Teresa Agulló, defender of the Cross of Callosa de Segura in Spain. / Credit: Platform in Defense of the Cross of Callosa de Segura

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 27, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).

Teresa Agulló Cayuelas was fined for her efforts to prevent the removal of an emblematic cross in Callosa de Segura, a small town in southeastern Spain.

The Roman Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem. / Credit: Jacob Stein/Crux Stationalis

Rome Newsroom, Mar 27, 2023 / 07:53 am (CNA).

Jacob Stein is visiting a church in Rome each day of Lent this year.

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ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 26, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).

Parents of students at a Marianist school in Spain expressed their “stark distrust” in the Marianists and in their sex ed program “Created to Love.”

Bishop Erik Varden O.C.S.O, of the Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim, Norway, at the vespers at Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome. / Daniel Ibáñez / CNA

Rome Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 14:40 pm (CNA).

The pastoral letter was read aloud at Mass at Catholic churches in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland.

Bishop Franz-Josef Bode of the Diocese of Osnabrück served as vice president of the German bishops' conference from 2017 to 2023. / Courtesy of Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von Lachner

CNA Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 08:56 am (CNA).

Bishop Franz-Josef Bode had previously refused to step down despite an abuse report finding he had mishandled cases in his diocese. 

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ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 24, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).

Bishop José Ignacio Munilla charged that the court’s decision was one “in which ideology supersedes reason and law.”

The Frauenkirche, the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. / Diliff via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.5)

CNA Newsroom, Mar 22, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).

A potential legal case against Pope Benedict XVI over his handling of abuse during his time as archbishop of Munich has been dropped.

Poster for “To the Top,” a film about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, at the Italian premiere in Rome on March 18, 2023. / Credit: Adi Zace/CNA

Rome, Italy, Mar 22, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA).

“To the Top” is a new docudrama produced in cooperation with EWTN that explores the humanity and holiness of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.

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ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 19, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).

The soon-to-be new priests come from Germany, Colombia, Chile, South Korea, Canada, Brazil, El Salvador, Spain, the United States, Italy, Mexico, and Venezuela.

A detail from Joseph with the Child and the Flowering Rod, by Alonso Miguel de Tovar (1678–1752). Public Domain.

CNA Staff, Mar 19, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA).

Why a little-known book by an 18th-century visionary could be inspiring reading on this feast of St. Joseph.