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Normally busy streets in Manhattan are deserted April 10, 2020, after officials imposed a COVID-19 lockdown. / Credit: George Wirt/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 13, 2025 / 13:50 pm (CNA). The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic five years ago this week, on March 11, 2020. Every diocese in the U.S. curtailed public Masses…
Father Marko Rupnik. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Rome Vatican City, Mar 13, 2025 / 11:50 am (CNA). A media report says the Vatican’s doctrine office could be close to a decision in the case of the ex-Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik. According to OSV News, a “sentence is expected in the not too…
null / Credit: Syda Productions/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 13, 2025 / 12:20 pm (CNA). An Ohio Catholic hospital has resolved a legal dispute in which it alleged that city authorities violated its constitutional rights in attempting to force it to perform a drug search on a patient. Mercy Health, the city of Lorain, and Lorain…
St. Thomas University announced on Feb. 27, 2025, its plans for a 99,000-square-foot nursing college building. / Credit: Photo courtesy of St. Thomas University CNA Staff, Mar 13, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Amid Florida’s nursing shortage, a Catholic university in the Archdiocese of Miami is expanding its nursing department following top test scores by…
Highlands El Encinar School in Madrid. / Credit: Courtesy of Highlands School Madrid, Spain, Mar 13, 2025 / 06:40 am (CNA). Father Marcelino de Andrés Núñez, a priest of the Legionaries of Christ and former secretary of Marcial Maciel, was arrested in Spain and released subject to restrictions, accused of abusing five underage girls at…
Legatus President Stephen Henley is pictured here speaking at the organization’s 2025 annual conference last month in Naples, Florida. / Credit: Courtesy of Legatus Miami, Fla., Mar 13, 2025 / 07:20 am (CNA). In today’s culture, often hostile to expressions of faith, many Catholics struggle with how to hold true to their values within the…
The United Nations logo is seen at U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 4, 2023. / Credit: DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Mar 13, 2025 / 08:30 am (CNA). The Holy See’s delegation to the United Nations is organizing a March 19 event in conjunction with the 69th Session of the Commission…
St. John Paul II at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 21, 1981. / Credit: L’Osservatore Romano Washington D.C., Mar 13, 2025 / 08:55 am (CNA). According to St. John Paul II’s official biographer, George Weigel, living in Nazi-occupied Poland was “the most formative experience of Karol Wojtyla’s life,” shaping the future…
Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square, Oct. 5, 2016. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA CNA Staff, Mar 13, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). March 13 marks the 12th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis as the 265th successor of St. Peter. Here is a timeline of key events during his papacy:…
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.”…
