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St. Januarius and the miracle of the liquefaction of his blood contained in a relic. / Credit: WikipediaACI Prensa Staff, Dec 18, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese of Naples, Italy, announced that the miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius was repeated Saturday at the end of a Mass honoring him as the patron saint of the city.The Italian archdiocese reported on Facebook that at 10:35 a.m. on Dec. 16 "the announcement of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius was made" at the end of the Eucharist celebrated in the Royal Chapel of the Treasure of St. Januarius in the Naples cathedral.The Mass was celebrated by Monsignor Vincenzo De Gregorio, "on the occasion of the feast of the patronage of St. Januarius, which is traditionally accompanied by the hope of the prodigious liquefaction of the blood of the patron saint," the archdiocese said on its website.The miracle of liquefaction traditionally occurs three times a year: in commemoration of the transf...
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at the USCCB fall plenary assembly Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: USCCB videoWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 18, 2023 / 12:58 pm (CNA).The U.S. bishops over the weekend renewed their call for peace in the Holy Land amid reports on Saturday that two Christian women were killed by sniper fire from Israeli forces at the Holy Family Parish in Gaza.The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said on Saturday morning that "around noon" on Dec. 16, a sniper of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) "murdered two Christian women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where the majority of Christian families has taken refuge since the start of the war." Several others were also shot, the statement said."No warning was given, no notification was provided," the patriarchate said.The IDF denied culpability for the deaths, telling CNA in an emailed statement that "representatives of the church contacted the IDF regarding exp...
null / Credit: Elliott Cowand Jr/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Dec 18, 2023 / 15:02 pm (CNA).A proposed bill in New York state would result in Chick-fil-A being forced to leave a major highway system unless it opened on Sundays, a rule that would run afoul of the chain's decades-old policy of closing on the Christian Sabbath.The bill, listed on the state Legislature's website last week, dictates that "any contracts entered into by the New York State Thruway Authority for the operation of food services at public transportation facilities" shall require that those services "be provided every day of the week."The Thruway is a hundreds-of-miles-long network of state highways that run from New York City to the Pennsylvania border. It has existed in New York since the mid-1950s. A memo accompanying the bill says that "while there is nothing objectionable about a fast food restaurant closing on a particular day of the week, service areas dedicated to travelers is an inappropriate locati...
St. Peter's Basilica. / Credit: vvo/ShutterstockRome Newsroom, Dec 18, 2023 / 15:22 pm (CNA).The Vatican has issued new guidance on the topic of blessings of same-sex attracted people, stating that Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples as an expression of pastoral closeness without condoning their sexual relations. The ruling, which also applies to Catholics civilly remarried without having received an annulment as well as to couples in other "irregular situations," underscored that such blessings cannot be offered in a way that would cause any confusion about the nature of marriage, which the document affirms is the only "context that sexual relations find their natural, proper, and fully human meaning." "The Church's doctrine on this point remains firm," the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) said in its Dec. 18 declaration.The declaration emphasizes that blessings may only be given "spontaneously" and not in the context of a formal liturgical rite...
Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza at Christmas 2021. / Credit: Anas-Mohammed/ShutterstockRome Newsroom, Dec 18, 2023 / 10:35 am (CNA).The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has denied culpability over the deaths of two Christian Palestinian women who were reportedly killed at the Holy Family Parish complex in Gaza on Saturday morning.The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said on Saturday morning that "around noon" on Dec. 16, a sniper of the IDF "murdered two Christian women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where the majority of Christian families has taken refuge since the start of the war." Several others were also shot, the statement said."No warning was given, no notification was provided," the patriarchate said. "They were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the parish, where there are no belligerents."In an emailed statement to CNA, the IDF said that it had received the letter "describing a tragic incident that took place in the Holy Family Parish." On Saturday,...
Jimmy Lai at a Hong Kong protest. / Credit: Courtesy of the Acton InstituteCNA Staff, Dec 18, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).The trial for Jimmy Lai, the Catholic Hong Kong activist and newspaper publisher, opened Monday, launching what is expected to be a protracted legal exhibition capping several years of imprisonment for the embattled pro-democracy advocate.Lai has been an outspoken advocate of human rights and democratic freedoms in Hong Kong for years. He founded the tabloid Apple Daily in 1995, which took a strong pro-democracy stance in the administrative region. The activist was originally arrested in August 2020 under that year's controversial national security law, which was passed by China's communist-controlled government. The law sharply curtailed free speech in the region in an effort to quash what the Chinese Communist Party considered subversion and sedition in the separately administered region of Hong Kong.Lai himself was accused of colluding with foreign adversa...
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, and Bishop Earl Fernandes. / Credit: Dennis Callahan/Archdiocese of San Francisco; Joaquin Peiro Perez/CNA; Joe Bukuras/CNACNA Staff, Dec 17, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA).Serving at the altar for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen played a major role in one U.S. cardinal's vocational journey. For another bishop, falling to his knees at the tomb of St. Peter was a pivotal moment. And an archbishop said the "beauty and majesty" of the Church's liturgy aided him along his spiritual journey. This past November at the U.S. bishops' conference in Baltimore, three U.S. prelates serving different dioceses across the country shared their vocation stories with CNA. Each of them said yes to God and never looked back. 'Something adventurous'San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, 67, told CNA: "I always knew I wanted to do something worthwhile with my life, something to make the world a better place, something adventurous and unconv...
Live Action's new website on the development of a child through pregnancy, windowtothewomb.app. / Credit: windowtothewomb.appCNA Staff, Dec 17, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to have a window into the womb?Well, that's exactly what the pro-life group Live Action has attempted to provide with its new interactive website windowtothewomb.app.The website launched Dec. 14 walks users through each trimester of pregnancy, day by day, by presenting an animated baby's development starting from conception."The main idea behind the web app was to present something groundbreaking and something that was medically accurate," Live Action spokeswoman Christina Bennett told CNA Friday. Users can either watch an animated video that progresses through each day of development or they can click through each week at their own speed. When clicking through the weeks, users will be able to read notes on the screen that describe certain aspects of the child's de...
Pope Francis waves to pilgrims during his Angelus address on Dec. 17, 2023. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Dec 17, 2023 / 11:20 am (CNA).In the latest sign of escalating strain between the Holy See and Israel over the mounting civilian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis after his Angelus address on Sunday sharply condemned the reported killing of two women outside a Catholic church in Gaza City, allegedly by an Israeli sniper."Someone says, 'It's terrorism, it's war.' Yes, it's war, it's terrorism. This is why Scripture states that 'God stops wars ... breaks bows and breaks spears,'" the pope said.In a statement Saturday, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which oversees the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, claimed that a sniper of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) "murdered two Christian women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where the majority of Christian families has taken refuge since the start of the war." The statement said there was no warnin...
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