Month: December 2024

It’s pretty odd, isn’t it? In our age in which all sorts of things having to do with our private parts are shouted from TikTok and blared from the YouTube …

Our God is an amazing God—a Father who loves and cares for us more than we could ever fathom. He chose a beautiful young woman for His mother. He chose …

null / Credit: Darthennode/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 31, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). On New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, and the first day of the new year, the Catholic …

Pope Francis on Dec. 29, 2024, appointed Bishop Roberto Calara Mallari as new bishop of the Diocese of Tarlac in the Philippines. / Credit: Diegohanyu16/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 Vatican City, Dec …

Fifteen new saints and sixteen new blesseds were honored in the two canonization ceremonies and eleven beatification ceremonies that took place in 2024. Then, a week before Christmas, sixteen Discalced …

The Syrian town of Maaloula. / Credit: Valery Shanin/Shutterstock ACI MENA, Dec 31, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA). In the weeks since Syria’s government was overthrown, the Christians of Maaloula, …

Participants pray during a peace walk in Baltimore promoted by the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024. / Credit: Yvonne Wenger CNA Staff, Dec 31, 2024 / 14:00 pm …

St. Mary’s Basilica in Phoenix. / Credit: Sarunyu L/Shutterstock CNA Deutsch, Dec 31, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Two of Arizona’s Catholic bishops joined last week with a group of …

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on April 7, 2012. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Dec 31, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Cardinal Kurt Koch celebrated a pontifical Mass at the …