The Church of St. Luke

Image of the Divine Mercy. / Credit: EWTN News In Depth

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 7, 2024 / 10:10 am (CNA).

The Divine Mercy Chaplet is a pious practice revealed to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska by Jesus himself that has spread throughout the world.

St. John Paul II (1920-2005). / Credit: Itto Ogami via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

National Catholic Register, Apr 7, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA).

Pope John Paul II made teaching and spreading Divine Mercy a keystone of his pontificate.

“A retreat is a moment of prolonged personal encounter, without distractions, with God, and in God, with oneself," says Father Guillermo Serra. / Credit: Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 6, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).

Four Catholic priests share their reflections in answer to a simple but very important question for the life of faith: Why go on a spiritual retreat?

A room at the former hospice facility run by the Delta Hospice Society in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian government in 2020 ended a $1.5 million funding contract with Delta Hospice over the organization’s refusal to implement medical assistance in dying (MAID). Then British Columbian Fraser Health Authority terminated the property lease with Delta Hospice, which shut the facility down.  / Credit: Photo courtesy of Delta Hospice Society

CNA Staff, Apr 6, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).

The president of Delta Hospice Society is promoting a new film to raise awareness of the “predatory doctor-assisted suicide regime” of the Canadian government.

View of a pantheon built by the Red Cross to bury the bodies of irregular migrants at the Municipal Cemetery of El Real de Santa Maria, Darien Province, Panama, on March 8, 2023, on the eve of its delivery to Panamanian authorities. The Red Cross constructed the hundred niches pantheon to bury the bodies of irregular migrants who die during their journey through the inhospitable Darien jungle in search of the American dream. / Credit: LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 5, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA).

The inhospitable Darién jungle has for years become an unavoidable route for hundreds of thousands of migrants who want to reach the United States.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet takes part in the Pontifical Council for Culture's Plenary Assembly on Women's Cultures in Rome on Feb. 6, 2015. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA.

CNA Newsroom, Apr 5, 2024 / 13:10 pm (CNA).

A French court has fined Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, PSS, and others for the wrongful dismissal of Sabine Baudin de la Valette, formerly Mother Marie Ferréol.

Father Javier Sánchez, 60, from the Archdiocese of Zaragoza in Spain died April 4, 2024, a victim of burns suffered when his liturgical vestments caught fire from a candle during the Easter Vigil on Saturday, March 30. / Credit: Óscar Cortel/Archbishopric of Zaragoza

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 4, 2024 / 14:55 pm (CNA).

According to the Spanish newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón, sources from the archdiocese said Father Javier Sánchez “tried to protect the nuns of the convent."

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ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 4, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).

Father Francisco “Patxi” Bronchalo said among the wounded he sees “children broken by very hard life experiences in the most intimate of environments.”

Guinness World Records recognized Juan Vicente Pérez Mora as the oldest man in the world on Feb. 4, 2022, when he was 112 years old and 253 days old. / Credit: Guinness World Records

CNA Staff, Apr 4, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA).

Juan Vicente Pérez Mora was awarded the oldest man in the world distinction by Guinness World Records on Feb. 4, 2022, when he was 112 years and 253 days old.

As smoke billows from the Ministry of Finance building behind them, people leave the area after hearing gunshots from armed gangs near the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 2, 2024. / Credit: CLARENS SIFFROY/AFP via Getty Images

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA).

The Haitian Conference of Religious reported that a minor seminary run by the Spiritan Fathers was attacked April 1 by crime gangs.