Jim Graves

3 weeks ago | catholicworldreport.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |Jim Graves

(Image: Jorge Salvador / Unsplash.com)Francisca Awah carefully scours her 25-acre Cassava plantation in Cameroon’s East region, removing unwanted weeds and parasitic plants. “Our country has all this fertile land,” says the committed Catholic with a broad smile. “Why did I have to travel out of the country in search of the so-called greener pasture?” That question draws from the horrible experience she had when she travelled to the Middle Eastern country of Kuwait in 2015.

1 month ago | catholicworldreport.com | Almudena Martínez-Bordiú |Jim Graves

Alcide De Gasperi delivers a speech in Bologna, Italy, in 1951. / Credit: Democrazia Cristiana, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsMadrid, Spain, Feb 28, 2025 / 15:30 pm (CNA). The closing ceremony of the diocesan phase of the beatification process of Servant of God Alcide De Gasperi (1881–1954), an Italian politician recognized as one of the “fathers of Europe,” was held Friday at the Lateran Palace in Rome.

2 months ago | catholicworldreport.com | Eduardo Berdejo |Jim Graves

Sodality of Christian Life dissolution process gets underway By Eduardo Berdejo for CNA Archbishop Charles Scicluna (left) and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu (right). / Credit: Claudio Reyes/AFP/GettyLima Newsroom, Feb 4, 2025 / 13:50 pm (CNA). The Sodality of Christian Life reported that Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu Farnós, an official of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), has been named to carry out the process of dissolving the society of apostolic life. In a Feb.

2 months ago | catholicworldreport.com | Jim Graves |Carl Olson

(Images courtesy of Kendra Tierney Norton)On January 7, the Eaton fire broke out in the Angeles National Forest, which borders the Los Angeles County community of Altadena, just north of Pasadena. The massive fire eventually claimed 17 lives and destroyed 9,400 structures. While wildfires have been common over the years in the area, nothing has yet matched the destructiveness or intensity of this fire, with large sections of Altadena homes and businesses wiped out.

2 months ago | ncregister.com | Jim Graves

Recovery efforts continue in and around the particularly hard-hit historic community of Asheville where Catholics are coming together to rebuild.