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null / Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 15:46 pm (CNA). Massachusetts federal judge Indira Talwani on Tuesday issued a ruling blocking the provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that stopped taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion centers. In the July 21 ruling, Talwani unilaterally decided that…
The grounds at the Sanctuary of La Sainte-Baume. / Credit: Sanctuary of La Sainte-Baume Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 16:17 pm (CNA). Tucked away in a rocky mountain in southeast France is a cave formed by natural erosion called La Sainte-Baume. It is one of the oldest Christian pilgrimage sites in the world…
Church property sits vandalized at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Sunday, July 19, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Pittsburgh CNA Staff, Jul 22, 2025 / 12:32 pm (CNA). Federal agents are investigating a vandalism incident at a church in the Diocese of…
Zurich, Switzerland. / Credit: Gianfranco Vivi/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 08:42 am (CNA). Swiss prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Zurich councillor and former Green Liberal Party leader after she posted images of herself firing approximately 20 shots at a Christian image depicting the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. According to…
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (left) and Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on July 22, 2025. / Credit: AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images Rome Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 09:38 am (CNA). Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa spoke on Tuesday about the devastation…
The Mississippi state capitol building. The Mississippi Access to Maternal Assistance (MAMA) program connects mothers and families with assistance from state and faith-based organizations like Catholic Charities. / Credit: Paul Brady Photography/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Mississippi is promoting family, motherhood, and pro-life policies through its Mississippi Access to…
Sebastião Marques Panzo, director of the National Secretariat for the Apostolate of the Laity of the Bishops’ Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST). / Credit: ACI Africa ACI Africa, Jul 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The upcoming Third National Congress of Catholic Laity in Angola will be a defining moment for…
“The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene” by Alexander Ivanov, 1834-1836. / Credit: Alexander Ivanov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Newsroom, Jul 22, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Not much is known about the life of St. Mary Magdalene, whose feast day is celebrated in the Church on July 22. She first appears in…
William Jennings Bryan (seated at left) being interrogated by Clarence Seward Darrow, during the trial of the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, July 20, 1925. Because of the extreme heat, the proceedings were moved outdoors. / Credit: Smithsonian Institution from United States, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 21, 2025…
Father Gabriel Romanelli, parish priest at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family who was wounded in a recent strike on the church, stands before the altar during a Sunday morning Mass held by the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem at the church in Gaza City on July 20, 2025. / Credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via…
