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UK bishop responds to report saying Catholics reduced Mass attendance due to abuse crisis
Posted on 10/19/2024 10:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
London, England, Oct 19, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
A recent study in the U.K. showed that a third of Catholics who previously went to Mass have reduced their attendance or stopped going altogether.
Paris archbishop condemns firing of Catholic school principal accused of violating secular laws
Posted on 10/17/2024 21:40 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA).
Catholic schools in France, which are state-funded, are allowed to maintain their religious identity and offer catechism classes so long as they are not mandatory.
Over 500 Belgians demand removal from baptismal registry after Pope Francis remarks
Posted on 10/17/2024 18:05 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Brussels, Belgium, Oct 17, 2024 / 14:05 pm (CNA).
After the pope’s visit to Luxembourg and Belgium in late September, 524 people have signed a declaration published Oct. 16 in Brussels.
Italy criminalizes surrogacy sought by Italian citizens abroad
Posted on 10/17/2024 13:10 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Rome Newsroom, Oct 17, 2024 / 09:10 am (CNA).
With the Oct. 16 vote, Italy will amend its law to extend its jurisdiction to criminalize even surrogacy “committed abroad.”
St. Ignatius of Antioch: the early Church Father who longed for union with Christ
Posted on 10/17/2024 08:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
CNA Staff, Oct 17, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA).
On Oct. 17, the Catholic Church remembers the early Church Father, bishop, and martyr St. Ignatius of Antioch.
British army veteran convicted of praying silently near abortion clinic
Posted on 10/16/2024 21:10 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
CNA Staff, Oct 16, 2024 / 17:10 pm (CNA).
A British army veteran and Christian has been found guilty of praying silently outside of an abortion clinic, facing an almost $12,000 fine over the verdict.
UK leaders hit back at plan to introduce assisted suicide
Posted on 10/16/2024 17:45 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
London, England, Oct 16, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA).
Catholic leaders in the U.K. have hit back at plans to introduce assisted suicide in England and Wales in a key debate.
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Posted on 10/16/2024 09:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
CNA Staff, Oct 16, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA).
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French nun responsible for spreading the devotion of the Sacred Heart throughout the Western Church.
This princess saint was not Harry Potter’s owl: St. Hedwig of Silesia
Posted on 10/16/2024 08:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Vatican City, Oct 16, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA).
St. Hedwig of Silesia was a princess, wife, mother, and builder of bridges between the German and Polish people.
Scotland’s Pluscarden Abbey: the northernmost Benedictine monastery in the world
Posted on 10/14/2024 10:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct 14, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
In northeast Scotland, six miles southwest of Elgin in Moray, stands Pluscarden Abbey, the northernmost Benedictine abbey in the world.