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The J. Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters building in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2025 / 11:45 am (CNA).
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent who oversaw the Virginia [...]
A Sign from Saint Thérèse? Mother Who Lost Baby Sees Surprise Bloom After 200-Mile Relic Pilgrimage
I asked Saint Thérèse to pray for our safe travels and to say, 'Hey, if you see Ewan up there, please say hello and tell him we love him.'”
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On December 6, our family drove over 200 miles to spend [...]
100 schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria are released but more are still held
A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school last month and released over the weekend were hosted at a government-organized ceremony on Monday, many of them looking lost but relieved.
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MINNA, Nigeria — A total [...]
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Benedict XVI’s former secretary hopes the pope’s beatification process will open soon
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. / Credit: Alan Holdren/EWTN News
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 16:28 pm (CNA).
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, said he hopes the beatification process will begin [...]
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Is the Church committing suicide? Cardinal Zen’s warning
John-Henry Westen and a guest priest react to the latest crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass, this time from the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee. The discussion opens with Cardinal Joseph Zen’s grave warning that the Church is “committing suicide” [...]
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What is ‘papal infallibility?’ CNA explains an often-misunderstood Church teaching
CNA Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 06:00 am On Dec. 8 the Catholic Church celebrates the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception — a paramount feast in the Church’s liturgical calendar and one that indirectly touches [...]
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Leo’s first foreign trip an exercise in learning ‘how to pope’
During his first international trip to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV stepped onto the international stage and into the global spotlight in a way he hadn't yet, learning throughout the 6-day voyage "how to pope" at a whole [...]
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Christmas celebrations return to Bethlehem after 2 years of war in Gaza
For the past two Christmases, John Juka’s family restaurant looked about the same as any business in Bethlehem: Shuttered and eerily empty.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank — For the past two Christmases, John Juka’s family restaurant looked about the same as [...]
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Hidden Catholic histories come alive in new Black and Native American films
CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2025 / 07:00 am The Black and Indian Mission Office in Washington, D.C., recently released two documentaries — one highlighting African American Catholics on the path to sainthood and the focusing [...]
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‘Sons of Thunder’ vocations group teaches boys how to be Catholic men
CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2025 / 06:00 am A little over a year ago, Father Matthew Gonzalez, a priest in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, had the idea to create a group for boys [...]
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