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Dr. Catherine Pakaluk and her children. / Credit: Jack D. Hardy Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mar 21, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The problem of below-replacement fertility rates across the globe and possible solutions to reverse the trend will be the subject of the Natal Conference on March 28-29 in Austin, Texas. The conference website sets…
A vintage McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish container with blue and green branding. / Credit: Karolis Kavolelis/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 21, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Few people associate McDonald’s with the season of Lent, but the fast-food chain has played a small but iconic role in Lenten history — at least in the United States. Known primarily…
null / Credi: cinemavision|Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 20, 2025 / 17:05 pm (CNA). The 14,000-ton, five-century-old dome of St. Peter’s Basilica will debut new lighting this coming Easter to further enhance Michelangelo’s magnificent work. According to Vatican News, the new state-of-the-art lighting will ensure more intense and well-distributed light that “will further enhance the…
Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo and president of the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, speaks with “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol on March 18, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 20, 2025 / 17:35 pm (CNA). It’s been 20 years since Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed, initiating the…
A young woman prays the rosary in front of the Planned Parenthood facility on Bleecker Street in Manhattan in an undated photo. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno via the National Catholic Register Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 20, 2025 / 15:40 pm (CNA). Amid an ongoing financial crisis for the organization, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York…
null / Credit: HQuality/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 20, 2025 / 14:35 pm (CNA). “Assisted suicide is a false charity” with alarming consequences that must be rejected, said Bishop David Malloy of Rockford, Illinois, in a pastoral letter in response to the possibility that the Illinois General Assembly could approve the practice. The prelate referred…
Father Mike Depcik, one of the few Deaf priests in the world, signs a Catholic Mass in American Sign Language. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Mike Depcik CNA Staff, Mar 20, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Maryland is hosting the first-ever Eucharistic Congress for the…
The 2023 Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) being held Sept 25-28 outside of Toronto. / Credit: CCCB/CECC Toronto, Canada, Mar 20, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Canada’s Finance Department has avoided providing a clear answer to a written appeal from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) urging the federal…
State capitol in Dover, Delaware. / Credit: Jon Bilous/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 19, 2025 / 17:05 pm (CNA). Officials in the state of Delaware have agreed to temporarily halt enforcement of a law that would require pro-life pregnancy centers to display notices that their facilities do not have licensed medical professionals on staff —…
A general view of the Louisiana State Capitol on April 17, 2020, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. / Credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 19, 2025 / 16:25 pm (CNA). Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, using nitrogen gas for the first time amid Catholic criticism of both…
