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null / Credit: Quisquilia/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2025 / 14:15 pm (CNA). A Montana bill that could compel Catholic priests to break the seal of confession is being criticized by Catholics who say it could eliminate key religious liberty protections. The proposed bill would “eliminate clergy exemption in mandatory reporting of child abuse and…
null / Credit: Inna Dodor/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2025 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Arlington Bishop Michael Burbidge on Wednesday urged Catholic families to offer a “heroic witness” to love by rejecting the practice of in vitro fertilization (IVF), which the prelate called “contrary to justice [and] replete with moral difficulties.” In a pastoral letter released…
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at the USCCB fall plenary assembly Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: USCCB video CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference on Wednesday criticized some of President Donald Trump’s initial executive orders on key issues including immigration…
Afordia speaks to CNA in Rome on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, about being attacked by terrorists in Nigeria. / Credit: Alberto Basile/CNA Vatican City, Jan 22, 2025 / 09:20 am (CNA). A Nigerian woman whose husband was killed by Boko Haram in 2014 has asked for prayers for persecuted Christians and for the terrorist group,…
Pope Francis waves to the crowd in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican during his Wednesday general audience on Jan. 22, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jan 22, 2025 / 09:50 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday continued his yearlong jubilee catechesis series on “Jesus Christ Our Hope,” emphasizing that those…
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 22, 2025 / 10:20 am (CNA). Policies related to immigration, gender ideology, abortion, and in vitro fertilization (IVF) are among the top religious liberty concerns heading into 2025, according to a report…
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn (left) shakes hands with Father Josef Grünwidl, whom Pope Francis appointed as apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Vienna on Jan. 22, 2025. / Credit: Archdiocese of Vienna / Stephan Schönlaub Rome Newsroom, Jan 22, 2025 / 07:04 am (CNA). Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, OP, concluded his term as archbishop of Vienna, Austria,…
Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David receives his cardinal’s hat on Dec. 7, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Madrid, Spain, Jan 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). “Holy Father, you have changed my life again! Shouldn’t you have at least given me advance notice?” With these words the newly created Philippine Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David y…
Book cover/Cardinal Robert Sarah. / Credit: Cantagalli / Paul Badde/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 22, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). “Does God Exist?: The Cry of Man Asking for Salvation” is the title of a new interview book by Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect emeritus of the Congregation — now Dicastery — for Divine Worship…
null / Credit: felipe caparros/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 21, 2025 / 17:30 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order seeking to overturn Supreme Court precedents restricting capital punishment and expand states’ access to lethal drugs used in executions. Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would…
