A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts.
www.catholicnewsagency.com
-
The former archbishop of Paris plans to sue a French magazine for defamation. The magazine Paris Match published photos of the archbishop taken with a telephoto lens. The photos show the former archbishop having lunch with a 46-year-old consecrated virgin, followed by a walk. The woman is reportedly also considering legal action.
New statistics suggest forty-five priests and four bishops have died from COVID-19 in Venezuela, since the start of the pandemic. A little more than twenty percent of priests were infected with the virus.
A prayer movement is making its way across Europe, and the world. The initiative began last week in Austria, in response to a new wave of the coronavirus. More than a thousand people prayed the rosary together, at several hundred locations across the country. The prayer movement is spreading to Germany, Switzerland, and even the United States.
The oldest known nativity scene figurines are on display in Rome. The marble statues were sculpted by an Italian architect in the late 13th century. They were commissioned by Pope Nicholas the Fourth, the first Franciscan pope.
Today is the feast of Saint Adelaide. Adelaide was born in 931 in France.