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Mother Angelica. / Credit: Eternal Word Television NetworkACI Prensa Staff, Mar 24, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).Mother Angelica, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), CNA's parent company, once offered helpful advice for Holy Week.In a program broadcast in March 1994 before Easter, Mother Angelica offered five ways to be well prepared when the Easter Triduum begins. Her Holy Week recommendations continue to be wise and practical to this day:1. Repent and change your life.At the beginning of her reflections, Mother Angelica mentioned Marian apparitions and said that they all have in common the call to "repentance, a metanoia, a change of life."When the Virgin's message is followed, the person must make you "a better Catholic, a better Christian, it must make you a better individual, make you more loving, more kind, more forgiving. It has to make you appreciate Jesus more and appreciate our Mother, your family more.""It has to make you more loving in your family and ...
On Palm Sunday, hundreds of priests, bishops, cardinals, and lay people solemnly carried large palm branches in procession through St. Peter Square. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 24, 2024 / 09:45 am (CNA).On Palm Sunday, hundreds of priests, bishops, cardinals, and lay people solemnly carried large palm branches in procession through St. Peter Square to begin the first liturgy of Holy Week. "Dear brothers and sisters, since the beginning of Lent until now we have prepared our hearts by penance and charitable works," Pope Francis said in a soft voice at the beginning of Palm Sunday Mass on March 24. "Today we gather together to herald with the whole Church the beginning of the celebration of our Lord's Paschal Mystery, that is to say, of his Passion and Resurrection."Cardinals and bishops carry intricately decorated palm branches in the Palm Sunday procession in St. Peter's Square on March 24, 2024. Bénédicte Cedergren/EWTN NewsSpeaking in St. Peter's Square adorned with palm...
Pope Francis greets staff and families of RAI, Italy's national public broadcasting company, March 23, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 23, 2024 / 13:53 pm (CNA).Pope Francis on Saturday spoke on the important role public broadcasting plays in the transmission of information, serving the common good, and as an instrument to fight the spread of "fake news." "Your work is intended above all to be a response to the needs of the citizens, in a spirit of universal openness, with action capable of extending throughout the territory without becoming localist, respecting and promoting the dignity of each person," the pope said in a Saturday morning address to the managers, journalists, and staff of RAI, Italy's national public broadcasting company. The 87-year-old pontiff seemed to be in good spirits as he delivered the nearly 10-minute-long address. In the last month, the pope has relied on aides to deliver his Wednesday general audience and speeches as he recovered from...
View of the Vatican from the Tiber / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNACNA Newsroom, Mar 23, 2024 / 05:30 am (CNA).The Vatican and the German bishops have announced they will work together to resolve the controversial German Synodal Way. In a joint press release, the two parties on March 22 said further meetings would "develop concrete forms of synodality in the Church in Germany, which are in accordance with the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council, the requirements of canon law, and the results of the world Synod, and which will subsequently be submitted to the Holy See for approval."According to the press release by the German Bishops' Conference (DBK) and the Holy See on Friday evening, the meeting lasted "the entire day." It was characterized by "a positive and constructive atmosphere."The press release continued: "It was possible to discuss some of the open theological questions raised in the documents of the Synodal Way of the Catholic Church in Germany," saying "diffe...
The exterior of St. Joseph's in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. / Credit: Paula KydoniefsCNA Staff, Mar 23, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).A group of parishioners in the Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is celebrating this month after acquiring a historic church from the diocese and preserving it as a chapel and place of worship.The Society of St. Joseph of Bethlehem (SSJB) in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, announced earlier this month that the society had purchased St. Joseph's Church, which opened more than a century ago, from the Allentown Diocese."The desire to preserve the church by former parishioners has been steadfast since the church was closed in 2008," the society's board said in a letter announcing the purchase. "It has taken time and energy over the years to enter into an agreement with the Diocese of Allentown."On its Facebook page, the SSJB says its mission is "to restore and preserve St. Joseph's Church as a sacred place of worship and a testament to the history and cult...
Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Courtesy photo. / nullCNA Staff, Mar 23, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).A new Catholic, osteopathic medical school that will be housed on the campus of Benedictine College hopes to open in the fall of 2027, the project's founding president told CNA this week. Dr. George Mychaskiw, an osteopath and a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist, told CNA that the school in February completed its application to the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation, the body designated by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit programs that grant the doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO) degree. The planned school, first announced last September and dubbed the St. Padre Pio Institute for the Relief of Suffering, will adhere to Ex Corde Ecclesiae, St. John Paul II's 1990 apostolic constitution on the mission of Catholic colleges and universities. It will be housed on the campus of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, but as a separate inst...
A participant in a Women's March event Jan. 18, 2020, in San Francisco holds a "Pass the Equal Rights Amendment" sign while marching. / Credit: Sundry Photography/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA).Nevada Judge Erika Ballou ruled this week that the state must include abortion in its Medicaid program.This ruling effectively mandates Nevada taxpayers fund abortion. It is unclear whether the state will appeal the decision.Ballou did not give any explanation for her Tuesday ruling, only issuing a one-page order that granted a local pro-abortion group's request to strike down the Medicaid restrictions.  The pro-abortion group, called "Silver State Hope Fund," which provides grants for women seeking abortions, applauded the ruling, calling it a "historic day for Nevada."Represented by ACLU Nevada, Silver State Hope Fund filed a suit against the state's Health and Human Services Department in Augu...
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Cap-Haitien, Haiti / Rotorhead 30A Productions/ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Mar 22, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA).Amid the violence racking the country, the Haitian Bishops' Conference has issued a letter to the faithful that recalls Isaiah's prophecy: "No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise" (Is 60:18).Based on this hope for a country without violence, the prelates this week issued an urgent call for the end of the widespread violence and for the active search for peace and national reconciliation.In the letter, the prelates expressed their profound concern over the murders, the settling of scores, witch hunts, looting, and other acts of violence going on that have plunged the country into a major humanitarian crisis."This dream of a country without violence makes us raise our voices to call for an end to the acts that aim to ...
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, speaks at a press conference on the debt limit and the Freedom Caucus's plan for spending reduction at the U.S. Capitol on March 28, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).Four congressmen in the conservative House Freedom Caucus voiced "strong objections" to a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) plan to expand its coverage of in vitro fertilization (IVF) to unmarried veterans, including those in same-sex relationships.Under the previous rules, the VA only covered IVF treatments for married couples who produce their own eggs and sperm for the fertility treatment. The new policy will allow donor eggs and sperm and cover treatments for unmarried people who require such donations to create an embryo.The lawmakers, led by Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, expressed their dissent in a letter to VA Secretary Denis McDonough on March 20. He was joined ...
Pope Francis on March 21, 2024, laicized Bishop Emeritus of Bruges, Belgium, Roger Vangheluwe (center), years after the former prelate admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing his nephew when the latter was a minor. / Credit: Carolus, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsRome Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 09:40 am (CNA).Pope Francis has laicized Bishop Emeritus of Bruges, Belgium, Roger Vangheluwe, years after the former prelate admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing his nephew when the latter was a minor. The apostolic nunciature to Belgium said in a statement on Thursday that "serious new elements" had come to light regarding Vangheluwe, who resigned in 2010 after having admitted to the sexual abuse of his nephew from when the youth was 5 years old.The "new elements" included the recent testimony of a victim that led to a reexamination of the case. On March 8 the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith recommended Pope Francis dismiss Vangheluwe from the clergy. Francis "gran...
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