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CNA Daily News - Europe ACI Prensa's latest initiative is the Catholic News Agency (CNA), aimed at serving the English-speaking Catholic audience. ACI Prensa (www.aciprensa.com) is currently the largest provider of Catholic news in Spanish and Portuguese.

  • Former spiritual director of 'Medjugorje visionaries' excommunicated
    on October 23, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    CNA Staff, Oct 23, 2020 / 05:48 pm (CNA).- A laicized priest who had been the spiritual director to six people who said they experienced visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje has been excommunicated. Tomislav Vlasic, who had been a Franciscan priest until he was […]

  • Munich archdiocese: Church tax income rises as record numbers depart
    on October 23, 2020 at 6:00 pm

    Rome Newsroom, Oct 23, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- The German Archdiocese of Munich and Freising announced Friday that it received 665 million euros in income from the church tax last year, despite a record number of Catholics in the diocese formally leaving the Church. Official figures released […]

  • Polish president Duda welcomes landmark abortion ruling
    on October 23, 2020 at 12:00 pm

    CNA Staff, Oct 23, 2020 / 06:00 am (CNA).- Polish president Andrzej Duda welcomed a landmark court ruling on abortion Friday. He told the newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Oct. 23 that he supported the constitutional court’s verdict that a law permitting abortion for fetal abnormalities was […]

  • Catholic educators 'united in solidarity' after France teacher attack
    on October 23, 2020 at 12:19 am

    CNA Staff, Oct 22, 2020 / 06:19 pm (CNA).- The president of the French bishops’ council for Catholic education expressed solidarity with the country’s school community following the beheading of a Parish school teacher in an Islamist terror attack last week. “In these dark hours, Catholic […]

  • ‘The Holy Land changed my life:’ Archbishop Pizzaballa on 30 years in Jerusalem
    on October 22, 2020 at 8:00 pm

    Rome Newsroom, Oct 22, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa has concluded his four-year mandate as apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Since 1990, shortly after his priestly ordination, the Italian bishop and Franciscan friar has lived in the […]

  • Polish court declares abortion in cases of fetal abnormalities unconstitutional
    on October 22, 2020 at 2:30 pm

    CNA Staff, Oct 22, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- Poland’s constitutional court ruled Thursday that a law permitting abortion for fetal abnormalities is unconstitutional. In the highly anticipated ruling Oct. 22, the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw declared that the law introduced in 1993 was […]

  • Polish city unveils giant St. John Paul II mural in centenary year
    on October 22, 2020 at 12:00 pm

    CNA Staff, Oct 22, 2020 / 06:00 am (CNA).- A Polish city has unveiled a giant mural of St. John Paul II in honor of the birth centenary of the pope whose feast day is celebrated Thursday. City authorities in Stalowa Wola, southeastern Poland, commissioned the portrait, which is 30 feet wide […]

  • Killer of martyred Italian nun: ‘I can have of her only a memory of love’
    on October 22, 2020 at 11:00 am

    Rome Newsroom, Oct 22, 2020 / 05:00 am (CNA).- The three teenage girls who killed Sr. Maria Laura Mainetti 20 years ago attested afterward that, while they were stabbing the 60-year-old religious sister to death, she told them she forgave them. “The sister cried out. She said she would not […]

  • Pope Francis: ‘The world has a profound thirst for peace’
    on October 20, 2020 at 8:00 pm

    Rome, Italy, Oct 20, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis affirmed the signal importance of peace at an interreligious gathering Tuesday on Rome’s Capitoline Hill. “We need peace. More peace. We cannot remain indifferent. Today the world has a profound thirst for peace. In many countries, […]

  • Shrine of patroness of impossible causes launches Lebanon prayer campaign
    on October 20, 2020 at 3:30 pm

    Rome Newsroom, Oct 20, 2020 / 09:30 am (CNA).- The Basilica of St. Rita, the patron saint of impossible causes, is launching a seven-month prayer initiative for Lebanon as the country faces an unprecedented economic and political crisis. “In prayer with St. Rita for Lebanon” will begin in the […]