2020

Fr. Matthew Dajo, who was kidnapped Nov. 22 in Nigeria’s Abuja archdiocese. Public Domain A Nigerian archbishop has asked for prayers for the safe release …

Priest is a beautifully shot film chronicling life in the Bradford parish of ‘Mary, Mother of God’ in non-pandemic times from the beginning of Lent to …

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn at the Vatican April 8, 2016. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn deplored Friday an attack on a rabbi in the Austrian …

A detail from a graphic promoting the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life campaign. Credit: Vatican Media. A Vatican dicastery launched a new campaign Friday …

Julia Rynkiewicz, a student at the University of Nottingham in the UK Credit: ADF International. A pro-life undergraduate student in a midwife program has received an …

Image Source: CBCEW The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has called for individual Catholics to respond to an open consultation on the …

Image Source: CBCEW Cardinal Nichols wrote to all MPs expressing his concerns about UK spending cuts on overseas aid. In his letter calls on all …

A detail from Timothy P. Schmalz’s sculpture, ‘Angels Unawares.’ Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Coronavirus lockdowns revealed a “glaring contradiction” in attitudes towards migrants, a Vatican diplomat …

Protesters in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, Sept. 13, 2020. Credit: Homoatrox/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). The Catholic bishops of Belarus appealed Wednesday for a …

Sr. Wanda Boniszewska (1907-2003). Credit: episkopat.pl. Sr. Wanda Boniszewska led an extraordinary life. The Polish nun was a reputed stigmatist tortured by Stalin’s secret police. …

Chur Cathedral in Switzerland. Credit: Adrian Michael (CC BY-SA 3.0). A Swiss Catholic diocese that elects its own bishop from a shortlist drawn up by …

Credit: Twin Design via Shutterstock. On the same day that Pope Francis approved the beatification of 127 Catholics killed in Spain in hatred of the …

A medical mask on a gargoyle of Notre-Dame in Paris. Credit: Viacheslav Lopatin via Shutterstock. After a strong reaction by French Catholics to the government’s …

Image Source: CBCEW The government has confirmed that collective worship can resume in churches and other places of worship when the national lockdown expires on …

Pope Francis speaks during a general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace. Credit: Vatican Media. Catholics risk going astray if they neglect the …

Pro-life prayer outside an abortion clinic. Credit: Diocese of Saginaw. Pro-choice activists are calling on the Scottish government to ban prayer and public discussion of …

Pope Francis. Credit: Vatican Media Pope Francis advanced yesterday the sainthood causes of several men and women, including two Italian priests of the 20th century …

First Communion at at St. George Chaldean Catholic Church in Telskuf, Iraq. Courtesy of Fr. Karam Shamasha. Iraqi Christians are trying to face challenges with …

Paolo Gabriele sits in front of Pope Benedict XVI in the popemobile in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 24, 2011. Credit: Alan Holdren/CNA. The papal butler …