2014-05-08T18:31:00+00:00

Last updated on: May 8, 2014 at 6:31 pm   By

Cambridge, Mass., May 8, 2014 / 12:31 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Harvard student group’s plans to re-enact a satanic black mass on campus has prompted outrage from Catholics who say that the event is not educational, but sacrilegious, offensive and d... Read more

2014-05-08T14:00:00+00:00

Last updated on: May 8, 2014 at 2:00 pm   By

Vatican City, May 8, 2014 / 08:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his daily Mass Pope Francis reflected on attitudes necessary to evangelize, emphasizing the need to leave room for the grace of God instead of putting our own bureaucratic obstacles in the way. ... Read more

2014-05-08T10:16:00+00:00

Last updated on: May 8, 2014 at 10:16 am   By

Vatican City, May 8, 2014 / 04:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Dubbed as “China’s youngest prisoner of conscience,” Zhang Anni and her sister Ruli have voiced their opposition to the government’s vicious treatment of their father, who r... Read more

2014-05-08T10:11:00+00:00

Last updated on: May 8, 2014 at 10:11 am   By

Washington D.C., May 8, 2014 / 04:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Boko Haram kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls follows years of “ineffective” U.S. policy and analysis that ignored the Islamist extremists’ motives, one critic ... Read more

2014-05-08T08:03:00+00:00

Last updated on: May 8, 2014 at 8:03 am   By

Vatican City, May 8, 2014 / 02:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A University of Dayton investigation in 2013 found “reasonable cause” to believe that former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Miguel Diaz sexually harassed a married couple while a profe... Read more

2014-05-08T06:08:00+00:00

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Vatican City, May 8, 2014 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A rabbi and a sheikh, both of whom are friends of Jorge Bergoglio from Buenos Aires, will be accompanying him on his pilgrimage to Jordan, Palestine, and Israel later this month. Abraham Skorka ... Read more

2014-05-07T20:08:00+00:00

Last updated on: May 7, 2014 at 8:08 pm   By

Vatican City, May 7, 2014 / 02:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis encouraged the bishops of Burundi to engage with civil society and proclaim the Gospel in order to promote justice and reconciliation in the fragile society. “I can only encou... Read more

2014-05-07T16:45:00+00:00

Last updated on: May 7, 2014 at 4:45 pm   By

Abuja, Nigeria, May 7, 2014 / 10:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal John Onaiyekan of Abuja has called for “concrete action” to save the hundreds of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, saying his country is “ashamed” by the failure to... Read more

2014-05-07T12:53:00+00:00

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Vatican City, May 7, 2014 / 06:53 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During his General Audience on Wednesay, Pope Francis reflected on the Holy Spirit’s gift of counsel, explaining that through it we learn to be docile to the Lord rather than attached to our ... Read more

2014-05-07T10:49:00+00:00

Last updated on: May 7, 2014 at 10:49 am   By

Vatican City, May 7, 2014 / 04:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The priest who is organizing Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Jordan has written a special prayer for the occasion with the aim of allowing the world to participate. “This prayer take... Read more

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