the…
Pope Leo extends olive branch to Jews, sends subtle message on Gaza
ROME – As with any new papacy, there is a risk in these early days of over-interpreting every word or action from Leo XIV, and while that is real, when it comes to current Vatican-Jewish…
Anti-Christian incidents in India state of Odisha trouble Church leaders
MUMBAI, India – In India, two anti-Christian incidents in the state of Odisha have disturbed the peace-loving Christian community, which has already been traumatized by harassment by rightwing extremists. On Sunday, Sister Rachana Nayak was…
How to Find Wonder Amid the Shifting Sands of Our Age
Tolkung‘Milky Way Over the Desert’ Modernity has dulled our sense of the sacred. Here’s how it happened — and how beauty, faith and worship can reignite it.
Karol Nawrocki Wins Polish Presidential Election With Catholic Values Platform
Marek Antoni Iwaczuk/SOPA ImagesKarol Nawrocki, presidential candidate of the Law and Justice Party (PiS), speaks to supporters following the Polish presidential runoff election on June 1, 2025 ‘Poland’s strength lies in its faith and family…
How Greed Threatens Middle East Christians
Last month, St. Catherine’s Monastery, located in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, was seized by the government. COMMENTARY: Power politics of the rich and numerous against the dwindling and powerless is very…
Pope Leo, unity in the Church and applications to family and marriage
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.01.2025).- On the morning of Sunday, June 1, Pope Leo presided at Holy Mass on the occasion of the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly. The Mass was…
Why the Philippines faces nine vacant dioceses
The miraculous image of Jesus Nazareno making its way through the streets of Manila, surrounded by thousands of devotees during the Traslacion procession celebrated annually on January 9, / Courtesy of the Minor Basilica and…
Why the Philippines Faces Nine Vacant Dioceses
Courtesy photoThe miraculous image of Jesus Nazareno making its way through the streets of Manila, surrounded by thousands of devotees during the Traslacion procession celebrated annually on January 9, In March of this year alone,…