Pope Francis with Cardinal Sako in 2020. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 12, 2025 / 17:55 pm (CNA). The Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, said with emotion that most of the Iraqi population has been distressed by Pope Francis’ extended hospitalization and that even “Muslims are praying for his recovery.”…

Jay Bhattacharya testifies during a US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on his nomination to be Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 5, 2025. / Credit: Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2025 / 18:20 pm…

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly on March 12, 2025 that said she has “limited authority” to cancel the “black mass,” instead decreeing that the event must take place outside, and not inside the capitol building itself. / Credit: Nils Huenerfuerst|Wikipedia| CC BY 4.0 CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2025 / 18:55 pm (CNA). Amid outcry from Catholics over a…

Sebastian Lai speaks to EWTN News Nightly Anchor Tracy Sabol on his father’s imprisonment, Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2025 / Credit: EWTN News Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 12, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Sebastian Lai, son of Hong Kong Catholic democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, said this week his father is “still fighting for his beliefs” while…

null / sergign/Shutterstock. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 12, 2025 / 17:30 pm (CNA). A federal judge has ordered the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to make foreign aid payments to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for completed work, but gave administration officials some limited authority in deciding how money will be spent moving forward. Trump issued…