New UK immigration bill ‘punishes’ refugees, say Catholic bishops and Jesuit Refugee Service — By: Catholic News Agency

Crowds at a town hall meeting on immigration in Los Angeles, January 2014. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Victor Aleman/vida-nueva.com London, England, Feb 17, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The U.K. government is “choosing criminalization over compassion and protection” with its new asylum and immigration bill, according to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and…

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Meet 7 ‘Generation X’ Catholics on their way to sainthood — By: Catholic News Agency

Top row from left to right: Niña Ruiz Abad, Marcelo Henrique Câmara, Sister Cecilia María de la Santa Faz. Bottom row from left to right: Víctor Manuel Schiavoni, Chiara Badano, Rebeca Rocamora. / Credit: Courtesy of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Archdiocese of Florianópolis (Brazil), Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz,…

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Pope Francis spends peaceful second night at hospital, prays for peace at Angelus — By: Catholic News Agency

Left: Banners at Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital. Right: Pope Francis waves from a wheelchair, Feb. 13, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Feb 16, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis spent a peaceful second night at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he remains under medical care for a respiratory infection, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni…

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Catholics hopeful on abortion, health policy after Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS secretary — By: Catholic News Agency

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 16, 2025 / 07:30 am (CNA). Prominent…

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Ecologists at center dedicated to St. Kateri help children integrate faith and nature — By: Catholic News Agency

A statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. / Credit: Saint Kateri Conservation Center CNA Staff, Feb 16, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). When Kathleen Hoenke and William Jacobs aren’t working as professional ecologists by day in their secular jobs, they’re using their backgrounds to serve the Saint Kateri Conservation Center, a national Catholic nonprofit that promotes…

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Cardinal Mendonça delivers pope’s message to artists: Be witnesses to ‘revolutionary vision of the Beatitudes’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça delivers Pope Francis’s homily at a Mass for the Jubilee of Artists in St. Peter’s Basilica, Feb. 16, 2025 / Screenshot / Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Feb 16, 2025 / 04:59 am (CNA). Powerful proclamations to painters, poets, and performers highlighted Pope Francis’s message to artists on Sunday, calling them…

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