Catholic News
- Cardinal Parolin meets with papal nuncios in Middle East (Vatican News)Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, met on January 13 with the apostolic nuncios serving in the Middle East, to discuss the challenges facing the Church in that region. The cardinal—who has been on a visit to Jordan, where he presided at the opening of a new church on the site of Jesus’ […]
- Tabernacle recovered intact from devastated Los Angeles church (Angelus)A firefighter in Los Angeles recovered the tabernacle from Corpus Christi church, four days after the church building had been reduced to ashes by wildfire. The tabernacle was intact; the Blessed Sacrament unharmed. Captain Bryan Nassour of the Los Angeles Fire Department said that he searched through the remains of the church after watching his […]
- US bishops' pro-life chairman stresses forgiveness after abortion (CNA)With a reminder that “no sin is beyond God’s unfathomable mercy,” the chairman of the US bishops’ pro-life committee has urged that those who have been involved in abortion accept God’s healing forgiveness. Bishop Daniel Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, in a statement looking forward to the January 22 anniversary of the Roe decision, also invoked […]
- Top Texas court grills attorney general on case against Catholic migrant shelter (El Paso Matters)Texas Attorney General Ryan Baasch met with heavy questioning by members of the state’s supreme court as he argued that a Catholic center for migrants should not be immune from prosecution for violating state laws regarding illegal immigration. “Annunciation House is not immunized because of its religion,” Baasch argued. He faced questions from judges who […]