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- How the tradition of Dutch flowers at the pope’s Easter Mass was saved 20/04/2025Dutch flowers decorate St. Peter’s Square for Easter Sunday Mass 2019. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). In early 2022, some Dutch Catholics were dismayed to learn that a 37-year Easter tradition would not continue. The Netherlands, known for its fields of flowers, had for more than three […]
- The surprising Catholic origins of England’s hot cross bun 18/04/2025According to Stephen de Silva, St. Albans Cathedral’s longest-serving guide of more than 45 years, religious brothers who lived in the cathedral’s abbey in the 14th century invented the original hot cross bun for both charitable and catechetical reasons. / Credit: Photo courtesy of St. Alban's Cathedral Rome Newsroom, Apr 18, 2025 / 04:00 am […]
- Iconic Holy Week processions in Seville vividly portray the Passion 17/04/2025The Mystery of the Brotherhood of San Benito processes through the surroundings of the cathedral of Seville on Holy Tuesday, April 15, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Joaquín Carmona Seville, Spain, Apr 17, 2025 / 13:01 pm (CNA). The Holy Week processions in the Andalusian capital are one of Spain’s most iconic traditions. Every […]
- Britain’s highest court rules in favor of biological women 16/04/2025Susan Smith (left) and Marion Calder, co-directors of For Women Scotland, with campaigners celebrate outside the U.K. Supreme Court in London on Wednesday April 16, 2025, after the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act were ruled to refer to a biological woman and biological sex. / Credit: Press Association via AP Images Washington, […]
- Army chaplain in Dublin court forgives, embraces teen who nearly killed him 16/04/2025Father Paul Murphy exits the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on Thursday, April 10, 2025, after giving a victim impact statement in a sentencing hearing for a boy who stabbed him. / Credit: Press Association via AP Images Dublin, Ireland, Apr 16, 2025 / 12:26 pm (CNA). An Irish priest whose arm was almost severed […]