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New film on the life of Blessed Carlo Acutis to hit theaters in 2025
Posted on 07/5/2024 10:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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CNA Staff, Jul 5, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
“Roadmap to Reality: Carlo Acutis and Our Digital Age” was announced by Castletown Media on July 1 and is expected to hit theaters in spring 2025.
12 amazing facts about the life of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Posted on 07/4/2024 08:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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CNA Staff, Jul 4, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The young Italian who is expected to be canonized in the coming year became a popular role model soon after he died on July 4, 1925, at the age of 24.
Lourdes bishop wants to tear down Rupnik mosaics — but not yet
Posted on 07/3/2024 10:38 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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Rome Newsroom, Jul 3, 2024 / 06:38 am (CNA).
The Lourdes bishop’s announcement comes less than two weeks after he met with Pope Francis in a private audience at the Vatican on June 20.
Russian forces release two Ukrainian Catholic priests captured in 2022
Posted on 07/1/2024 20:00 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 1, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need announced the release of two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests who were captured in November 2022.
400,000 Germans quit Catholic Church as talks between Vatican, Synodal Way continue
Posted on 07/1/2024 13:45 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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CNA Newsroom, Jul 1, 2024 / 09:45 am (CNA).
The meeting on Friday resulted in Rome demanding the Germans change the name of the body and agree it cannot have authority over the bishops’ conference.
Court fines Belgian cardinal, archbishop for denying woman admission to diaconate
Posted on 06/27/2024 21:15 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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CNA Staff, Jun 27, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA).
The two prelates will have to pay 1,500 euro (about $1,605) each, the court ordered.
Opus Dei founder St. Josemaría Escrivá: You can be a saint doing your ordinary job
Posted on 06/26/2024 21:50 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 26, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA).
Today the Catholic Church honors St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (1902–1975), Spanish priest, founder of Opus Dei, and author of “The Way.”
Conference in Rome highlights Pacific islands’ climate peril and calls for global action
Posted on 06/26/2024 18:15 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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Rome, Italy, Jun 26, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
Organized by the Australian Embassy to the Holy See, the June 23 event aimed at raising awareness of the impacts of climate change in the Asia Pacific.
Former Anglican priest ordained a Catholic bishop
Posted on 06/25/2024 21:45 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 25, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA).
Bishop David Waller received his episcopal ordination in Westminster Cathedral in London on June 22, the feast of English saints John Fisher and Thomas More.
Catholic authorities in Spain excommunicate, expel renegade nuns
Posted on 06/24/2024 21:00 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 24, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
The Catholic Church in Spain has decreed the excommunication and expulsion from consecrated life of the Poor Clare nuns of Belorado for committing schism.