Category: Church News

null / Credi: cinemavision/Shutterstock Vatican City, Feb 28, 2025 / 12:50 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s department for the interpretation of Church law has advised against publishing accusations damaging to someone’s reputation, such as abuse accusations, without legitimate and proportional reasons, especially if the person is deceased and therefore cannot defend his or her good name. In a recently published letter, the Dicastery…

null / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 28, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Friday urged liturgists to accompany bishops and the faithful communities of their dioceses with humility and discretion. In a Feb. 28 message sent from Gemelli Hospital to liturgy professors and students of the Anselmianum — a pontifical university…

Pope Francis speaks on the phone during the weekly general audience at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on May 17, 2023. The Holy Father has called a Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza almost every evening since Oct. 9, 2023. / Credit: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Feb 28, 2025 / 12:20…

Deir Mar Musa, also known as the Monastery of St. Moses the Abyssinian, is a centuries-old Christian monastery in al-Nabk north of Damascus, Syria. / Credit: LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images Madrid, Spain, Feb 28, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Trinitarian Order was established in the Middle Ages to free Christian captives held by…

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, pictured on June 19, 2024, introduced a $2 million program to encourage abortionists to come to his state. / Credit: PSpencer Platt/Getty Images CNA Staff, Feb 27, 2025 / 17:20 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news. New Jersey governor to bring abortionists to state…

Pope Francis meets with the Spanish bishops at the Vatican on Nov. 28, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Madrid, Spain, Feb 27, 2025 / 17:50 pm (CNA). The secretary-general and spokesman for the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE, by its Spanish acronym), Bishop Francisco César García Magán, expressed his conviction that the conditions for the resignation…

People pray at the statue of John Paul II outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, on Feb. 27, 2025. / Credit: DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Feb 27, 2025 / 15:40 pm (CNA). Pope Francis showed more signs of recovery on Thursday, but more time is needed…

Historic center of San Francisco de Campeche, capital of the Mexican state of Campeche in the country’s Yucatán Peninsula. / Credit: Ralf Roletschek, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons Puebla, Mexico, Feb 27, 2025 / 16:10 pm (CNA). Following the Feb. 25 decriminalization of abortion for up to 12 weeks of pregnancy in the Mexican state…

null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller|Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 27, 2025 / 13:10 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday night temporarily paused an order from a lower court directing the White House to pay out roughly $2 billion in foreign aid grants to nonprofit organizations. The Department of Justice had filed an appeal with the ​​U.S. Court of Appeals…

Faith & Reason Institute President Robert Royal. / Credit: Courtesy of Faith & Reason Institute Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 27, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Faith & Reason Institute, the first Washington, D.C.-based think tank devoted to encouraging both of these essential elements of human existence.  The…